Also this morning:

2 Kingfisher

Juvenile Redstart still present in east bay bushes at 11:08 this morning. Also present, Willow Tit, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Snipe and 30 Lapwing.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This morning 9.30 to 11.15:

Common Sandpiper 3
Common Snipe 2
Little Ringed Plover 1 juvenile
Kestrel 1
Sparrowhawk 1

Adult and juvenile Peregrine plus 2 Common Sandpiper and 2 Snipe present up to 6pm today.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

One hour this morning up to 9.15. Drizzly.

Kestrel...1 low over willows, first I've seen here for a bit.
Sedge Warblers...2 showing well in the front of willows and surprised me by dropping down onto the mud to feed?
Common Sandpiper...2
Common Redstart...1 still in hedge
Common Snipe...3
Common Tern...1 fishing
Pied Wagtail...6 including 3 juvs.
Good numbers of young Blue Tit in willows, with Great Tits as well
Swift...4

-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 2nd of August 2014 10:13:01 AM

Up to 8:30 this evening:

Single Black-tailed Godwit still present
2 Common Sandpipers
4 Snipe

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This aft in the rain:

Black-tailed Godwit 1
Common Sandpiper 1
Common Snipe 4
Common Tern 2
Kestrel 1
House Martin 30 dropped down low over the water during a downpour

This afternoon 2pm till 4pm:

Common Sandpiper 2
Redshank 1
Common Snipe 3
Sparrowhawk 1
Buzzard 1
Common Tern 2

plus usual

Two Common Sandpiper present this afternoon.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This evening up to 8.30, part of the time with Steve.

Juvenile Redstart...1 Proved elusive but eventually seen after Steve picked up the call. Thanks to the finder Simon, as
a Rumworth tick for me.
In the same footpath hedge... at least 12 Great Tit; mainly juveniles passing through, and a Wren.
Common Sandpiper...2 feeding together on my arrival.
Lesser Black-backed Gulls... juveniles still loafing about.
Pied Wagtail 4 including 2 very young juveniles.





-- Edited by keith mills on Tuesday 29th of July 2014 09:16:18 PM

Juvenile Redstart still present in the hedge alongside the footpath off Beaumont Road at 3:45 today.

Also present, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Snipe, 23 Lapwing.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This evening 1 hour up to 7.40:

Sedge Warbler...2 close views.
Common Sandpiper....1
Little Ringed Plover....1 Adult.
Lesser Black-backed Gulls ...still 12+ juveniles about.
Pied Wagtail...6 including 1 Juvenile.
Common Terns...3 Fishing
Circa 50 Hirundines, usually high up and including a few House Martins.

This morning:

Common Sandpiper 1
Common Tern 3

plus what appears to be a Brilliant Emerald Dragonfly

Yesterday evening a juvenile Redstart and 3 Willow Warblers were in the hedge that runs down from Beaumont Road.

Single Common Sandpiper present today.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

Short shift up to 3.15 today.
Green Sandpiper.....1 Still where Steve found it, this am.
Lesser Black-backed Gulls....15 juveniles ensconced on south island with 1 adult
on the east shore.
Otherwise a quiet time of day.

This morning 11 till 12.30:

Green Sandpiper on southern mud margins

plus usual

0ne hour up to 6.50pm this evening ...hot with a little breeze.

Yellow Wagtail...1
More good luck for me, as I was leaving!...a bright yellow bird flashed out of the wheat crop, to perch atop a hawthorn
by the path for enough time to get my scope up and on it! Flew back across me.
Pied Wagtail...8 including 2 juvs.
Common Snipe...2 My first for sometime here: feeding out in sun
Common Sandpiper...2 Good views and together.
Little Ringed Plover...3 including 1 juv.
Lesser Black-backed Gulls 11 juveniles counted. Hanging around on arrival but later drifting east.
Grey Heron ...2
Tufted Duck...brood of 5 seen with female.
House Martins... party of circa 10 often around and on an island.
Reed Bunting...1 fem.
Plenty Lapwing with juvs.
Common Terns...2 fishing.


-- Edited by keith mills on Wednesday 23rd of July 2014 08:43:35 PM

Up to midday today:

Common Sandpiper
3 Little Ringed Plover
2 Snipe
80 Lapwing

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This morning 2 and a half hours up to 10.30:
Fine , hot and still.

Lesser Black-backed Gulls...5 including 4 juveniles.
Jay...1 by shore.
Reed Warbler...2 showing well
Sedge Warbler...2
Goldfinch...1
Common Terns... 3 adults but only 2 begging juveniles showing.
Little Ringed Plover...3
Common Sandpiper...2 Only seen for short time.
Oystercatcher...1
Great Crested Grebe...11 including 5 juv.
Pied Wagtail...3 inc 1 juv.
Lapwing ...flock of c75
Jackdaw ...flock of16
Swallows and Swifts 3 apiece...often drinking in flight
House Martin...1
Tufted Duck... 7 plus broods of 6,5 and 1.
Grey Heron...1 adult.
Grey Partridge... as I was leaving, and just before meeting an arriving Phil Rhodes, I accidentally flushed
a covey. Difficult to count as they went down in cover in a few yards. My count was 3 adults and c7 small
( flying) chicks

Up to 5pm tonight:

Still 2 Dunlin
4 Common Sandpiper
5 Little Ringed Plover
124 Lapwing

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

Late morning today,

2 adult Dunlin
2 Common Sandpiper
5 Little Ringed Plover
100+ Lapwing
Kingfisher
2 Tufted broods, one female with 6 young & the other with 5 young.
10+ Common Terns (3+ Juvs.)
30 Swift
10 Grey Partridge (2 adults & 8 small juveniles).

Today, 8:30 - 10:15am:

2 Common Sandpiper
5 Little Ringed Plover
7 Snipe
100+ Lapwing
Kingfisher
Gadwall with a brood of 3 young

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

Today up to 1.15pm. Fine and breezy.

Common Terns....6 including 3 juveniles being fed.
Common Sandpiper...1
Little Ringed Plover....3 including 1 juvenile
Oystercatcher....3.
Great Crested Grebes...11 including 4 humbugs.
Tufted Duck... brood of 6 now appears halved.
Lapwings....c50
House Sparrows..c30
Grey Heron....1
Lesser Black-backed Gull...1
Swallow...c30
Swift....7
House Martin....1
Pied Wagtail...3
On arrival I was treated to a flotilla of 51 Coots sailing past me!

This morning 10 till 11.30:

Little Ringed Plover 4
Common Sandpiper 1
Common Tern 4 plus 3 juveniles
Kingfisher 1
Linnet 2

3 Common Sandpiper
4 Little Ringed Plover
132 Lapwing

All up to 3:30pm today.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

4 Grey Wagtail in the outflow this morning.

Up to 4:50 today:

Common Sandpiper
2 Little Ringed Plover
42 Lapwing

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This morning:

Mediterranean Gull 1
Common Sandpiper 1
Little Ringed Plover 2
Common Snipe 1
Common Tern 2
Kingfisher 1

plus usual

10am to 12:30pm today:

5 Raven drifting north at 10:34
adult Mediterranean Gull
3 Common Sandpiper
2 Little Ringed Plover
Snipe
43 Lapwing
Brood of 3 Gadwall

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

Two and a half hours, this afternoon, up to 3 o' clock. Fine

Mediterranean Gull...1 An adult, showing well stood on far shore, among a few Black-headed Gulls.
Lesser Black-backed gull...2
Common Tern...1
Grey Wagtail...3 (outflow)
Pied Wagtail...3 including 1 juvenile.
Little Ringed Plover...2
Common Sandpiper....2
Great Crested Grebe...c12 including 5 mainly large juveniles.
Tufted Duck...c7 plus brood of 6.
Grey Heron...1 juvenile
Swift...2
House Martin..2
Swallows...c25 ( most in channel with 9 perched on the gantry
Lapwing...50+ flock
Jackdaw.....70+flock
Greenfinch...1

This morning:

Little Ringed Plover 2
Common Tern 2

plus usual

This morning:

Hobby flew NW at 07:47
Peregrine flew N at 06:00
5 Common Sandpiper
2 Snipe
Adult Mediterranean Gull
Little Ringed Plover

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

Up to 3:45 today:

2 Mediterranean Gull (also present yesterday)
6 Snipe
3 Little Ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This morning in the rain, 10.30 to 11.45:

Common Sandpiper 1
Little Ringed Plover 1
Common Tern 2
Swift 100+
Swallow 100+
Sand Martin 5
House Martin 2

Also, yesterday afternoon, 2 Mediterranean Gulls on south island

-- Edited by Steve Almond on Friday 4th of July 2014 02:10:08 PM

No sign of ruddy shelduck in brief search at midday

After 6 this evening:
The 2 Ruddy Shelduck still present on far side shore, among Black-headed Gulls and Coots.
Usually with heads tucked down.
The one that showed best was a female.
Common Terns...2
Swifts...20+
Swallows...c10
Oystercatcher... 1 predated corpse on island, 4 more active,
and 2 more seen crossing onto Ladybridge estate as I walked home.
Usual numbers of Great Crested Grebes and a few Tufted Duck.
Sedge Warbler...3

Two Ruddy Shelduck present up to 3pm at least.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This morning:

Little Grebe 1
Sedge Warbler 2
Reed Bunting 8
Oystercatcher 10
Lapwing 40
Tufted Duck with 6 young
Common Tern 1

90 minutes this pm up to 3.45 with my scope back working smoothly thanks to Zeiss.
Fine and warm.

Lesser Black-backed Gull..1 This bird very unpopular with the other gulls.
Black-headed Gulls....30+ Including 10 Juvs.
Grey Heron...2 Including 1 Juv.
Common Tern..1
Lapwing...c35 Two Juvs. seen.
Starlings...c50 many Juvs.
Coot...c30 Including Juvs. + small broods(and still sitting bird)
Mallard...Plenty +Juvs.
Oystercatcher...6
Tufted Duck...6 Plus brood of 5
Great Crested Grebe...5
Moorhen...3
Reed Bunting...4
Sedge Warbler...1
Linnet...1
Pied Wagtail...3 Including 1 Juv.
Canada Geese...27
Swift...1
Swallow...2
House Martin...1






-- Edited by keith mills on Thursday 26th of June 2014 04:21:22 PM

This afternoon up to 2pm. Warm and fine.

The Dam and Lock Lane only.
Little Grebe...1... An uncommon sight here this year!
Great Crested Grebe...2 Including one very large humbug.
Mallards...7
Coot... A new family, being a pair + 3 small chicks.
Moorhen...1
Swallows...18 minimum count. around the farms and adjacent land.
House Martin...1
Starlings...c60 including many juvs.
Goldfinch...2
Pied Wagtail...1
Reed Bunting...1
House Sparrows...c20
In a newly cut field off Lock Lane:
Oystercatcher....6 + 3 large juvs.
Skylark...2
Lapwing...2

-- Edited by keith mills on Wednesday 25th of June 2014 02:37:26 PM

Walked round this morning:

Tufted Duck 12
Pochard 1
Common Tern 1
Oystercatcher 10
Lapwing 40
Reed Bunting 10
Reed Warbler 2
Sedge Warbler 2
Buzzard 1
Swallow 40
House Sparrow 30+
Blackcap 1 male
Grey Wagtail 1

This pm, up to 7.45

Still pretty quiet:
Linnet...2
Reed Bunting...2
Pied Wagtail...8 including juveniles.
Lapwing....young seen with one pair in field.
Tufted Duck.. numbers up to at least 17
Swallow...10
Swifts...2
Oystercatcher....8 minimum.

A very pleasant evening up to 7.50....

Reed Warbler...3, great views, all singing.
Sedge Warbler...4
Reed Bunting...9
Pied Wagtail...2
Swallows...2

Nothing new in, on the wader/duck front.
Good to meet Steve and Linda.


-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 7th of June 2014 08:08:53 PM

On arrival at 1600 hours I found c40 Swifts over the Beaumont Road footpath field. These soon thinned out as they dispersed over
adjacent fields , the edge of the Lodge and some over the top of Ladybridge.
There were few Hirundines over the Lodge. Just single figure numbers of House Martins and Swallow, but more of both at Lock Lane.
Great Crested Grebe family intact at the Dam(pair+2 humbugs.) A Large humbug seen on the main Lodge; swimming on its own.
Juveniles of Greenfinch and House Sparrow seen.
Collared Dove...2
Otherwise as previous posts this week.

One hour up to 6pm.
Just a few changes from yesterday's post:
Common Tern ...1 left the channel over the dam in the direction of Lostock Mill Dam.
Grey Wagtail...4... A family and my highest count here .
Pied Wagtail...2
Reed Bunting...1
Great Crested Grebe... 4 adults + 2 large humbugs.
Oystercatcher....7
Tufted Duck...8

This afternoon up to 2.45.
Warm and dull with the odd shower.

Quiet.
Great Spotted Woodpecker(f)...1
Jay...1
Grey Wagtail...1
Pied Wagtail...2
Grey Heron...1
Great Crested Grebe...6
Oystercatcher....5
Tufted Duck...7
Swallows ...c35 mainly over the fields of Buttercups near Lock Lane.
House Martin....2

-- Edited by keith mills on Monday 2nd of June 2014 03:07:35 PM

This evening. A good hour up to 7.10
Cold and overcast.

Great Crested Grebe...3 + 2 large humbugs.
Common Tern...1
Common Whitethroat...1
Linnet...3
Greenfinch..2
Reed Bunting...3
House Martins....100+ this was by far the main Hirundine over the Lodge.
Swallow.... c35
Swifts.... c30
Usual Oystercatchers, and Lapwing in fields.

This evening. 3 hours up to 9.15. Last 90 minutes with Phil Rhodes.
Sunny and still.
Dam:
Buzzard over.
Great Crested Grebe family back to 2 humbugs in tow.
Mistle Thrush having an in flight flutter with a male Chaffinch.
Swallows...6

Lock Lane:

Swallows...12
House Martin...2.. seen to mate by poolside.
Kestrel...1 my first here for a bit. Chased into copse by a Crow.
House Sparrows/ Greenfinch /Chaffinch/ Blue Tit.

Lodge:
Common Whitethroat...1
Swifts...c30
Swallow...c25
Common Tern...4 One settled and 3 passing through.
Reed Bunting...12
Sedge Warbler... 6 minimum
Reed Warbler...2
Grey Heron...1

Phil also had a pair of Gadwall and 2 Sand Martin , but no sign of the single Dunlin he saw yesterday






-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 24th of May 2014 10:03:53 PM

2 Dunlin present at 2:40pm today.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes