A quick look at the west end of Little Woolden before the rain . Still at least 7 Dunlin feeding on the pool nearest to the cabins 2 Yellow Wagtail And plenty of Swifts feeding over the pools.
4 Lapwing...would have been more but 2-3 years ago until the farmer moved to Winter Wheat...LEST WE FORGET Cheap Food comes at a very DEAR Price to Wildlife
6 Whitethroat in song
14 Swallow
6 House Martin
1 Lesser Whitethroat in song.
pete berry said
Tue May 18 11:50 AM, 2021
A quick wander round Little Woolden produced 10 Yellow Wagtail Redshank 2 Oystercatcher Plenty of Lapwing Several singing Willow Warbler And brief views of a Hobby
Dave Steel said
Tue May 18 8:40 AM, 2021
Late Record am Yesterday 170521
BBS for Carbon Landscape Little Woolden Moss East
14 Willow Warbler in song
2 Lesser Redpoll
8 Tufted Duck
6 Swallow
5 Linnet
1 Reed Warbler
38 Swift
27 Meadow Pipit
1 Sedge Warbler in song
1 Redshank
14 Reed Bunting
8 Yellow Wagtail
36 Swallow brought down due to storm...they moved off North when Storm passed through
Highlights this evening on Little Woolden Moss LWT reserve:
Wood Sandpiper briefly on the eastern pools before flying off strongly west and not refound
13 Yellow Wagtails, including seven feeding around the eastern pools alone
167 Swift feeding over the reserve
Single Grey Wagtail over north
Dave Steel said
Sat May 15 7:48 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve west after woolston Eyes
170 Swift
3 Buzzard
7 Yellow Wagtail
1 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
9 Swallow
7 Sand Martin
2 Yellowhammer.
Dave Steel said
Fri May 14 7:43 PM, 2021
Barton Moss
1 Oystercatcher
7 Yellow Wagtail
1 Wheatear
28 Lapwing...several calling to young...3 young noted
Chat Moss
29 Lapwing...with 12 quite large young noted
1 Oystercatcher
1 Sedge Warbler in song
1 Garden Warbler in song
3 Wheatear
1 Mediterranean Gull
6 Tufted Duck...3 Pair
21 Willow Warbler in song
Pete Hines said
Fri May 14 1:47 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss (eastern pool)
Ruff 1 Hobby 1
Chat Moss
Garden Warbler 1 seen and heard in song Sedge Warbler 1
dave broome said
Fri May 14 10:15 AM, 2021
At Little Woolden Moss early morning birds included 1 Ruff 6 Oystercatcher 1 Curlew 2 Yellow Wagtail 2 Sand Martin 13 Swift
Dave Steel said
Thu May 13 3:52 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve after a BBS at Woolston
1 Wood Sandpiper
2 Redshank
3 Oystercatcher
7 Yellow Wagtail
9 Sand Martin
7 Swallow
1 Water Rail
2 Gadwall...Pair
2 Tufted Duck...Pair.
Dave Steel said
Wed May 12 11:07 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve
1 Ruff
5 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
18 Willow Warbler in song
2 Redshank
14 Swift
4 Swallow
2 Yellow Wagtail.
Dave Steel said
Tue May 11 8:11 PM, 2021
Chat Moss am
2 Garden Warbler...in Song
2 Sedge Warbler...in song
21 Willow Warbler...in song
6 Rook
5 Yellow Wagtail
3 Oystercatcher
1 Wheatear.
Dave Steel said
Mon May 10 11:21 PM, 2021
am
Barton Moss
1 Sedge Warbler in song
3 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
24 Starling
18 Whitethroat
22 House Sparrow
24 Swallow
10 House Martin
10 Lapwing
4 Yellow Wagtail
12 Skylark
5 Song Thrush
1 Yellowhammer in song
Chat Moss
3 Wheatear
6 Swallow
2 House Martin
Little Woolden Moss East
2 Curlew
15 Sand Martin
3 Yellow Wagtail
6 Swallow
190 Swift
2 Lesser Redpoll
Dave Steel said
Sun May 9 10:46 PM, 2021
am
Chat Moss
4 Grey Partridge
4 Yellow Wagtail
7 Wheatear
6 Oystercatcher
2 Shelduck
2 Swallow
120 Swift
1 Sedge Warbler
2 House Martin
Samglennie said
Sun May 9 7:46 PM, 2021
Little woolden moss 13:00-15:30:
1x Whinchat in dead trees south of car park, 2x wheatear, 6x oystercatcher, 6x yellow wagtail, 1x white wagtail, 10x pied wagtail, 2x curlew, 25x lapwing, 6x canada goose, 1x greylag goose, 16x mallard, 3x buzzard
Ian McKerchar said
Sun May 9 7:25 PM, 2021
Astley Moss this evening:
Male Whinchat in the first field behind Rindle Wood
Six Wheatear; with four behind Rindle Wood, one off Moss Lane and one in field 68
Plenty of well grown young Lapwings in fields off Moss Lane
Young Mistle Thrushes feeding in fields behind Rindle Wood
2 adult Dunlin and a singing Grasshopper Warbler were the main highlights late morning from the western end of Little Woolden Moss.
Dave Steel said
Fri May 7 3:19 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss Nature Reserve BBS for LWT included
2 Water Rail
1 Grasshopper Warbler...reeling
5 Sedge Warbler...4 in song
1 Marsh Harrier...male
2 White Wagtail
7 Dunlin
1 Common Sandpiper
8 Yellow Wagtail
3 Oystercatcher
2 Redshank
1 Peregrine...male
1 Sparrowhawk...male
16 House Martin
130 Swift
31 Willow Warbler...in song
75 Swallow
....and after the Survey sat and watched over the East Pool....a downpour including hail soon passed but then from the east @ 1248 came a mixed flock of Hirundine and Swift which dipped lower over the pool but then carried on in a SW direction carrying away the Red-Rumped Swallow that was with them!
Dave Steel said
Thu May 6 8:12 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve West Midday Visit after Woolston
160 Swift
45 Sand Martin
37 House Martin
42 Swallow
all four species held back by the weather and feeding low over the pools
Two Whimbrel NW through Little Woolden Moss this afternoon, also 6 Wheatear and 6 Yellow Wagtail, one of which was the male Channel Wagtail still around the western edge of the reserve.
Dave Steel said
Mon May 3 4:48 PM, 2021
am...Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve with Al Warford
A quick look down Rindle late afternoon and the Channel Wagtail was back in its usual field behind Rindle Cottages, showing quite well at times. No sign of the Whinchat but still a couple of Wheatears and a single White Wagtail. Still one Whimbrel in the field before the old carrot field despite some idiot with bins and a scope walking through the middle of the field !!!!!
Cracking little morning with Pete Berry around the Rindle area of Astley Moss produced highlights of:
2 Whimbrel in the middle field of the three directly behind Rindle Wood
5 Wheatear, with one in the same field as the Whimbrel and 4 split between fields 68 and 67
1 splendid Whinchat feeding in the ploughed section of field 68
1 male Channel Wagtail (Blue-headed x Yellow Wagtail) in the ploughed section of field 68, came really close to us at times (very vocal too), which was good as neither of us had brought a 'scope! The bird eventually flew off strongly south across the railway towards Chat Moss field 58 (where I have previously recorded a male on territory a couple of years ago).
1 male White Wagtail in field 68, with a few Pied Wagtails
3 Yellowhammer, including two constantly battling males flying around the edge of field 67, oblivious to their proximity to us!
A very well fledged brood of Song Thrushes just past Rindle Cottages
Steve Collins said
Thu Apr 29 8:37 PM, 2021
Little Woolden Moss. Morning until just after lunch.
1 Red Kite. (Thanks to the gent who pointed to the sky above me!) 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Kestrel 2 Oystercatcher 1 Curlew 1 Common Sandpiper 1 Wood Sandpiper 1 Spotted Redshank 1 Mediterranean Gull 2 Wheatear 3 Swift 6 Swallow 6 Whitethroat 10 Willow Warbler (minimum) 1 Moorhen Many Skylarks
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve...in a 'bit of rain/hail/thunder...
1 Wheatear
2 Redshank
1 Ringed Plover
3 Sedge Warbler in song...one with a metal ring on right leg
1 Marsh Harrier...male
8 Tufted Duck...4 pair
33 Willow Warbler in song
9 House Martin
24 Swallow
11 Yellow Wagtail...1 female with Nesting Material
3 Oystercatcher
19 Reed Bunting
36 Linnet
Still at least 7 Dunlin feeding on the pool nearest to the cabins
2 Yellow Wagtail
And plenty of Swifts feeding over the pools.
2 Turnstones, 16 Dunlin, 1 displaying Curlew, 3 Oystercatchers, 1 Kestrel, 1 Buzzard, 3 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Meadow Pipits,
1 Common Whitethroat, 2 Shelducks and 10 singing Willow Warblers.
At least 60 Swifts in flight over the sight, plus lesser numbers of Swallow and Sand Martin with a couple of House Martins.
The only negative sighting was of two scrambler motorcycles zooming up and down the reserve footpaths at one point.
Little Woolden Moss Wander in less than inviting rain...
1 Yellowhammer in song
45 Swift...hawking low for insects
16 Skylark
5 Yellow Wagtail
2 Curlew...pair
1 Oystercatcher
2 Swallow
Lapwing with young
Carbon Landscape BBS Little Woolden Moss West am included
1 Marsh Harrier...Male
2 Curlew
1 Redshank
4 Oystercatcher
4 Sedge Warbler
15 Willow Warbler in song
160 Swift...including a pair mating on the wing
1 Wheatear
7 Yellow wagtail
time to catch up with Dave Stewart after his marathon isolation from the Moss.
Irlam Moss
1 Mediterranean Gull
2 Yellow Wagtail
65 Black-Headed Gull
16 Lesser Black-Backed Gull
3 Herring Gull
26 Lapwing...several with young
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve
1 Curlew in display
1 Redshank
200 Swift
3 Oystercatcher
5 Yellow Wagtail
2 Mediterranean Gull Flying east
26 Willow Warbler in song
Cadishead Moss
1 Nuthatch
14 Swallow
1 Lesser Whitethroat in song
2 Tree Sparrow
1 Oystercatcher
3 Yellow Wagtail
Highlights from a walk from Irlam to Glazebury water treatment works 11:30 - 15:15
Cadishead Moss including New Moss Wood
11 Blackcap in song
3 Chiffchaff in Song
4 Bullfinch
5 Willow Warbler in Song
7 Yellow Wagtail
4 Lapwing...would have been more but 2-3 years ago until the farmer moved to Winter Wheat...LEST WE FORGET Cheap Food comes at a very DEAR Price to Wildlife
6 Whitethroat in song
14 Swallow
6 House Martin
1 Lesser Whitethroat in song.
10 Yellow Wagtail
Redshank
2 Oystercatcher
Plenty of Lapwing
Several singing Willow Warbler
And brief views of a Hobby
Late Record am Yesterday 170521
BBS for Carbon Landscape Little Woolden Moss East
14 Willow Warbler in song
2 Lesser Redpoll
8 Tufted Duck
6 Swallow
5 Linnet
1 Reed Warbler
38 Swift
27 Meadow Pipit
1 Sedge Warbler in song
1 Redshank
14 Reed Bunting
8 Yellow Wagtail
36 Swallow brought down due to storm...they moved off North when Storm passed through
1 Wheatear
14 Skylark
1 Channel Wagtail
Late afternoon on Little Woolden Moss produced:
A fine male Marsh Harrier
1st summer Common Gull feeding on flooded parts of field 19
2 Wheatear
11 Yellow Wagtail
227+ Swift feeding over the reserve
4 Oystercatcher
A quick walk round just after lunch and very quiet, highlights being
Gadwall 2
Oystercatcher 3
Redshank 1
Whitethroat 1
Yellow Wagtail 7
Chat Moss
14 Swallow
4 House Martin
2 Yellowhammer
22 Starling...including their young
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve
16 Willow Warbler in song
1 Reed Warbler in song
2 Curlew in Display
5 Tufted Duck
21 Meadow Pipit
4 Oystercatcher
1 Redshank
4 Yellow Wagtail
1 Marsh Harrier...Male
1 Hobby...with Dragonflies managing to emerge on what was for once a warm May 2021 day!
Highlights this evening on Little Woolden Moss LWT reserve:
Wood Sandpiper briefly on the eastern pools before flying off strongly west and not refound
13 Yellow Wagtails, including seven feeding around the eastern pools alone
167 Swift feeding over the reserve
Single Grey Wagtail over north
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve west after woolston Eyes
170 Swift
3 Buzzard
7 Yellow Wagtail
1 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
9 Swallow
7 Sand Martin
2 Yellowhammer.
Barton Moss
1 Oystercatcher
7 Yellow Wagtail
1 Wheatear
28 Lapwing...several calling to young...3 young noted
Chat Moss
29 Lapwing...with 12 quite large young noted
1 Oystercatcher
1 Sedge Warbler in song
1 Garden Warbler in song
3 Wheatear
1 Mediterranean Gull
6 Tufted Duck...3 Pair
21 Willow Warbler in song
Ruff 1
Hobby 1
Chat Moss
Garden Warbler 1 seen and heard in song
Sedge Warbler 1
1 Ruff
6 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
2 Yellow Wagtail
2 Sand Martin
13 Swift
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve after a BBS at Woolston
1 Wood Sandpiper
2 Redshank
3 Oystercatcher
7 Yellow Wagtail
9 Sand Martin
7 Swallow
1 Water Rail
2 Gadwall...Pair
2 Tufted Duck...Pair.
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve
1 Ruff
5 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
18 Willow Warbler in song
2 Redshank
14 Swift
4 Swallow
2 Yellow Wagtail.
Chat Moss am
2 Garden Warbler...in Song
2 Sedge Warbler...in song
21 Willow Warbler...in song
6 Rook
5 Yellow Wagtail
3 Oystercatcher
1 Wheatear.
am
Barton Moss
1 Sedge Warbler in song
3 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
24 Starling
18 Whitethroat
22 House Sparrow
24 Swallow
10 House Martin
10 Lapwing
4 Yellow Wagtail
12 Skylark
5 Song Thrush
1 Yellowhammer in song
Chat Moss
3 Wheatear
6 Swallow
2 House Martin
Little Woolden Moss East
2 Curlew
15 Sand Martin
3 Yellow Wagtail
6 Swallow
190 Swift
2 Lesser Redpoll
am
Chat Moss
4 Grey Partridge
4 Yellow Wagtail
7 Wheatear
6 Oystercatcher
2 Shelduck
2 Swallow
120 Swift
1 Sedge Warbler
2 House Martin
Astley Moss this evening:
Male Whinchat in the first field behind Rindle Wood
Six Wheatear; with four behind Rindle Wood, one off Moss Lane and one in field 68
Plenty of well grown young Lapwings in fields off Moss Lane
Young Mistle Thrushes feeding in fields behind Rindle Wood
Midday Visit after Woolston Eyes
Chat Moss
4 Wheatear
2 Swallow
4 Grey Partridge...2 Pair
3 Yellow Wagtail
4 Yellowhammer
Lapwing sheltering Young from the rain..
2 adult Dunlin and a singing Grasshopper Warbler were the main highlights late morning from the western end of Little Woolden Moss.
Little Woolden Moss Nature Reserve BBS for LWT included
2 Water Rail
1 Grasshopper Warbler...reeling
5 Sedge Warbler...4 in song
1 Marsh Harrier...male
2 White Wagtail
7 Dunlin
1 Common Sandpiper
8 Yellow Wagtail
3 Oystercatcher
2 Redshank
1 Peregrine...male
1 Sparrowhawk...male
16 House Martin
130 Swift
31 Willow Warbler...in song
75 Swallow
....and after the Survey sat and watched over the East Pool....a downpour including hail soon passed but then from the east @ 1248 came a mixed flock of Hirundine and Swift which dipped lower over the pool but then carried on in a SW direction carrying away the Red-Rumped Swallow that was with them!
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve West Midday Visit after Woolston
160 Swift
45 Sand Martin
37 House Martin
42 Swallow
all four species held back by the weather and feeding low over the pools
1 Greenshank
3 Oystercatcher
3 Redshank
6 Yellow Wagtail
3 Dunlin dropped in at noon
1 Curlew
Little Woolden Moss LWT Reserve late afternoon/early evening today:
5 Dunlin
1 Greenshank
1 Redshank
2 Oystercatcher
1 Common Sandpiper
16 Yellow Wagtails
7 White Wagtails
5 Wheatears
Female Marsh Harrier
am
Chat Moss
1 Garden Warbler in song
2 Wheatear
20 Willow Warbler in song
3 Mediterranean Gull...1 Adult 2 Immature one of which appeared to be displaying to the adult! unable to read white darvic
3 Yellowhammer
4 Yellow Wagtail
3 Lapwing...young
Astley Moss...BBS for LWT
6 Wheatear
1 Whimbrel
1 Willow Tit
3 Oystercatcher
1 Ringed Plover
9 Linnet
1 Nuthatch
24 Willow Warbler
12 Meadow Pipit
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Wednesday 5th of May 2021 08:31:13 PM
am
Irlam Moss
3 Wheatear
3 Yellow Wagtail
2 Yellowhammer
Chat Moss
7 Wheatear
2 Yellowhammer
2 Yellow Wagtail
2 Tufted Duck...Pair
2 Teal...pair
4 Greylag Geese
1 Sedge Warbler...in song
16 Willow Warbler...in song
1 Dunlin...Overflying @ 1010
56 Lesser Black-Backed Gull
3 Swallow
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve
12 Willow Warbler...in song
1 Water rail
2 Sedge Warbler...in song
1 Curlew...in Display
6 Swallow
3 Oystercatcher
1 Redshank
1 Wheatear
5 Yellow Wagtail
21 Linnet
Two Whimbrel NW through Little Woolden Moss this afternoon, also 6 Wheatear and 6 Yellow Wagtail, one of which was the male Channel Wagtail still around the western edge of the reserve.
am...Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve with Al Warford
2 Shelduck---pair
18 Willow Warbler
1 Marsh Harrier
2 Oystercatcher
6 Yellow Wagtail
1 Sedge Warbler
2 Snipe
Then after Bye to Al...over to Chat Moss
4 Whimbrel
2 Whinchat...males
1 Greenshank
2 Shelduck...pair
7 Yellow Wagtail
7 Yellowhammer
2 Fieldfare
13 Wheatear
2 Teal...pair
Late Record AM yesterday 020521
Irlam Moss
23 Skylark
5 Wheatear
2 Grey Partridge
2 Fieldfare
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve
2 Curlew...pair
1 Redshank
2 Oystercatcher
2 Yellow Wagtail
1 Siskin
1 Marsh Harrier...male
1 White Wagtail
150 Swallow dropped in to avoid heavy rain
90 Swift
Chat Moss
2 Yellow Wagtail
34 Stock Dove.
Still one Whimbrel in the field before the old carrot field despite some idiot with bins and a scope walking through the middle of the field !!!!!
Little Woolden:
Swift 20, Ringed Plover 2, Dunlin 1, Greenshank 1, Marsh Harrier 2, Peregrine 1, Sedge Warbler 4, Grasshopper Warbler 1, Whinchat 3 possibly 4, Wheatear 3, Yellow Wagtail 5, White Wagtail 2.
Chats Moss:
Greenshank 1, Shoveler 1.
Rindle area: 1 Whimbrel, 3 Wheatears.
Around the Doctor Who house on Irlam Moss: 2 Whinchat, 5+ Yellow Wagtails, 1 Wheatear, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 House Martin, Swifts.
Little Woolden Moss: 2 Yellow Wagtails, 1 White Wagtail.
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 2nd of May 2021 03:22:13 PM
Midday Visit after doing a CBC at Woolston Eyes
Little Woolden Moss LWT Nature Reserve...West
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Dunlin
2 Ringed Plover
2 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
1 Redshank
4 Yellow Wagtail
3 Whitethroat
1 Sedge Warbler
39 Swallow
32 Swift
14 Sand Martin
1 Marsh Harrier...Male
Croxdens peat works, Chat moss.
Wood sandpiper.
Common sandpiper.
Both in the small channel at the west end of the ponds.
Little Woolden moss.
2 Dunlin.
5 Wheatear.
2 Common sandpiper.
Marsh harrier ( f).
Mediterranean gull.
30+ Swifts.
Rindle area, Astley Moss this morning:
Whinchat, 3 Wheatear, male White Wagtail (with 3 Pieds) and male Channel Wagtail still in field 68
2 Grey Partridge and a Wheatear in field 67
Astley moss.
Cuckoo flying over the ploughed field behind Rindle woods towards the SSSI. Also in the fields at the moment are ,
2 Whimbrel.
2 Oystercatchers.
3 Wheatear.
1 Yellow wagtail.
2 Yellowhammers.
3 Skylarks.
am
Chat Moss
1 Greenshank
7 Tufted Duck
2 Teal
2 Mediterranean Gull
2 Fieldfare
3 Snipe
18 Willow Warbler
1 Peregrine
1 Common Gull
16 Wheatear
40 Stock Dove
1 Curlew
Little Woolden Moss Nature Reserve East
1 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
1 Wood Sandpiper
24 Swift
Cracking little morning with Pete Berry around the Rindle area of Astley Moss produced highlights of:
2 Whimbrel in the middle field of the three directly behind Rindle Wood
5 Wheatear, with one in the same field as the Whimbrel and 4 split between fields 68 and 67
1 splendid Whinchat feeding in the ploughed section of field 68
1 male Channel Wagtail (Blue-headed x Yellow Wagtail) in the ploughed section of field 68, came really close to us at times (very vocal too), which was good as neither of us had brought a 'scope! The bird eventually flew off strongly south across the railway towards Chat Moss field 58 (where I have previously recorded a male on territory a couple of years ago).
1 male White Wagtail in field 68, with a few Pied Wagtails
3 Yellowhammer, including two constantly battling males flying around the edge of field 67, oblivious to their proximity to us!
A very well fledged brood of Song Thrushes just past Rindle Cottages
1 Red Kite. (Thanks to the gent who pointed to the sky above me!)
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel
2 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Wood Sandpiper
1 Spotted Redshank
1 Mediterranean Gull
2 Wheatear
3 Swift
6 Swallow
6 Whitethroat
10 Willow Warbler (minimum)
1 Moorhen
Many Skylarks
Midday Visit Little Woolden Moss west after a morn at Woolston Eyes
8 Yellow Wagtail
1 House Martin
18 Swallow paused on their migration due to a shower
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Redshank
1 Curlew
2 Mute Swan
3 Wheatear
5 Sand Martin.
Apologies for the poor photo quality, it was quite some distance away.
29/04/2021 10:40 - Whimbrel - two on the middle of three fields immediately adjacent to Astley Moss SSSI.
Wheatear - one on the newly worked field by Rindle Cottages and one next to the whimbrels by Astley Moss SSSI