10 Partridges out of back window and on my apple tree on front lawn.

Wait for it.......flock of Fieldfare

Circuit start at Sankey Valley via Gypsy Wood cut back before Fiddle and walk back down canal.

Flocks Linnet
Kestrel (2)
Buzzard (2)
Fieldfare (100) fields by Gypsy wood.
Jay (1)

Newton Lake frozen today

46 Teal present though Tufties and Pochard have moved on

Escaped female Harris' Hawk also present

Newton Lake mid morning

3 Green Sandpipers
1 Kingfisher (male)
1 Buzzard
2 Grey Wags
9 Gadwall
7 Teal
1 Tufty
9 Canada Geese
2 Mute Swans
1 Little Grebe

94 Linnets on wires on Parkside Rd this evening

3 Green Sandpipers this evening at Newton Lake - on mud flat at back of pool

Peregrine late morning perched in top of a hedge off Parkside Rd.

Different bird to the one I saw at HGF earlier this morning

Also female Pintail on Newton Lake (Willow Park) late afternoon and 28 Linnets on Parkside Rd

-- Edited by Mike Baron at 17:33, 2008-11-08