Tuesday 11 August 2009 late afternoon Horrock's Flash:
and a flock of 12 ducks that I picked up coming in head-on, high from the north-east. I tracked them for ages thinking they might be something good. Turned out they were Mallard
Never mind Rob something will turn up soon, just one more bird to beat last years list,what will it be
keep birding
Rob Thorpe said
Tue Aug 11 6:49 PM, 2009
Tuesday 11 August 2009 late afternoon Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper 3 Snipe 1 Kingfisher (Platt Bridge) and a flock of 12 ducks that I picked up coming in head-on, high from the north-east. I tracked them for ages thinking they might be something good. Turned out they were Mallard
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Tuesday 11th of August 2009 06:51:48 PM
Rob Thorpe said
Tue Aug 11 12:47 AM, 2009
Monday 10 August 2009 evening
Horrock's Flash: 1 Green Sandpiper 5 Snipe 1 Kingfisher 1 Swift (1st for a few days) 1 Stock Dove
Scotman's Flash (20:45): 2000+ Black-headed Gull 13 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and the gulls where still pouring in as I left just before 21:00.
Rob Thorpe said
Sun Aug 9 11:35 AM, 2009
Sunday 09 August 2009
a Garganey (female, or possibly juv) on Horrock's Flash this morning.
Rob Thorpe said
Sat Aug 8 4:46 PM, 2009
Saturday 08 August 2009 morning Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper Common Sandpiper (heard) 3 Snipe 1 male Sparrowhawk carrying prey.
Other things of interest were a Kingfisher @ Pearson's Flash and 2 Grey Wagtails over Rainford's tip.
I noticed quite a fee Coal Tits around this morning, also lots of warblers singing: Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat and Reed Warbler.
Geoff Hargreaves said
Sat Aug 8 3:17 PM, 2009
Horrocks front pool only,Mid morning visit great crested + chicks common tern+ chicks 1 juv ringed plover 1 common sandpiper 1 snipe plus the usual suspects
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Friday 7th of August 2009 09:28:40 PM
Rob Thorpe said
Sat Aug 1 7:19 PM, 2009
Saturday 01 August 2009 afternoon Horrock's Flash:
No jessies today, in fact the only things of note were 2 Green Sandpipers and a Kingfisher.
Rob Thorpe said
Fri Jul 31 7:31 PM, 2009
Steve Suttill wrote:
Rob Thorpe wrote:
and an odd looking falcon wearing jessies,
I think you mean "jesses", Rob. Jessies are people from the South of England - or something like that!
Steve
maybe that's why it looked so odd?
Steve Suttill said
Fri Jul 31 5:52 PM, 2009
Rob Thorpe wrote:
and an odd looking falcon wearing jessies,
I think you mean "jesses", Rob. Jessies are people from the South of England - or something like that!
Steve
Rob Thorpe said
Fri Jul 31 5:34 PM, 2009
Friday 31 July 2009 afternoon Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper 2 Snipe 1 Kingfisher and an odd looking falcon wearing jessies, looked like a slim, long-winged peregrine type thing.
Rob Thorpe said
Thu Jul 30 10:16 AM, 2009
Thursday 30 July 2009 morning
2 Green Sandpiper @ Horrock's Flash and a Dunlin (heard only) over Scotman's Flash.
Rob Thorpe said
Wed Jul 29 10:41 AM, 2009
Wednesday 29 July 2009 morning Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper 3 Snipe 1 Buzzard
Judith Smith said
Tue Jul 28 8:02 PM, 2009
Two female Tufties with 10 new ducklings variously divided between them, on the canal between Scotman's and Pearson's Flashes today. Brings the total number of Tuftie broods well into the 20s this year.
Rob Thorpe said
Mon Jul 27 9:40 PM, 2009
Monday 27 July 2009 evening Horrock's Flash:
1 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Green Sandpiper 1 Snipe Oystercatcher (heard) 1 Common Gull (adult)
Bryn Marsh: 1 Oystercatcher (over) loads of Horse Flies
Rob Thorpe said
Wed Jul 22 9:58 PM, 2009
Wednesday 22 July 2009 evening Horrock's Flash:
2 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Green Sandpiper 5 Snipe 1 Kestrel
Rob Thorpe said
Tue Jul 21 11:04 PM, 2009
Tuesday 21 July 2009 quick evening visit Horrock's Flash:
2 Green Sandpiper 2 Snipe loads of Lesser Black-backed Gulls heading west.
Rob Thorpe said
Mon Jul 20 9:39 PM, 2009
Monday 20 July 2009 evening Horrock's Flash:
1 Whimbrel flew over low, heading south and calling. Nice 3 Green Sandpiper 3 Redshank (2ad, 1juv) 2 Little Ringed Plover (1ad, 1juv) 2 Snipe 1 Kingfisher then, while driving through Spring View on my way home there was a Sparrowhawk plucking it's prey on the pavement, with an audience of young girls screaming and crying as they watched!
Rob Thorpe said
Sun Jul 19 9:15 PM, 2009
Sunday 19 July continued... Evening Horrock's Flash:
3 Green Sandpiper 2 Dunlin 1 Redshank 1 Little Ringed Plover 1 Kingfisher
Rob Thorpe said
Sun Jul 19 4:45 PM, 2009
Sunday 19 July 2009 late morning and mid-afternoon
horrocks flash first stop saw hundreds of lapwing, 3 tuffted duck famillies,3 great crested grebe,common terns,sedge warbler,reed bunting,swan with 6 cygnet on the canal. scotchmans flash had 12 greylags,great crested and little grebe,lots of coot and a few tuffties.Fairly quiet at the feeding station a few goldfinch,chaffinch,1 willow tit and in the area were several willow warblers and several blackcap. hawkley pool had lots of tufties and commonterns picking the dead fish off the canal hope they havent been poisoned . other birds of note were 1 kestrel ,a few grey heron and a good number of goldfinch, greenfinch,swift,house and sand martins. oh and lots of ring doveBig thanks to Pat for the new map book. Vernon you are now not needed as i can find my own way and sat navs are useless
Rob Thorpe said
Sat Jul 18 11:46 AM, 2009
Saturday 18 July 2009 morning Horrock's Flash:
4 Green Sandpiper 3 Redshank (2 ad, 1 juv) quite a few Sand Martins and House Martins and a Blackcap imitating a Willow Warbler's song.
1 Oystercatcher flew south over Scotman's Flash.
Rob Thorpe said
Sat Jul 18 1:04 AM, 2009
Friday 17 July 2009 evening Horrock's Flash:
No sign of the greenshank, but still at least 2 Green Sandpipers present.
Rather quiet tonight, the Greenshank is still present, as is at least 1 Green Sandpiper.
Rob Thorpe said
Mon Jul 13 9:59 PM, 2009
Monday 13 July 2009 evening Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank (for it's 10th day) 3 Green Sandpiper 2 Oystercatcher 3 Snipe 1 Common Gull (adult) 1 Kingfisher I could hear a Siskin overhead and there was an impressive Starling roost at Bryn Marsh.
Beavers cornerDon,t even want to know how it got that name
cheers geoff
Judith Smith said
Sat Jul 11 3:32 PM, 2009
Whilst Rob and Jimmy did Horrocks, I did the rest...4 more broods of Tufties, a new brood of Pochard (at least the 5th) and a promising-looking Shoveler that might be on eggs from her behaviour.
Jimmy Meadows said
Sat Jul 11 3:19 PM, 2009
Rob Thanks for showing us North Pool Wader Watchpoint and Beavers Corner
Cheers Jimmy
Rob Thorpe said
Sat Jul 11 12:28 PM, 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009 morning Horrock's Flash with Jimmy Meadows
1 Greenshank 3 Green Sandpiper 3 Dunlin 7 Redshank (including an annoyingly slim and odd looking juv which refuses to associate with the other redshank) 3 Snipe loads of plovers zipping around and hundreds of Lapwing (I'm going to have to do some kind of plover census this weekend) 1 Wigeon (drake) 1 Kingfisher and 2 Sparrowhawk flew over and put everything up.
Rob Thorpe said
Wed Jul 8 10:02 PM, 2009
Wednesday 08 July 2009 evening Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank (possibly 2) 3 Green Sandpiper (possibly 4) 3 Dunlin 5 Redshank (including a juv doing it's best impression of a wood sandpiper ) 3 Oystercatcher 2 Snipe hundreds of Lapwings and an assortment of plovers which I wasn't even going to attempt to count 1 drake Wigeon
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Wednesday 8th of July 2009 10:08:57 PM
Rob Thorpe said
Tue Jul 7 5:42 PM, 2009
Tuesday 07 July 2009 afternoon Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank 3 Green Sandpiper 1 Dunlin 1 Oystercatcher and an assortment of plovers.
Rob Thorpe said
Mon Jul 6 9:22 PM, 2009
Monday 06 July 2009 evening Horrock's Flash:
3 Green Sandpiper 3 Snipe
Rob Thorpe said
Sun Jul 5 10:18 PM, 2009
Geoff Hargreaves wrote:
i,ve got some poor images of the greenshank
Me too Geoff! Neither would come close enough for my phone-scoping "set-up"
Geoff Hargreaves said
Sun Jul 5 10:05 PM, 2009
Rob,popped along this afternoon I could only see 1 greenshank flashes blockermust have been 6 oystercatchers missed the green sandpipers,and i,ve got some poor images of the greenshank
cheers geoff
Rob Thorpe said
Sun Jul 5 5:06 PM, 2009
Now 2 Greenshank on Horrock's Flash, along with 4 Green Sandpipers (17:30). 2 Ringed Plover 1 Snipe 1 Oystercatcher
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Sunday 5th of July 2009 06:40:02 PM
Rob Thorpe said
Sun Jul 5 11:00 AM, 2009
Sunday 05 July 2009 06:10-10:40
Horrock's Flash: 1 Greenshank 2 Green Sandpiper 2 Ringed Plover
also, a Curlew flew south high over Scotman's Flash.
Rob Thorpe said
Sat Jul 4 3:15 PM, 2009
Saturday 04 July 2009 08:20-14:40
Waders waders waders...
Horrock's Flash: 1 Greenshank 2 Green Sandpiper 1 Common Sandpiper 5 Redshank 1 Ringed Plover 1 Kingfisher
Turner's Flash: 1 Common Sandpiper
Pearson's Flash: 5 Common Sandpiper 1 Sparrowhawk
Hawkley Reedbed: 1 Oystercatcher over 1 Kingfisher lots of Horseflies! I hate Horseflies!!!!
Rob Thorpe said
Thu Jul 2 9:25 AM, 2009
Thursday 02 July 2009 Decided to have an early morning visit before work. My first early visit for ages, but it was well worth dragging myself out of bed for!
Horrock's Flash an adult Mediterranean Gull a Green Sandpiper heard only a female Cuckoo 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Bryn Marsh a Green Sandpiper flew in from the north and dropped down in to the marsh a Garden Warbler singing 1 Mistle Thrush over 1 Sparrowhawk
Rob, glad the sandpipers turned up,with another heatwave on the the cards it would be nice if some of the rangers could spend some time at horrocks,and maybe give them the bus fare to southport.
cheers geoff
Rob Thorpe said
Wed Jul 1 9:32 PM, 2009
Wednesday 01 July 2009 continued... evening Horrock's Flash
Wednesday 01 July 2009 very quick lunchtime vist Horrock's Flash north pool
3 Teal 1 Buzzard (high over) still no green sandpipers
then had to dash back to work leaving the jobless folk to enjoy the 30'C weather with a refreshing swim and a 24 pack of Giro funded Fosters.
Rob Thorpe said
Tue Jun 30 11:07 PM, 2009
The feeling is mutual geoff
Tuesday 30 June 2009 evening Horrock's Flash
1 Kingfisher (canal) 1 Oystercatcher 10+ Teal lots of Lapwing a flock of c50 Sand Martin flying very low along canal at Platt Bridge, heading towards Horrock's at 22:15.
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Tuesday 30th of June 2009 11:27:50 PM
Geoff Hargreaves said
Tue Jun 30 10:54 PM, 2009
Horrocks flash 19.30 till rob came on for the late shift,
The colony is fine,if not dandy lots of activity and excitingly new arrivals ,i,ve decieded to wait untill the fat lady sings before i come to any conclusions about numbers etc. Suffice to to say a pleasant couple of hours spent in good company(not rob,s)
cheers geoff
Rob Thorpe said
Mon Jun 29 10:15 PM, 2009
Henry Cook wrote:
I had a Siskin flying overhead in South Manc today Rob. I can only think it is a bit of early post-breeding movement.
That could well be the case Henry. This probably has no relevance, but the last one I had was in the exact same place on 18 April, which I thought at the time was quite a late record. A late record and a very early record in the exact same spot... Maybe it never left?
Monday 29 April 2009 evening Horrock's Flash
1 Kingfisher 3 Teal (2m 1f) at least 60 Lapwing. Numbers of Swifts have reduced dramatically over the last week, they were just about into double figures tonight.
Henry Cook said
Sun Jun 28 8:22 PM, 2009
I had a Siskin flying overhead in South Manc today Rob. I can only think it is a bit of early post-breeding movement.
late afternoon
Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper
3 Snipe
1 Kingfisher (Platt Bridge)
and a flock of 12 ducks that I picked up coming in head-on, high from the north-east. I tracked them for ages thinking they might be something good. Turned out they were Mallard
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Tuesday 11th of August 2009 06:51:48 PM
evening
Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper
5 Snipe
1 Kingfisher
1 Swift (1st for a few days)
1 Stock Dove
Scotman's Flash (20:45):
2000+ Black-headed Gull
13 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
and the gulls where still pouring in as I left just before 21:00.
a Garganey (female, or possibly juv) on Horrock's Flash this morning.
morning
Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper (heard)
3 Snipe
1 male Sparrowhawk carrying prey.
Other things of interest were a Kingfisher @ Pearson's Flash and 2 Grey Wagtails over Rainford's tip.
I noticed quite a fee Coal Tits around this morning, also lots of warblers singing: Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat and Reed Warbler.
great crested + chicks
common tern+ chicks
1 juv ringed plover
1 common sandpiper
1 snipe
plus the usual suspects
cheers geoff
evening
Horrock's Flash:
1 Curlew (over, heading NW)
1 Common Sandpiper
3 Ringed Plover
1 Snipe
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Friday 7th of August 2009 09:28:40 PM
afternoon
Horrock's Flash:
No jessies today, in fact the only things of note were 2 Green Sandpipers and a Kingfisher.
maybe that's why it looked so odd?
I think you mean "jesses", Rob. Jessies are people from the South of England - or something like that!
Steve
afternoon
Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper
2 Snipe
1 Kingfisher
and an odd looking falcon wearing jessies, looked like a slim, long-winged peregrine type thing.
morning
2 Green Sandpiper @ Horrock's Flash
and a Dunlin (heard only) over Scotman's Flash.
morning
Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper
3 Snipe
1 Buzzard
evening
Horrock's Flash:
1 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Green Sandpiper
1 Snipe
Oystercatcher (heard)
1 Common Gull (adult)
morning
Horrock's Flash:
3 Black-tailed Godwits (thanks Judith)
1 Green Sandpiper
1 Kingfisher
1 Buzzard
1 Kestrel
1 Sparrowhawk
Bryn Marsh:
1 Oystercatcher (over)
loads of Horse Flies
evening
Horrock's Flash:
2 Black-tailed Godwit
2 Green Sandpiper
5 Snipe
1 Kestrel
quick evening visit
Horrock's Flash:
2 Green Sandpiper
2 Snipe
loads of Lesser Black-backed Gulls heading west.
evening
Horrock's Flash:
1 Whimbrel flew over low, heading south and calling. Nice
3 Green Sandpiper
3 Redshank (2ad, 1juv)
2 Little Ringed Plover (1ad, 1juv)
2 Snipe
1 Kingfisher
then, while driving through Spring View on my way home there was a Sparrowhawk plucking it's prey on the pavement, with an audience of young girls screaming and crying as they watched!
Evening
Horrock's Flash:
3 Green Sandpiper
2 Dunlin
1 Redshank
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Kingfisher
late morning and mid-afternoon
Horrock's Flash:
1 Green Sandpiper
2 Little Ringed Plover
1 Snipe
Oystercatcher (heard)
1 Kingfisher
1 Buzzard
1 Sparrowhawk
2 Kestrel
Scotman's Flash:
1 Redshank
25 Mute Swan
Rainford's Tip:
27 off-road vehicles!
horrocks flash first stop saw hundreds of lapwing, 3 tuffted duck famillies,3 great crested grebe,common terns,sedge warbler,reed bunting,swan with 6 cygnet on the canal.
scotchmans flash had 12 greylags,great crested and little grebe,lots of coot and a few tuffties.Fairly quiet at the feeding station a few goldfinch,chaffinch,1 willow tit and in the area were several willow warblers and several blackcap.
hawkley pool had lots of tufties and commonterns picking the dead fish off the canal hope they havent been poisoned
other birds of note were 1 kestrel ,a few grey heron and a good number of goldfinch, greenfinch,swift,house and sand martins.
oh and lots of ring dove
morning
Horrock's Flash:
4 Green Sandpiper
3 Redshank (2 ad, 1 juv)
quite a few Sand Martins and House Martins
and a Blackcap imitating a Willow Warbler's song.
1 Oystercatcher flew south over Scotman's Flash.
evening
Horrock's Flash:
No sign of the greenshank, but still at least 2 Green Sandpipers present.
evening
Horrock's Flash:
1 Black-tailed Godwit (finally!)
1 Greenshank
3 Green Sandpiper
1 Wigeon (drake)
evening
Horrock's Flash:
Rather quiet tonight, the Greenshank is still present, as is at least 1 Green Sandpiper.
evening
Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank (for it's 10th day)
3 Green Sandpiper
2 Oystercatcher
3 Snipe
1 Common Gull (adult)
1 Kingfisher
I could hear a Siskin overhead
and there was an impressive Starling roost at Bryn Marsh.
morning
Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank
3 Green Sandpiper
1 Redshank (juv)
1 Snipe
Oystercatcher (heard)
Evening in the rain
Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank (from Beaver Corner
4 Green Sandpiper
1 Kingfisher
cheers geoff
Thanks for showing us North Pool Wader Watchpoint and Beavers Corner
Cheers Jimmy
morning
Horrock's Flash with Jimmy Meadows
1 Greenshank
3 Green Sandpiper
2 Oystercatcher
2 Snipe
Redshank (heard only)
1 Wigeon (drake)
evening
Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank
3 Green Sandpiper
3 Dunlin
7 Redshank (including an annoyingly slim and odd looking juv which refuses to associate with the other redshank)
3 Snipe
loads of plovers zipping around and hundreds of Lapwing (I'm going to have to do some kind of plover census this weekend)
1 Wigeon (drake)
1 Kingfisher
and 2 Sparrowhawk flew over and put everything up.
evening
Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank (possibly 2)
3 Green Sandpiper (possibly 4)
3 Dunlin
5 Redshank (including a juv doing it's best impression of a wood sandpiper
3 Oystercatcher
2 Snipe
hundreds of Lapwings and an assortment of plovers which I wasn't even going to attempt to count
1 drake Wigeon
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Wednesday 8th of July 2009 10:08:57 PM
afternoon
Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank
3 Green Sandpiper
1 Dunlin
1 Oystercatcher
and an assortment of plovers.
evening
Horrock's Flash:
3 Green Sandpiper
3 Snipe
Me too Geoff! Neither would come close enough for my phone-scoping "set-up"
cheers geoff
2 Ringed Plover
1 Snipe
1 Oystercatcher
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Sunday 5th of July 2009 06:40:02 PM
06:10-10:40
Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank
2 Green Sandpiper
2 Ringed Plover
also, a Curlew flew south high over Scotman's Flash.
08:20-14:40
Waders waders waders...
Horrock's Flash:
1 Greenshank
2 Green Sandpiper
1 Common Sandpiper
5 Redshank
1 Ringed Plover
1 Kingfisher
Turner's Flash:
1 Common Sandpiper
Pearson's Flash:
5 Common Sandpiper
1 Sparrowhawk
Hawkley Reedbed:
1 Oystercatcher over
1 Kingfisher
lots of Horseflies! I hate Horseflies!!!!
Decided to have an early morning visit before work. My first early visit for ages, but it was well worth dragging myself out of bed for!
Horrock's Flash
an adult Mediterranean Gull
a Green Sandpiper heard only
a female Cuckoo
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Bryn Marsh
a Green Sandpiper flew in from the north and dropped down in to the marsh
a Garden Warbler singing
1 Mistle Thrush over
1 Sparrowhawk
Hawkley
1 Kingfisher
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel
3 Sedge Warbler
cheers geoff
evening
Horrock's Flash
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Snipe
c150 Lapwing
22+ Teal
10 Mistle Thrush (over)
very quick lunchtime vist
Horrock's Flash north pool
3 Teal
1 Buzzard (high over)
still no green sandpipers
then had to dash back to work leaving the jobless folk to enjoy the 30'C weather with a refreshing swim and a 24 pack of Giro funded Fosters.
Tuesday 30 June 2009
evening
Horrock's Flash
1 Kingfisher (canal)
1 Oystercatcher
10+ Teal
lots of Lapwing
a flock of c50 Sand Martin flying very low along canal at Platt Bridge, heading towards Horrock's at 22:15.
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe on Tuesday 30th of June 2009 11:27:50 PM
The colony is fine,if not dandy lots of activity and excitingly new arrivals ,i,ve decieded to wait untill the fat lady sings before i come to any conclusions about numbers etc.
Suffice to to say a pleasant couple of hours spent in good company(not rob,s)
cheers geoff
That could well be the case Henry. This probably has no relevance, but the last one I had was in the exact same place on 18 April, which I thought at the time was quite a late record. A late record and a very early record in the exact same spot... Maybe it never left?
Monday 29 April 2009
evening
Horrock's Flash
1 Kingfisher
3 Teal (2m 1f)
at least 60 Lapwing.
Numbers of Swifts have reduced dramatically over the last week, they were just about into double figures tonight.