Highlights on Little Woolden Moss LWT Reserve this early afternoon were a Merlin, Water Rail, a Dunlin which flew around calling then departed west and 76 Teal in fields just on the GM border of the Glaze.
Little Woolden Moss West LWTNR Brief afternoon visit
Juvenile / Female Marsh Harrier 14-25 & 14-55hrs.
Dave Steel said
Sun Oct 31 7:31 PM, 2021
301021 Midday Brief Visit
Irlam Moss
23 Meadow Pipit
3 Snipe
11 Skylark
4 Buzzard.
Steven Heywood said
Sun Oct 31 1:19 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss late Saturday afternoon: just one snipe and three carrion crows.
On Mosslands Farm, the fields immediately next to the reserve: a flock of eighteen carrion crows (I checked three times to make sure they weren't rooks), five grey partridges, thirty-odd starlings, a dozen mipits, a few linnets and forty-odd skylarks. The small birds were all brought up by a female kestrel doing a very good impersonation of a merlin as she came into the field. The skylarks spent the next ten minutes mobbing her.
Further down, on Moss Lane, a hundred and eighty linnets perching on telegraph wires.
Steven Nelson said
Sat Oct 30 8:05 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss NR - late afternoon to sunset
1 Marsh Harrier - fem/imm 1 Sparrowhawk - male 1 Kestrel 2 Buzzard c370 Pink-footed Geese flew in to roost on the reserve c50 Canada Geese 1 Woodcock - flew over me and landed in field north of the reserve 10 Snipe 1 Stonechat - male 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Lapwing 4 Great Black-backed Gull over west 7 Meadow Pipit
Cadishead Moss Carbon Landscape Habitat Survey 1KM Sq. SJ6994 26-10-2021 with Ian Moffat, and many thanks with the help from the dedicated, hard working Steve Atkins with this type of survey.
The habitat here (or the lack of it ) is mainly turf and improved grass. Farmland birds are non existent, even the stalwart Corvid and Woodpigeon are few and far between. Most of the land here is dire, uninspiring and void of flora and fauna of any description. This appears to be more common and widespread throughout, which is depressing to say the least.
Sorry to be the harbinger of such bad news, but we can't let this carry on.
However very small numbers of birds were on the extreme fringes and treeline of the fields which included....
2 Long Tailed Tit
7 Goldfinch
2 Goldcrest
1 Buzzard
2 Kestrel
2 Blackbird
Dave Stewart
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Oct 27 10:23 PM, 2021
Early afternoon on Little Woolden Moss:
c370 Pink-footed Geese flew over west and landed in fields just over the Glaze and in Cheshire
1 Treecreeper - first record for me on the reserve 29 (minimum) Lesser Redpoll - a feeding flock in birch trees and spooked by an unseen predator - presumably a Sparrowhawk Large mixed Tit flock also spooked by the Sparrowhawk 4 Snipe 3 Buzzard 1 Goldcrest 1 Skylark
Dave Steel said
Sat Oct 23 7:06 PM, 2021
221021...with two Post Grad Researchers who are writing a book about such landscapes as Chat Moss
Female Sparrowhawk mobbed by Carrion Crows above Field 57
Juvenile Marsh Harrier quartered the reserve several times before flying west @ 12-30hrs.
Steven Nelson said
Sun Oct 17 3:01 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss NR - brief am visit
1 Stonechat- male 1 Sparrowhawk 2 Buzzard 200 Black-headed Gull
Steven Nelson said
Sat Oct 16 2:26 PM, 2021
Irlam, Chat & Barton Mosses this morning
2 Red Kites together heading south over Irlam Moss towards Irlam at 10.15 and pursued by a flock of Jackdaws. No doubt the same birds seen heading south over Horwich Moors earlier this morning at 09.40 1 Brambling - male c300 Redwing - lots of feeding flocks erupting out of many patches of trees c325 Pink-footed Geese feeding in stubble field 1 Peregrine - hunting Woodpigeons and swooping at the feeding Pink-feet 4 Buzzard 2 Kestrel 1 Sparrowhawk 12 Lapwing 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 40+ Skylark 6 Tree Sparrow 70+ Goldfinch 7 Lesser Redpoll 1 Siskin 1 Yellowhammer 14 Snipe 30+ Teal c.150 Canada Geese - 5 flocks plus 4 birds feeding with the Pink-feet 2 Greylag Geese in with one of the Canada Geese flocks
Dave Steel said
Sat Oct 16 8:16 AM, 2021
151021 am
Little Woolden Moss
3 Golden Plover Flying over
270 Skylark
70 Linnet
4 Grey Partridge
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
4 Snipe
24 Reed Bunting
350 Lapwing Flew West-East in 3 separate flocks
4 Lesser Redpoll
2 Great Black-Backed Gull flew North
Dave Stewart said
Fri Oct 15 5:50 PM, 2021
Irlam Moss
375 Pink Footed Geese still (Field 52)
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR watch 10-20-12-50hrs. (North Path)
7 Reed Bunting
31 Meadow Pipit over south
218 Skylark over south
75 Linnet on the border of Fields 56 / 57
2 Kestrel
12 Buzzard
1 female Sparrowhawk over Field 57
2 Raven over east to west
c300 Lapwing 'scoped 2 miles west of LWM
Dave Steel said
Thu Oct 14 11:25 PM, 2021
131021 am
Barton Moss...PfE Warehouse Land...If the Developers and Salford City Council get their way....(and in my opinion ) they will
1 Whooper Swan - W side of field 52 at 4:30 and still there at dusk
1 Pink Footed Goose - in field 52 at 4:30, not there at dusk - presumably "collected" by the flock - see below
I think the rest of the flock were somewhere on Little Woolden Moss North of the nature reserve (audible).
At just after 6pm a noisy flock of approx 300 (presumably the "local" flock but I didn't see them take off) were flying low and east, if they came to ground nearby then it wasn't visible from Twelve Yards Road.
21 Grey Partridge - in field 17
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Swallow
1 Marsh Harrier
1 Sparrowhawk - female
30 Teal (approx)
Dave Stewart said
Sun Oct 10 1:47 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
3 Kestrel
21 Skylark
17 Meadow Pipit
4 Grey Partridge
5 Reed Bunting
1 male Peregrine
1 Sparrowhawk
Irlam Moss
c350 Pink Footed Geese
1 Whooper Swan (still)
Steven Nelson said
Sun Oct 10 1:36 PM, 2021
Irlam and Chat Moss this morning:
c.350 Pink-footed Geese feeding in f52 1 Whooper Swan on Croxden west pools
Dave Steel said
Sat Oct 9 8:49 AM, 2021
081021 am
Irlam Moss
5 Grey Partridge
7 Yellowhammer
6 Snipe
34 Meadow Pipit
12 Skylark
Cadishead Moss
57 Skylark
90 Starling
Chat Moss
1 Stonechat
110 Starling
360 Pink-Footed Geese on Stubble...the rarity being the stubble!
Friday 8th Oct late afternoon, birds around Astley Moss included: 1 Curlew, flew south 5 Buzzard 2 Kestrel 10 Stock Dove 3 Skylark 3 Song Thrush 3 Jay 1 Treecreeper 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Bullfinch 25 Goldfinch 10 Linnet
-- Edited by dave broome on Saturday 9th of October 2021 06:49:22 PM
Dave Stewart said
Fri Oct 8 11:14 PM, 2021
Great Woolden Hall & Cadishead Moss
30 House Sparrow
7 Pied Wagtail
1 adult male Sparrowhawk
c300 Canada Geese (R. Glaze)
9 Grey Partridge
2 Kestrel
2 Tree Sparrow (Oakwood Farm)
8 Meadow Pipit (F39B)
Cadishead Moss.... once a thriving area for farmland birds, now sterile and devoid of birdlife apart from corvid, woodpigeon and gulls awash with pesticides herbicides etc. producing nothing but turf and so called improved grass. This now seems increasingly typical.
Sorry to sound so pessimistic, but this is disastrous. There has to be a better way than this.
Dave
Steve Judge said
Fri Oct 8 9:49 AM, 2021
Thursday, 7th October 12:00 - 16:00 hrs.
Walk along full length of Twelve Yards Road from Barton Moss to Little Woolden Moss NR and return.
Highlights included:
Whooper Swan x 1 (Field 52) Pink-Feet Geese x 250 (Field 52) Lapwing x 14 Sparrowhawk x 1 Kestrel x 2 Buzzard x 6 Reed Bunting x 3 Grey Heron x 1 Pied Wagtail x 1
Dave Steel said
Fri Oct 8 8:06 AM, 2021
071021 brief am visit
2 Stonechat
1 Golden Plover Flew over @ 0850
4 Lesser Redpoll
52 Meadow Pipit
150 Skylark
4 Teal.
Dave Stewart said
Wed Oct 6 10:46 PM, 2021
Irlam Moss
1 Whooper Swan (Field 52)
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR (briefly)
2 Stonechat
1 Kestrel
Little Woolden Moss
115 Skylark
65 Meadow Pipit
c50 Linnet
5 Pied Wagtail
Male Sparrowhawk mobbed by Jackdaws
35 Goldfinch
1 Coal Tit
40 House Sparrow
23 Swallow
7 Buzzard
Dave Steel said
Wed Oct 6 7:41 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss am
3 Stonechat
1 Peregrine (male) in pursuit of Woodpigeon...it made a hit but outcome obscured by a treeline..
1 Golden Plover Flying over at 1140 and one flying over @ 1150
17 Swallow
5 House Martin
121 Skylark
2 Lesser Redpoll
1 Chiffchaff
63 Linnet
3 Snipe
Chat Moss
1 Whooper Swan.
Steven Nelson said
Wed Oct 6 7:37 PM, 2021
Irlam Moss 16.30 F52 - c160 Pink-footed Geese feeding in stubble field
Little Woolden Moss NR 16.45-17.45 Hoped for Hen Harrier didnt materialise. 2 Snipe
Irlam Moss 18.00 Second check of F52 The Pink-feet had been joined by c350 Canada Geese and c40 Greylag Geese (including 6 white birds) plus 1 Whooper Swan. Then the Canadas all noisily took flight and headed off NE, taking c30 of the Pink-feet with them.
Sunday mooch 11.00-2.30:
little woolden moss:
pair of stonechat
huge flock of pink footed goose very distant c400 conservative guess
3 teal and a little grebe on glaze brook
croxdens:
marsh harrier with red wing tag
20 whooper swans including 3 cygnet/young
my first ever gm brambling! At least 2 of which were knocking about with a 20 strong flock of chaffinch and a single yelloyhammer
i feel like I have grafted hard for that tick. Chasing sightings for about 14/15 years!
Afternoon visit to Little Woolden Moss LWTNR and fields to the N and W.
Very quiet on the reserve; highlight was a Merlin at the W end. (See heavily-cropped photo.)
Highlight outside the reserve was a lone Wigeon with Mallards near the river.
061121 Midday Visit
Chat Moss
62 Skylark
28 Fieldfare
7 Redwing
1 Sparrowhawk...Female
69 Collared Dove
1 Yellowhammer.
051121 am
Irlam Moss
3 Snipe
11 Skylark
10 Linnet
7 Grey Partridge
Chat Moss
2 Yellowhammer
10 Skylark
13 Collared Dove
16 Stock Dove
80 Starling
3 Lapwing.
041121
Chat Moss
2 Whooper Swan
1 Water Rail
4 Lesser Redpoll
3 Snipe
64 Redwing
28 Linnet
Barton Moss
3 Snipe
1 Marsh Harrier with Red Wing tag
550 Jackdaw
170 Starling
22 Skylark.
Highlights on Little Woolden Moss LWT Reserve this early afternoon were a Merlin, Water Rail, a Dunlin which flew around calling then departed west and 76 Teal in fields just on the GM border of the Glaze.
031121 am
Chat Moss
350 Black-Headed Gull
10 Stock Dove
2 Yellowhammer
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
3 Snipe
2 Lesser Redpoll
Little Woolden Moss
245 Skylark
36 House Sparrow
9 Tree Sparrow
350 Linnet
5 Buzzard.
Little woolden moss LWTNR
190 Skylark over west
225 Redwing over west
c100 Linnet still (Fields 56 / 57)
7 Buzzard
1 Kestrel
11 Reed Bunting
3 Snipe
c200 Starling Field 56
1 untagged juvenile Marsh Harrier
021121 am
Chat Moss
6 Siskin
1 Peregrine hunting Woodpigeon
2 Snipe
17 Pied Wagtail
14 Skylark
1 Grey Wagtail.
011121 am
Chat Moss
4 Pintail
34 Gadwall
42 Teal
32 Lesser Redpoll
21 Siskin
24 Skylark
2 Raven
3 Lesser Redpoll.
311021 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Marsh Harrier (F/IMM) with a Red Wing Tag
1 Marsh Harrier (F/IMM) without a Wing Tag
1 Peregrine....Female...Immature
7 Lapwing
1 Pink-Footed Goose
3 Yellowhammer
5 Pintail....Chased off by the Peregrine
2 Snipe
1 Golden Plover Flew over @ 1120
45 Lapwing
50 Linnet
Little Woolden Moss West LWTNR Brief afternoon visit
Juvenile / Female Marsh Harrier 14-25 & 14-55hrs.
301021 Midday Brief Visit
Irlam Moss
23 Meadow Pipit
3 Snipe
11 Skylark
4 Buzzard.
1 Marsh Harrier - fem/imm
1 Sparrowhawk - male
1 Kestrel
2 Buzzard
c370 Pink-footed Geese flew in to roost on the reserve
c50 Canada Geese
1 Woodcock - flew over me and landed in field north of the reserve
10 Snipe
1 Stonechat - male
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Lapwing
4 Great Black-backed Gull over west
7 Meadow Pipit
291021 am
Irlam Moss
80 Fieldfare Flew over heading south
Barton Moss
40 Starling
9 Yellowhammer
4 Snipe
2 Grey Wagtail
86 Skylark
3 Buzzard
1 Merlin
280 Pink-Footed Geese
10 Common Gull
11 Meadow Pipit
281021 am with Hale U3A
Cadishead Moss
8 Grey Partridge
280 Starling
6 Buzzard
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
2 Siskin
1 Lesser Redpoll
2 Snipe
Barton Moss SJ7296 Carbon Landscape Habitat Survey birds noted were....
1 Kestrel
34 Redwing
8 Mistle Thrush
2 Buzzard
125 Starling
17 Collared Dove
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
75 Pink Footed Geese over east 14-30hrs.
400 Woodpigeon
12 Fieldfare
1 male Peregrine
9 Chaffinch
271021 am
Little Woolden Moss am
3 Snipe
10 Lesser Redpoll
1 Siskin
2 Great Black-Backed Gull
1 Raven
1 Merlin...Male
Cadishead Moss Carbon Landscape Habitat Survey 1KM Sq. SJ6994 26-10-2021 with Ian Moffat, and many thanks with the help from the dedicated, hard working Steve Atkins with this type of survey.
The habitat here (or the lack of it ) is mainly turf and improved grass. Farmland birds are non existent, even the stalwart Corvid and Woodpigeon are few and far between. Most of the land here is dire, uninspiring and void of flora and fauna of any description. This appears to be more common and widespread throughout, which is depressing to say the least.
Sorry to be the harbinger of such bad news, but we can't let this carry on.
However very small numbers of birds were on the extreme fringes and treeline of the fields which included....
2 Long Tailed Tit
7 Goldfinch
2 Goldcrest
1 Buzzard
2 Kestrel
2 Blackbird
Dave Stewart
Early afternoon on Little Woolden Moss:
c370 Pink-footed Geese flew over west and landed in fields just over the Glaze and in Cheshire
Wing-tagged juvenile/female Marsh Harrier
17 Fieldfare in one flock
1 male Stonechat
2 Lesser Redpoll over NW
1 very fine Peregrine resting on the peat
1 Raven over east
c.350 Pink-footed Geese feeding in stubble field
1 Siskin
3 Lesser Redpoll
23 Redwing
3 Buzzard
1 Kestrel
261021 am with Salford CVS
New Moss Wood
2 Willow Tit
3 Siskin
Irlam Moss
4 Snipe
16 Linnet
Chat Moss
2 Snipe
18 Reed Bunting
1 Peregrine...Male
1 Raven
10 Grey Partridge
1 Grey Wagtail.
251021 midday brief visit
1 Marsh Harrier...Female
2 Stonechat...pair
241021 am
Irlam moss
31 Redwing
1 Brambling
4 Grey Partridge
2 Snipe
32 Starling
27 Stock Dove
Chat Moss
400 Pink-Footed Geese
2 Yellowhammer
3 Snipe
29 Redwing
Barton Moss
1 Peregrine...Female
2 Snipe
1 Marsh Harrier...Female
2 Brambling
8 Lesser Redpoll
2 Siskin.
231021 Midday after Vis-Mig at Woolston Eyes
Chat Moss
80 Skylark
16 Stock Dove
1 Snipe
2 Yellowhammer
1 Treecreeper - first record for me on the reserve
29 (minimum) Lesser Redpoll - a feeding flock in birch trees and spooked by an unseen predator - presumably a Sparrowhawk
Large mixed Tit flock also spooked by the Sparrowhawk
4 Snipe
3 Buzzard
1 Goldcrest
1 Skylark
221021...with two Post Grad Researchers who are writing a book about such landscapes as Chat Moss
Irlam Moss
4 Snipe
2 Stonechat...pair
2 Yellowhammer
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Little Egret...flew West
1 Marsh Harrier
2 Snipe
9 Lesser Redpoll.
211021 am
Irlam moss
19 Redwing
7 Reed Bunting
23 Skylark
3 Grey Partridge
2 Yellowhammer
18 Linnet
6 Snipe
28 Stock Dove
Chat Moss
27 Whooper Swan...first 9...later family party of 2 adult/4 young joined them and an hour later 12 birds dropped in from high and joined them.
5 Lesser Redpoll
1 Golden Plover flew over @ 1130
3 Snipe
2 Brambling
1 Marsh Harrier hunting @ 1135...moved North chased by Carrion Crow
550 Teal which headed North in several flocks round noon...
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Friday 22nd of October 2021 09:08:08 AM
Irlam Moss
14 Whooper Swan juveniles & adults in Field 52
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR East
109 Skylark over southwest
15 Meadow Pipit
95 Linnet
Female Sparrowhawk mobbed by Carrion Crows above Field 57
Juvenile Marsh Harrier quartered the reserve several times before flying west @ 12-30hrs.
1 Stonechat- male
1 Sparrowhawk
2 Buzzard
200 Black-headed Gull
2 Red Kites together heading south over Irlam Moss towards Irlam at 10.15 and pursued by a flock of Jackdaws. No doubt the same birds seen heading south over Horwich Moors earlier this morning at 09.40
1 Brambling - male
c300 Redwing - lots of feeding flocks erupting out of many patches of trees
c325 Pink-footed Geese feeding in stubble field
1 Peregrine - hunting Woodpigeons and swooping at the feeding Pink-feet
4 Buzzard
2 Kestrel
1 Sparrowhawk
12 Lapwing
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
40+ Skylark
6 Tree Sparrow
70+ Goldfinch
7 Lesser Redpoll
1 Siskin
1 Yellowhammer
14 Snipe
30+ Teal
c.150 Canada Geese - 5 flocks plus 4 birds feeding with the Pink-feet
2 Greylag Geese in with one of the Canada Geese flocks
151021 am
Little Woolden Moss
3 Golden Plover Flying over
270 Skylark
70 Linnet
4 Grey Partridge
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
4 Snipe
24 Reed Bunting
350 Lapwing Flew West-East in 3 separate flocks
4 Lesser Redpoll
2 Great Black-Backed Gull flew North
Irlam Moss
375 Pink Footed Geese still (Field 52)
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR watch 10-20-12-50hrs. (North Path)
7 Reed Bunting
31 Meadow Pipit over south
218 Skylark over south
75 Linnet on the border of Fields 56 / 57
2 Kestrel
12 Buzzard
1 female Sparrowhawk over Field 57
2 Raven over east to west
c300 Lapwing 'scoped 2 miles west of LWM
131021 am
Barton Moss...PfE Warehouse Land...If the Developers and Salford City Council get their way....(and in my opinion ) they will
31 Skylark
30 Meadow Pipit
7 Snipe
3 Yellowhammer
8 Reed Bunting
21 Whooper Swan Flying East @ 1040
36 Pink-footed Geese feeding in f52
c25 Greylag over east
41 Redwing
1 Lesser Redpoll
c50+ Teal
2 Buzzard
1 Chiffchaff
With lots of conservation work going on at the Western end of the site, I mainly concentrated on the Eastern side.
A large gathering of Black headed Gulls had built up at the Western end though, until a single Buzzard flushed them.
Meanwhile, a small group of larger gulls on adjacent farmland contained 2 adult Great black Backs.
Also, a couple of Swallows flew across the mossland heading "North".
On arable fields by the NE corner of the site a female Kestrel hovered, but then she appeared to deliberately fly around the edge
of a field rather than directly across it. When I checked then the centre of the field she had avoided, it contained a small group
of Carrion Crows.
Chat Moss am
1 Golden Plover Flying Over @ 0945
26 Stock Dove
5 Snipe
9 Wigeon
5 Shoveler
48 Teal
1 Golden Plover Flying West @ 1202
8 Whooper Swan Flew East @ 1200
1 Golden Plover Flew over @ 1217
111021 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
7 Lesser Redpoll
2 Golden Plover Flying over @ 1010
4 Snipe
Little Woolden Moss
13 Stock Dove
35 House Sparrow
190 Skylark
33 Greenfinch
2 Yellowhammer.
10/10/2021 - afternoon
1 Whooper Swan - W side of field 52 at 4:30 and still there at dusk
1 Pink Footed Goose - in field 52 at 4:30, not there at dusk - presumably "collected" by the flock - see below
I think the rest of the flock were somewhere on Little Woolden Moss North of the nature reserve (audible).
At just after 6pm a noisy flock of approx 300 (presumably the "local" flock but I didn't see them take off) were flying low and east, if they came to ground nearby then it wasn't visible from Twelve Yards Road.
21 Grey Partridge - in field 17
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Swallow
1 Marsh Harrier
1 Sparrowhawk - female
30 Teal (approx)
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
3 Kestrel
21 Skylark
17 Meadow Pipit
4 Grey Partridge
5 Reed Bunting
1 male Peregrine
1 Sparrowhawk
Irlam Moss
c350 Pink Footed Geese
1 Whooper Swan (still)
c.350 Pink-footed Geese feeding in f52
1 Whooper Swan on Croxden west pools
081021 am
Irlam Moss
5 Grey Partridge
7 Yellowhammer
6 Snipe
34 Meadow Pipit
12 Skylark
Cadishead Moss
57 Skylark
90 Starling
Chat Moss
1 Stonechat
110 Starling
360 Pink-Footed Geese on Stubble...the rarity being the stubble!
1 Whooper Swan
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
41 Skylark
3 Lesser Redpoll
11 Buzzard
1 Chiffchaff
2 Great Black-Backed Gull flew South-North @ 1202
Little Woolden Moss
33 Skylark
50 Linnet
1 Curlew, flew south
5 Buzzard
2 Kestrel
10 Stock Dove
3 Skylark
3 Song Thrush
3 Jay
1 Treecreeper
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Bullfinch
25 Goldfinch
10 Linnet
-- Edited by dave broome on Saturday 9th of October 2021 06:49:22 PM
Great Woolden Hall & Cadishead Moss
30 House Sparrow
7 Pied Wagtail
1 adult male Sparrowhawk
c300 Canada Geese (R. Glaze)
9 Grey Partridge
2 Kestrel
2 Tree Sparrow (Oakwood Farm)
8 Meadow Pipit (F39B)
Cadishead Moss.... once a thriving area for farmland birds, now sterile and devoid of birdlife apart from corvid, woodpigeon and gulls awash with pesticides herbicides etc. producing nothing but turf and so called improved grass. This now seems increasingly typical.
Sorry to sound so pessimistic, but this is disastrous. There has to be a better way than this.
Dave
Walk along full length of Twelve Yards Road from Barton Moss to Little Woolden Moss NR and return.
Highlights included:
Whooper Swan x 1 (Field 52)
Pink-Feet Geese x 250 (Field 52)
Lapwing x 14
Sparrowhawk x 1
Kestrel x 2
Buzzard x 6
Reed Bunting x 3
Grey Heron x 1
Pied Wagtail x 1
071021 brief am visit
2 Stonechat
1 Golden Plover Flew over @ 0850
4 Lesser Redpoll
52 Meadow Pipit
150 Skylark
4 Teal.
Irlam Moss
1 Whooper Swan (Field 52)
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR (briefly)
2 Stonechat
1 Kestrel
Little Woolden Moss
115 Skylark
65 Meadow Pipit
c50 Linnet
5 Pied Wagtail
Male Sparrowhawk mobbed by Jackdaws
35 Goldfinch
1 Coal Tit
40 House Sparrow
23 Swallow
7 Buzzard
Little Woolden Moss am
3 Stonechat
1 Peregrine (male) in pursuit of Woodpigeon...it made a hit but outcome obscured by a treeline..
1 Golden Plover Flying over at 1140 and one flying over @ 1150
17 Swallow
5 House Martin
121 Skylark
2 Lesser Redpoll
1 Chiffchaff
63 Linnet
3 Snipe
Chat Moss
1 Whooper Swan.
F52 - c160 Pink-footed Geese feeding in stubble field
Little Woolden Moss NR 16.45-17.45
Hoped for Hen Harrier didnt materialise.
2 Snipe
Irlam Moss 18.00
Second check of F52
The Pink-feet had been joined by c350 Canada Geese and c40 Greylag Geese (including 6 white birds) plus 1 Whooper Swan. Then the Canadas all noisily took flight and headed off NE, taking c30 of the Pink-feet with them.