240622 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

22 Willow Warbler

28 Swift

15 Meadow Pipit

1 Grasshopper Warbler

1 Hobby

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Curlew

3 Oystercatcher

12 Sand Martin

3 Swallow

220622 am

Little Woolden Moss

15 Willow Warbler

13 Reed Bunting

70 Lapwing

2 Grey Partridge

1 Yellow Wagtail

26 Meadow Pipit

3 Oystercatcher

1 Grasshopper Warbler Reeling

210622...Longest Day...

Chat Moss

14 Yellow Wagtail

1 Channel Wagtail

2 Willow Tit

1 Grey Partridge

11 Swallow

13 Skylark

200622 am...sightings during a Carbon Landscape Dragonfly Survey...

Chat Moss

19 Willow Warbler

1 Sedge Warbler

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Green Sandpiper....return migration already!

47 Lapwing

2 Swallow

1 Oystercatcher.

190622 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

15 Willow Warbler

18 Reed Bunting

2 Water Rail

22 Lapwing

2 Sedge Warbler

90 Swift

2 Oystercatcher

2 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier

16 Meadow Pipit.

180622 Midday Brief Visit

Chat Moss

22 Lapwing

34 Swift

9 Swallow

7 Willow Warbler

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Yellowhammer.

170622 am....Barton Moss before PfE condemns it to Warehouse land....(PfE = Planning for (so called) 'Everyone'....but Nature)....

1 Yellowhammer in song

1 Sedge Warbler in song

3 Whitethroat in song

36 Skylark

5 Yellow Wagtail

5 Reed Bunting

10 House Martin...6 nests noted

23 Swallow

Late post for yesterday.
Adult Mediterranean Gull in field 62 on Chat Moss yesterday afternoon.

160622 am

Irlam Moss

19 Swallow

4 House Martin

1 Hobby

1 Oystercatcher

33 Lapwing

Chat Moss

1 Tawny Owl

17 Willow Warbler

2 Sedge Warbler

41 Lapwing

4 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

14 Lapwing... post breeding flock adults & juveniles 

2 Oystercatcher

5 Whitethroat

15 Willow Warbler... 10 males in song others contact calling

2 Blackcap in song

7 Reed Bunting in song

12 Meadow Pipit...inc. 2 displaying

7 Pied Wagtail 

2 Yellow Wagtail

10 Linnet

2 Swallow

2 Chaffinch in song

1 Female Marsh Harrier quartering The Middle Pools...flew west at 10-15hrs.

1 Curlew

150622 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

21 Willow Warbler

16 Lapwing

10 Reed Bunting

2 Sedge Warbler in song

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Marsh Harrier

17 Swift

140622 brief am visit

Chat Moss

17 Willow Warbler

2 Sedge Warbler

1 Reed Warbler

8 Grey Heron

1 Marsh Harrier

130622 0855-1300

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

21 Willow Warbler

59 Swift

10 Reed Bunting

1 Marsh Harrier

3 Oystercatcher

14 Linnet

120622 0940-1645...day two of BeWilder Cabaret in New Moss Wood...with a pre-walk on Cadishead Moss

Cadishead Moss

21 Skylark

3 Yellow Wagtail

4 Swift

1 Mediterranean Gull

4 Swallow

More images of the performers whose aim was to be part of/interact with nature in order to engage a wider audience who might then equate the fact that if we bring people to nature from a performance point of view...we might/hope that more people engage and recognise the true worth of wildlife....and it survival being the survival of us all...

110622 1000-1745...as part of the LWT 'BeWilder' Cabaret...in New Moss Wood...it was another of those volunteer type things that the Moss tends to 'ask' me to do....

11 Wren

3 Song Thrush in song

170 Swift over adjacent field of Silage being cut (YUK for Farmland Bird Survival) which save  for an all but brief period in being cut releases insect food....hardly a crop like a Hay Meadow which gives and gives...the irony is this some of these silage cuts are seemingly referred to as 'Haylage' ...is this a sop term used to suggest its good for nature...who knows....but in my opinion...it 'ain't'

70 Lesser Black Back Gulls also harvesting insects 

2 Bullfinch

2 Swallow

2 Raven

100622 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

36 Meadow Pipit

38 Reed Bunting

19 Linnet

18 Lapwing

2 Water Rail

18 Willow Warbler

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Channel Wagtail

2 Tufted Duck

2 Oystercatcher

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Redshank

080622 am

Chat Moss

28 Willow Warbler

2 Sedge Warbler

11 House Martin

1 Quail calling

1 Yellowhammer

Barton Moss

7 Swift

7 Skylark.

070622

Little Woolden Moss Brief Midday Visit

3 Redshank

1 Curlew

3 Oystercatcher

8 Lapwing.

060622 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

14 Willow Warbler

13 Meadow Pipit

1 Sparrowhawk (male) with prey

1 Tawny Owl

8 Swift

Little Woolden Moss

16 Yellow Wagtail...down on last year

19 Skylark

1 Curlew

2 Oystercatcher

4 Yellowhammer

9 Swallow.

050622 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

28 Willow Warbler

5 Swallow

2 House Martin

2 Sand Martin

13 Reed Bunting

2 Sedge Warbler

2 Yellow Wagtail

18 Linnet

15 Meadow Pipit

1 Water Rail

1 Grasshopper Warbler

23 Swift

1 Marsh Harrier

040622 Brief am visit

Chat Moss

3 Yellow Wagtail

9 Skylark

1 Marsh Harrier

Irlam Moss

5 Swallow

18 Lapwing

1 Yellow Wagtail

030622 Mid Morn Visit

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

6 Swift

2 Tufted Duck

4 Oystercatcher

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Curlew

9 Willow Warbler

1 Hobby...appeared @ 1220...took a few Dragonfly over east pools then left heading west.

Friday 03/06/2022 pm Little Woolden Moss LWTNR, of note...

• Sanderling x1 - in the pools at the west end - pointed out to me (thank you)
• Dunlin x1 - with the Sanderling - almost behaving like a pair
• Redshank x2
• Oystercatcher x2 + 2 young - large chicks but not yet fledged - easy to see from the path along the west end
• Gadwall x4 +1 in the Glaze Brook - may have been more - too busy looking at the waders
• Canada Geese - one paid had 7 goslings, growing nicely
• Marsh Harrier - female pale head
• Buzzard
• Kestrel
• Swallows - several
• Yellow Wagtail x2 (one of which must have been male judging by how yellow it was - visible a long way away across the reserve)
• Willow Warbler - loads, some nicely visible
• Whitethroat - singing and showing nicely on Astley Road between fields 62 & 63

Is it just me and where/when I've been to various places, but are there less House Martins around than usual - not just the Mosses but everywhere. Swift, Swallows and Sand Martins I've seen loads of, but hardly any House Martins.

Catch Up 020622

Chat Moss am prior to a Carbon Landscape Dragonfly Survey

2 Sedge Warbler in song

1 Reed Warbler in song

23 Willow Warbler in song

1 Little Egret

47 Stock Dove

7 Swallow.

Catch up  010622 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

5 Redshank

60 Swift

1 Marsh Harrier....appeared to have pale wing panels...flew west 0930

1 Marsh Harrier...with wing moult noted @ 1155

15 Reed Bunting

17 Meadow Pipit

3 Sedge Warbler

6 Oystercatcher

1  Quail...calling

2 Curlew

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Snipe

9 Willow Warbler in song

Main highlights from this afternoon on Little Woolden Moss:

Breeding plumaged Sanderling with a Dunlin on the western pools

Adult female Marsh Harrier hunting over the moss

9 Gadwall

2 Curlew

2 Redshank

Oystercatcher with young

3 Yellow Wagtail

Short visit to the west side of little woolden moss.

Marsh Harrier - female over fields

Common Tern - 2 on posts

Yellow Wagtail - 2 females

Oystercatcher

Thursday 2nd June 2022: 10:00 - 14:30 hrs.
West of Little Woolden Moss NR - north along River Glaze following Salford Trail - right at Moss Lane - past Whitegate Farm and Red House Farm - through northern gate back on to Little Woolden Moss NR - followed perimeter path clockwise to return

Hobby (1)
Peregrine (1)
Buzzard (3)
Kestrel (1)
Curlew (2)
Yellow Wagtail (1)
Pied Wagtail (5) - including 3 juveniles
Lapwing (24)
Whitethroat (1)
Reed Bunting (3)
Yellowhammer (1)
Linnet (3)
Swallows (4)
Swift (2)
House Martin (1)
Skylark (5)
Willow Warbler (4)
Chiffchaff (1)
Oystercatcher (4)
Song Thrush (2)
Tufted Duck (4)
Canada Geese (2 adults with 9 chicks)
Moorhen (2 adults with 2 chicks)

Great Woolden Moss Carbon landscape B B Survey 1 KM SQ SJ 6894 Straddling Gtr. Manchester / Cheshire

Highlights...

2 Oystercatcher

2 Redshank

1 Curlew

5 Whitethroat

1 Willow Warbler

10 Linnet

8 Lapwing

27 Swift

11 Skylark

6 Pied Wagtail

4 Chaffinch

3 Yellow Wagtail  (male)

1 Blackcap

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

1 Blackcap

310522...Little Woolden Moss LWTNR am

21 Willow Warbler

11 Reed Bunting

5 Oystercatcher

22 Swift

4 Sand Martin

3 Redshank

6 Yellow Wagtail

1 Shoveler...Male

1 Sanderling.

Catch up...270522 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

65 Swift

23 Linnet

2 Redshank

1 Quail Calling

1 family of Oystercatcher...2 Adult....2 Young

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Peregrine

1 Curlew

5 Swallow

1 Little Egret

Glaze Area

1 Tree Sparrow

4 Swallow

2 Sand Martin

1 Little Egret hunting in the shallows of the Glaze...

Catch up....260522 am

Irlam Moss

300 Starling

8 Swallow

2 Yellow Wagtail

Chat Moss

3 Oystercatcher

12 Skylark

1 Sedge Warbler in song

2 Redshank

7 Swift

27 Willow Warbler in song

12 Meadow Pipit

1 Curlew...still appears to be trying to breed in an area that could be suitable...if this area had been valued and not simply neglected allowing it to suffer far too much disturbance...no wonder Curlew are in freefall decline...

Cadishead Moss Carbon Landscape B B Survey 1KM SJ 6994   28-5-2022

Sadly this square is now dominated by Turf and so called ''improved grass'', treated with herbicides, pesticides and fast becoming widespread throughout.

This has had a devastating effect on the birdlife, especially the traditional  farmland birds, which just don't exist here anymore. Where are the perimeters 

for the wildflowers and bees ?. YOU WON'T SEE THIS ON COUNTRYFILE. If this is the future of modern farming there has to be a limit to this.

Birds seen here on and around the farmland in reduced numbers, but NOT including Little Woolden Moss LWTNR, which part of this 1KM square covers....

2 Willow Warbler

3 Blackcap

4 Whitethroat

4 Magpie

6 Carrion Crow

3 Wren

4 Blackbird

1 Song Thrush

1 Pied Wagtail

19 Woodpigeon

4 Collared Dove

6 Goldfinch

10 House Sparrow

4 Swift

2 Swallow

1 Blue Tit

1 Great Tit

4 Robin

1 Kesttrel

2 Buzzard

2 Long Tailed Tit

250522 am

Irlam Moss

6 Song Thrush

3 Oystercatcher

400 Starling...Good Numbers of Young

Chat Moss

4 Swift

1 Swallow

3 Yellow Wagtail

48 Stock Dove

22 Lapwing

2 Yellowhammer

1 Redshank

1 Wheatear.

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR East

24 Meadow Pipit

1 Oystercatcher

2 Curlew

1 Redshank

2 Yellow Wagtail

240522 Carbon Landscape BBS Little Woolden Moss (west) area included

9 Reed Bunting

9 Meadow Pipit

8 Lapwing

1 Sedge Warbler in song

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Redshank

4 Gadwall

2 Oystercatcher

1 Channel Wagtail...a second bird to the one noted in the east on the 23rd 

11 Swift

230522 Carbon Landscape BBS Little Woolden Moss area included

27 Willow Warbler in song

31 Meadow pipit

26 Linnet

15 Reed Bunting

1 Wheatear

1 Hobby...viewed from a distance

1 Sedge Warbler in song

2 Curlew

2 Redshank

4 Yellow Wagtail

1 Channel Wagtail

Fairly brief visit to Little Woolden Moss early to mid afternoon:

2 Dunlin

1 Ringed Plover 

1 Redshank

1 Curlew

3 Yellow Wagtail

Pair of Shoveler

1 Raven over mobbed by Oystercatcher and Lapwing 

240 Swift feeding over the moss at various altitudes, also 60 House Martin

The pair of Little Egrets still on the Glaze Brook to the west.