220522 am

Cadishead Moss

16 Skylark

22 Swallow

2 Yellow Wagtail

16 House Martin

2 Grey Wagtail

12 Swift

Little Woolden Moss 

1 Little Egret

1 Redshank

1 Curlew

2 Yellow Wagtail

3 Oystercatcher

15 Swift.

Little Woolden Moss LWT this early afternoon:

2 Dunlin

1 Ringed Plover

Pair of Curlew

1 male Yellow Wagtail

And on the Glaze Brook to the west, 2 Little Egrets again though a couple of hundred metres apart this time.

21-5-2022

Chat Moss

2 Oystercatcher

Irlam Moss

1 Lesser Whitethroat in song

1 yellow Wagtail

1 Yellowhammer

27 Starling...  mostly juvenile

2 Grey Partridge

2 Stock Dove

2 Greenfinch...pair

10 Goldfinch

5 Song Thrush....   family party

15 Swift...over west

210522 am

Chat Moss

1 Fieldfare...a tad late for this species!

4 Mistle Thrush

Barton Moss

5 Yellow Wagtail

1 Oystercatcher

14 Skylark

Irlam Moss

1 Lesser Whitethroat in song

6 Song Thrush.

200522 am

Irlam Moss

1 Lesser Whitethroat in song

2 Oystercatcher

1 Grey Partridge

90 Starling

48 Lapwing

Chat Moss

1 Wheatear

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

5 Tufted Duck

1 Wheatear

1 Sedge Warbler in song

2 Shoveler...pair

1 Little Egret

Little Woolden Moss

13 Yellow Wagtail

1 Channel Wagtail

2 Grey Partridge

2 Oystercatcher

32 Lapwing

4 Swallow 

34 Skylark

1 Sand Martin

6 Swift

LWMoss viewed from Little Woolden Hall, 4pm

Very distant Hobby, 2 Buzzard & Raven mobbing them all

190522 am

Irlam Moss

1 Lesser Whitethroat in song

175 Starling...most being Juveniles being fed

2 Yellowhammer

4 Swallow

Chat Moss

17 Lapwing

1 Oystercatcher

2 Yellow Wagtail

Chat Moss

2 Swallow

2 House Martin

30 Stock Dove

14 Lapwing

4 Wheatear

3 Yellowhammer

24 Willow Warbler in song

12 Meadow Pipit

2 Oystercatcher

Barton Moss

1 Yellow Wagtail

24 Lapwing

12 Skylark

20 Stock Dove

2 Chiffchaff in song

am

Chat Moss including a Dragonfly Survey

29 Willow Warbler in song

4 Oystercatcher

1 Quail Calling

1 Sedge Warbler in song

1 Water Rail

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Curlew

1 Redshank

2 Tufted Duck....pair

2 Swift

2 Common Tern

Highlights on Little Woolden Moss LWT this early morning:

2 Common Tern, bringing a fish in to display but quickly harassed by first summer Black-headed Gulls!

Pair of Shoveler

Drake Teal

6 Redshank

1 Curlew

3 Yellow Wagtail

Male Greenland Wheatear

And on the Glaze Brook to the west, two Little Egret (a long way off though!)

Brief am visit

Irlam Moss

1 Lesser Whitethroat in song

Midday short visit

Chat Moss

4 Yellow Wagtail

2 Yellowhammer

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Redshank

2 Yellow Wagtail

2 Teal

2 Common Tern.

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR East 

10 Willow warbler in song

3 Whitethroat       ''       ''

4 Blackcap           ''       ''

2 Chaffinch          ''       ''

4 Reed Bunting    ''       ''

1 Redshank

1 Curlew   (displaying)

7 Meadow Pipit

2 Teal  (pair)

2 Tufted Duck (pair)

Mallard & 9 duckling

2 Oystercatcher  (pair)

2 Common Tern  (pair)

1 Greenland Wheatear....  one at The West End 14/5 was probably also of this race leucorhoa

2 Hobby male & female 1st summer (12-05hrs)

am

Astley Moss BBS for LWT included

1 Treecreeper

18 Reed Bunting

17 Meadow Pipit

15 Willow Warbler

2 Oystercatcher

2 Curlew

1 Cuckoo.

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...brief visit east

1 Curlew

2 Common Tern.

am

Chat Moss

1 Wheatear

20 Stock Dove

1 Oystercatcher

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Common Tern

4 Redshank

8 Oystercatcher

2 Shelduck

2 Wheatear

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Curlew

2 Yellow Wagtail

2 Grey Partridge

Brief Midday Visit

Irlam Moss

1 Wheatear

5 Swallow

Chat Moss

16 Stock Dove

1 Yellow Wagtail

3 Wheatear

am...

Chat Moss

4 Wheatear

18 Lapwing having to re-start their breeding season after a late season ploughing destroyed their nests and young...

26 Stock Dove

3 Yellow Wagtail

12 Willow Warbler in Song

3 Tufted Duck

2 Little Egret

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR East

1 Redshank

1 Curlew

1 Oystercatcher

17 Swift

9 Swallow

25 Stock Dove

1 Hobby perched and being harassed by Meadow Pipit...not quite sure but it appeared as if the Hobby then pounced on one of its tormentors...

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR whilst taking part in a Podcast recording for LWT...start 0500....

1 Quail (possibly 2) calling

1 Marsh Harrier Immature Male in wing Moult....appeared several times during the morning

1 Wood Sandpiper

2 Sedge Warbler in song

2 Grasshopper Warbler in song

5 Whitethroat in song

5 Oystercatcher

3 Redshank

2 Shelduck

2 Common Tern

4 Yellow Wagtail

2 Water Rail

80 Swift

2 Wheatear

3 Tufted Duck

5 House Martin

2 Curlew

1 Whimbrel

8 Ringed Plover dropped in at 1120...left later

110522 a Morning in the rain...

Chat Moss

8 Swallow

9 Willow Warbler in song

3 Wheatear

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Oystercatcher

1 Redshank

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

14 Willow Warbler in song

2 Sedge Warbler in song

3 Redshank

2 Oystercatcher

2 Shelduck...Pair

1 Dunlin

1 Ringed Plover

2 Tufted Duck...pair

2 Gadwall...pair

90 Swift....as the rain finally started to abate these came in first feeding over the treeline then moving over the reserve

1 Wood Sandpiper....worth getting soaked for....

A quick look at LWMoss after the rain,plenty of Swifts feeding over the reserve. Redshsnk,3 Oystercatchers,Curlew,and a couple of Yellow Wagtails.
A cream headed Marsh Harrier hunting over the northern end of the reserve(probably the same bird Pete and I had over Croxtons yesterday).
Spent 10 mins watching a Hobby feeding within a big flock of Swifts, interestingly neither birds seemed interested in the other,presumably enough insects up there to keep the Hobby happy,certainly the Swifts didn't seem at all bothered by its presence and were at time flying within a few feet of it !!!

100522 am

Chat Moss

Field being ploughed...I would say that the Lapwing nests and young I noted last week have been sadly destroyed...never mind the Skylark nests...such late ploughing...sad

11 Skylark

14 Lapwing

3 Yellow Wagtail

4 Wheatear

1 Whinchat male

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

27 Willow Warbler

32 Reed Bunting

2 Sedge Warbler

2 Water Rail

2 Curlew

3 Redshank

1 Turnstone

1 Ringed Plover

3 Oystercatcher

6 Whitethroat

18 Meadow pipit

4 Yellow Wagtail

4 Gadwall

24 Swift

3 Teal

1 Quail calling....I can't recall ever having one so early on the moss...

Early afternoon on Little Woolden Moss LWT Reserve saw two Marsh Harriers, one an adult female and another more distant and brief bird either female or immature. Also, a pair of Yellow Wagtail on the reserve and more in the fields surrounding and c50 Swift.

2 Yellow Wagtails just south of Moss Lane, Astley Moss this morning whilst another was around Rindle, Astley Moss, along with a flock of 39 Stock Dove and in fields behind Rindle Wood a large congregation of corvids contained 54 Rooks, 63 Crows and 80+ Jackdaw.

060522 am Brief Visit

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR East

1 Water Rail

3 Swallow

1 Curlew 

1 Yellow Wagtail

Irlam Moss

1 Yellow Wagtail

3 Yellowhammer

2 Wheatear

4 Song Thrush

2 Grey Partridge.

An hour round the west end of Little Woolden Moss this morning was quite fruitful.
9 Whimbrel on one of the pools were unfortunately flushed by a couple of LWT workers,but may have gone down in nearby fields.
A Hobby hunting over the northern edge of the moss,a Yellow Wagtail,3 Redshank,6 Oystercatchers and a calling Greenshank were the other highlights.

Little Woolden Moss LWT West Pools late morning / early afternoon

16 Whimbrel briefly landed on The West Pools at 11-05hrs. before flying off northwest

1 Grasshopper Warbler (reeling)

6 Reed Bunting

1 Wheatear (female)

1 Redshank

2 Yellow Wagtail F38E

3 Whitethroat      in song

2 Blackcap           ''     ''

6 Willow Warbler  ''     ''

1 Yellowhammer  ''     ''

2 Oystercatcher

4 Meadow Pipit

4 linnet

Fairly brief visit to Little Woolden Moss LWT west this morning:

1 Greenshank briefly

1 (Tundra) Ringed Plover

2 Redshank

1 singing Yellowhammer

c6 Yellow Wagtails flying around the fields to the west including a singing male

A pair of Reed Bunting with the male doing a mightily impressive display ‘dance’ on the bare peat completely ‘ruffled up’, something I don’t recall watching before. The female of the pair was complete with a metal BTO ring too.

050522 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Redshank

1 Water Rail

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Cuckoo

1 Whinchat...Male

1 Wheatear...Female

....midday with a U3A Group

3 Hobby

1 Marsh Harrier which had a tussle with 2 Buzzard 

2 Oystercatcher

1 Curlew. 

040522 am

Chat Moss

1 Arctic Tern

32 Willow Warbler in song

1 Reed Warbler in song

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Wheatear

1 Grey Partridge

2 Oystercatcher

1 Curlew

2 Raven

3 Yellowhammer

030522 

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

8 Swallow

10 Sand Martin

2 Ringed Plover

1 Dunlin

3 Oystercatcher

2 Yellow Wagtail

3 Grasshopper Warbler

1 Curlew

1 Redshank

16 Linnet

Cadishead Moss

1 Ring Ouzel (originally found by Terry Egan and Friends).

John Williams wrote:

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12.00-16.30 Little Woolden Moss NR

2 Common Terns,

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 One bird probably colour flagged and ringed in a North Wales?

020522 am

Little Woolden Moss

42 Lapwing

2 Grey Partridge

1 Wheatear

33 Skylark

13 Yellow Wagtail

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Redshank

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Water Rail

1 Wheatear

1 Whinchat...Male

1 Curlew

010522 am

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Grasshopper Warbler

33 Reed Bunting

29 Meadow Pipit

54 Willow Warbler

7 Tufted Duck

15 Swallow

2 Whimbrel

2 Curlew

7 Oystercatcher

1 Water Rail

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Little Egret

Mon 2nd May - PM visit to Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

• Willow Warbler - loads, all over the place
• Whitethroat
• Yellow Wagtail
• Teal - 2 pairs (in different spots)
• Gadwall - just a male
• Tufted Duck - 2 pairs (in the same spot)
• Redshank
• Oystercatcher - several

Usual Mallard and Canada Geese - at least one brood of goslings and several on eggs (presumably from the way they were sitting)

No raptors - Buzzard on a fence from Twelve Yards Rd but on the nature reserve absolutely nowt

300422 midday brief visit...

Irlam Moss

2 Yellowhammer

1 Swallow

2 Yellow Wagtail

18 Lapwing

1 Sparrowhawk male....with a Lapwing chick....the circle of life goes on...

Monday 2nd May 2022.

New Moss Wood Cadishead - north along Moss Road - through gate south of Little Woolden Moss NR - took anti-clockwise perimeter path - exit gate to north on to Little Woolden Moss - past Red House Farm and Whitegate Farm - left following Moss Lane - south along Glazebrook Trail - along Glaze Brook - entered Little Woolden Moss to the West - followed perimeter path to exit via south gate and return back to New Moss Wood Cadishead.

Nice to chat with Dave Steel (and thanks for tip off about Whinchat!). Sightings included:

Whinchat (2) Both stunning males. One on Little Woolden Moss NR near northern gate; and the other in field just off the Glazebrook trail just south of Moss Lane.
Yellow Wagtail (3)
Whitethroat (5)
Willow Warbler (12)
Chiffchaff (2)
Yellowhammer (1)
Mistle Thrush (2)
Tufted Duck (10)
Skylark (7)
Lapwing (20)
Reed Bunting (1)
Wren (2)
Pied Wagtail (3)
Buzzard (2)
Swallow (4) First of the year for me!
Oystercatcher (5)
Grey Heron (1)

05.30am -13.30.

Highlights from around the mosslands.

Fields South of Moss Lane 

Wheatear (m)

Meadow pipit 2.

Astley moss

Willow tit

Rook 2

Nuthatch 

Croxdens peat works and pools

Curlew 2

Redshank 2

Sparrowhawk (m)

Little Woolden moss NR

Redshank 3

Gadwall 3

Oystercatcher 2

Linnets 5

Yellowhammer 4

House Martin 3

Swift 2

 Plenty of warblers around including Willow, Chiffchaff,  Whitethroat and a couple of Blackcaps 

-- Edited by Dave Thacker on Sunday 1st of May 2022 07:12:46 PM

Great Woolden Moss SJ6894 Carbon Landscape Breeding Bird Survey Highlights...

1 Sedge Warbler in song

1 Stonechat

6 Skylark

1 Marsh Harrier

5 Yellow Wagtail

1 Little Egret  (R.Glaze)

3 Whitethroat in song

1 Chiffchaff in song

1 Corn Bunting in song  (Cheshire side of this 1KM square)

4 Blackcap in song