Darby lane filter beds

6 Long tailed tits
2 Great tit
2 Blue tit
2 Blackbird
2 Robin
8 Reed bunting
1 Goldcrest
4 Coot
5 Magpie
3 Carrion Crow
20 Starling over
1 Cormorant over

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 24th of March 2013 03:17:49 PM

Waste land along side Seaman way

2 Skylark
6 Jackdaw
2 Magpie

Amberswood lake

4 Mallard
2 Tufted Duck
2 Great crested grebe
2 Coot
3 Moorhen
2 Mute swan
6 Longtailed tit
1 Great tit
3 Robin
2 Goldfinch
1 Buzzard over

Oystercatcher on the island at Hindley Hall Golf Course lake early p.m. today

3 buzzards soaring above town centre 1500 today.

Darby Lane Filter Beds 4pm-430pm

1 Moorhen
1 Coot
2 Mallard
8 Magpie
22 Woodpigeon over
8 Starling over
2 Carrion Crow over


1 Mistle Thrush
8 Reedbunting
2 Robin
1 Great Tit
1 Coal Tit
1 Blue tit
3 Longtailed Tits

Darby Lane Filter beds
1 cormerant over
56 Woodpigeon over
4 Moorhen and 2 coot on ponds
5 Robin fighting over food
6 Reed buntings
3 Long tailed tits

Amberswood Lake 5.30pm-6.30pm

9 Canada geese over
10 Tufted Duck
12Mallard
4 Great crested grebe Displaying
2 Moorhen

Darby lane filter beds 4pm-5pm
30 Starling in adjacent field
6 Magpie
1 Moorhen
2 Carrion crow
22 Woodpigoen

Feeders
2 Great tit
2 Robins
2 Reedbunting

St. Peter's Church
1 pied wagtail in grounds
30 Carrion crow over

Darby lane filter beds 11am-1230pm

Kestrel hunting along ponds
Buzzard being mobbed by two carrion crows over
4 Longtailed tits
2 great tits
1 coot

Farm fields adjacent to filter beds
2 Mistle thrushes
20 magpie

Lone pied wagtail looking for food , tesco car park 0830.

Darby lane filter beds 1pm-3pm

24 Blackheaded gull over
28 carrion crow over
2 Canada geese over
4 Magpies
2 coot on ponds
2 Blue tits
3 Great tits
2 Robins
4 Longtailed tits
7 Reed bunting

Darby lane filter beds 12pm-1pm
11 starling
2 Mistle thrushes on over head wires
1 comerant over
2 coots on water inside compound
2 Carrion crow
2 Magpie
1 blackbird
2 great tit
2 Reedbunting
8 Longtailed tits on feeders.

Gary Ingram wrote:

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I've heard them in the trees alone the railway line Dave,but despite sounding really close I've never had the privilege of seeing them.

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also on the park side of the bridge, so the territory seems quite large.

I've heard them in the trees alone the railway line Dave,but despite sounding really close I've never had the privilege of seeing them.

Tawny owl calling from trees,top of seaman way 2100 tonight.

Darby Lane Filter beds.

1 lonely Coot
2 Robins
6 Magpie
2 Blackbird
2 Great tit
2 Blue tit
2 longtailed tits
3 housesparrow
6 Reedbunting
7 woodpigeon over
38 Carrion crow over

Woodland surrounding iron railway bridge 1pm-1.45pm
Goldfinch .......2
Chaffinch.......2
Bullfinch.......1
Blackbirds........4
Treecreeper.......2

Darby Lane Filter beds 11.30-12.30
Most of the snow now cleared by last nights rain
Blackheaded gull ......4 over.
Starling .......26 over
Magpie ......4
Carrion crow......2
Robin........1
Blackbird.......2
Coot....1
Moorhen........1
Great tit........2
Longtailed tit.........6
Coal tit........1
Willow tit...........1

1 hungry looking pied wagtail feeding on some food that had been dropped, tesco car park 1400.

Darby Lane filter beds.
4 Reedbuntings exposed due to snow flattening the tall reeds
2 Moorhen
1 Robin
2 Blue tits
6 Longtailed tits
6 Fieldfare over

Darby lane filter beds.

Path leading up to Filter beds
Pied Wagtail................3

Farmers Fields along side of Filter beds
Starling..........6
Mistlethrush......8
Redwing............2
Blackheaded gull.......22
Woodpigeon............26
Magpie......5
Carrion Crow........2
Blackbird..........2

Filter beds
Reedbunting...........6
Chaffinch.........2
Goldfinch.........5
Bullfinch..........3
Great tit.....2
Blue tit.......1
Robin.........1

Darby lane filter beds last half hour before dark.
Very Quiet

Long tailed tit............8
Reed bunting...........2
Moorhen.............2
Wood pigeon..........20 over

Darby Lane Filter beds this afternoon in drizzling rain

Carrion Crow.......6
Magpie......9
Moorhen......2
Coot......2
Wood pigeon.....6
Blackbird........4
Blue tit....2
Great tit....2
Long tailed tit......4
Robin.....1
Reed bunting......2
Black headed gull.........20 over.

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 8th of January 2013 12:02:22 AM

Barn owl hunting both sides of hall lane 2215 last night.

Darby lane filter beds. 2pm-3pm
3 Moorhen
1 Coot
1 Magpie
3 Crow
3 Black headed gull
8 Starlings

Very Quiet

Darby Lane Filter beds 11am-1pm Today

50 Blackheaded Gulls
18 Starlings
2 Goldfinch
6 Linnets
2 Greenfinch
8 Magpie
4 Carrion Crow
4 Field fare
6 Blackbirds
4 Mistlethrush
5 Long-tailed tits
2 Blue tits
1 Great tit
2 Water hen
2 Buzzard
2 Robin
1 Kingfisher near waterfall.

Beautiful crisp sunny day.

2 meadow pipits
1 pied wagtail
over garden while cutting the grass this afternoon.

Filter beds off Darby Lane 3.30pm-5pm

120 wood pigeon over
3 Crows
1 Jackdaw
25 Black headed gull
2 Jays
8 Magpie
2 Robin
3 Blackbirds
3 Water hens

Filter beds off Darby Lane 4pm -4.30p

Blackcap 2f 1m
Goldfinch 12
Jay 2
Great tit 1
Long-tailed tit 3
Willow Warbler 1
Mistle thrush 3
Robin 2


-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 23rd of September 2012 06:22:33 PM

2 flocks off mistle thrush, 15 and 3.
2 grey wagtail.
1 sparrowhawk
all flying over the garden 1730- 1900 tonight.

3 buzzards soaring high over my garden 1130 today,

4 ravens very vocal flying towards wigan noon today.

Saturday 17 March 2012

A Grey Heron was hunting right beside the A577 (Manchester Road) in the reedy pool opposite Seaman Way, late morning.

3 cold , hungry and fluffed up pied wagtails standing about waiting for tesco to open 730 this morning.

Barn owl flew across hall lane, just north of the golf course 1430 this afternoon.

Red Kite showing well circling low around fìelds by the railway lines at Jacks Lane/Hart Common at the border of Hindley and Westhought at 12:30 today.

Info thanks to Andy Makin

100+ gulls feeding in newly ploughed fields either side of hall lane between the church and the golf course.

This morning

Sussex Close
1 Chiffchaff in partial song

Bedford Gardens
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker


Cheers Jimmy

Top of hall lane this morning sad to see a road kill yellowhammer.

A Blackcap with aberrant song is present at Hindley Deep Pits and well worth a visit by anybody with decent sound recording equipment.

When I first heard it yesterday I doubted that it was a bird, thinking somebody was doing something like stripping cable for scrap (don't really know why I thought that, but the road there can be a fly-tipping hotspot). It basically sounded like a loud Wood Warbler with it's batteries nearly run-out. A loud, stuttering series of clipped notes (each individual note quite finch-like), delivered very slowly, with a slight wavering flourish.
It basically had me baffled and I thought it most likely an abberant song or an escaped cagebird. I initially thought it was a finch, until a brief flight view, when it did look like a Blackcap. The closest I could find on the internet last night was aberrant Garden Warbler song.
This morning it was still singing and eventually it did so completely in the open, high on an Alder. As it sang it was noticeably quivering in the manner of a singing Wood Warbler. Before I had seen it properly , a couple of times it flew between song posts in the woodland edge while making a high-pitched 'schreep' call, which I don't recall hearing from a Blackcap previously. This morning at close range, at the end of the song-phrase there was a short very quiet twittering jumble of sweeter notes.

From Ladies Lane, Hindley take the unadopted Highfield Rd opp Hindley Railway Station. Don't drive much beyond the houses due to extremely bad pot-holes further down the track. Go past a signposted public footpath on the left, then where a cornfield starts on the right, the bird has frequented the woodland edge on the left (opposite a green 'No Tipping' sign on a timber power cable pole).

It would be interesting to find out whether this bird develops a more regular song if it remains there.

12th June.

Several pairs of Skylarks nesting in short sward fields of grain crops - adults seen carrying food. Also a male Linnet with 2 juveniles along the edge of a field of rape seed. Swallows nesting in local farms.

Cheers,

Bill.

Top of hall lane after golf club,quick first visit,20.00 21.30 on well marked public footpaths

whitethroat,grey heron,yellow hammer,crows,kestrel,partridge calling,willow warbler,
garden birds,nice spot of arable land.

cheers geoff

Sparrowhawk circling above hindley [ almost buzzard like riding the thermals ] 3rd afternoon on the trot.

After months of trying to get goldfinches to feed on our nyjer seed, yesterday was jackpot day a pair fed on and off all day.

Oystercatcher calling as it flew northwest over hindley town football ground in the dark 5 15 am today.

Green woodpecker observed calling fom trees next to liverpool road near hospice. great spotted heard drumming in same trees.

Four buzzards from my garden 1345 today whilst soaking up the sun. one very pale undersides soaring at about 200 feet, the other 3 very high and soaring and at times almost coming together. could here them calling also.

Lesser Whitethroat singing today in hedgerows nr farms at Scowcroft, south end of Maple Avenue