Mon 2 Nov 15.30hrs

c200 over Manchester City Centre heading East (rapidly with a tailwind!)

02/11/2009 09:55 70+ E over Abram. Info thanks to Terry Thorpe.

Saturday 31 October 2009

A skein heard heading east over Ashton-in-Makerfield at 21:00.

105 east over Pennington Flash at 1630hrs

c100 seen from my living room chair to the east of the garden going east at 9.35 a.m!! The kind of birding I really appreciate.

P.S. I opened the window so I could hear them - just in case they weren't.

40 at 0947hrs this morning over Higher End, Billinge came in from the NE then flew down W on to the Lancashire mosses

Thursday 29 October 2009

c60 west over Wigan Flashes @ 09:35.

c250 very high SE over Oldham - seen from heaton park at 8.55

34 west over Chorlton WP at 14.48

Wednesday 28 October 2009

85 west over Abram Flashes at 09:30. Info thanks to Terry Thorpe.

Wednesday, 28th October at 0820.

120+ over Flixton heading East.

30+ East over Heath St Golborne 8:45 this Morning

Cheers Jimmy

dave broome wrote:

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160 east over Ashton-in-Makerfield 0730hrs this morning

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I heard these, but was still in bed. Heard some more at 09:00, but still hadn't managed to get out of bed by that point.
Saw about 50ish flying fairly low over Bryn Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield at about 10:00, flying SW.

160 east over Ashton-in-Makerfield 0730hrs this morning

This mornings flocks:-

c160 going east over Romliey - 9.05

36 (probably going south east) over Carrington Moss at 10.05

350 south-east over Pennington Flash at 10:30am

info thanks to Barry Hulme, times/directions posted when available

Could I remind folks to include time and direction of Pinkfeet, so that I can make a reasonable guess at duplicates when I add them all up for the county report? Thanks.

750 flew south-east over Pennington Flash at 7:30am this morning.

All sightings today from Pennington Flash and all courtesy of Barry Hulme:

800 south between 7:20-7:40am
150 east
100 north west

240+ flying NE over Brooklands, Sale 07:55 this morning

200+ east over Irlam this morning

An even larger group than yesterday's 300 just went over Hale Cemetry and of course our house in an Easterly direction. Only got onto them from the calls as they were off in the distance - the strong wind at the time masked their calls overhead so couldn't get a better idea of numbers - but it did look a lot more than yesterday.

Henry Cook wrote:

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same group of birds would you think possibly Mike?

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The same group went over the Hale cemetry just before 09.30 going in your direction Henry.

Henry Cook wrote:

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same group of birds would you think possibly Mike?

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Hi Henry

I think they were almost certainly the same birds. I had difficulty counting them though as I was in the car at the time!

I suspect they were making much better progress along the M56 than the local traffic!

Cheers

Mike

-- Edited by Mike Baron on Friday 23rd of October 2009 03:56:15 PM

60+ going east, seen to the SW of my garden (Romiley) at 10.50.

Although out of county these are probably the same birds referred to in the earlier messages.
200+ Pink feet flying due east over Disley at 0945 today.

same group of birds would you think possibly Mike?

300+ over Rixton at 09:10 heading east

c300 over Davenport Green, Hale Barns flying South at 9.30am

80 NW today at 3.55pm over my fiancee's house in Abbey Hey near Gorton Res. and providing a very welcome garden tick there.

150+ flying over Tybyrne Close, Mosley Common at 8am on Saturday 17th.

Apologies, couldn't post earlier as t'interweb connection at home not working properly.

I saw c70 over Bramhall, adswood tip area at 6:20 this evening
First time i have seen them near here
saw loads at martin mere last week so no mistaking them

17/10/09

Over the Abram Flashes :

35>SE @ 08:00
170>SE @ 08:05
100>SE @ 08:15
100>SE @ 08:30

c300 flying E over Timperley 08.25 this morning.

15/10/2009 09:20 100+ NW over Abram. Info thanks to Terry Thorpe.

Late news from the 5th

157 heading west over AMR

Dave

Late note, 80+ 1800hrs over Lanc Cricket Club 12/10/09 flying south east.

c200 pink feet over ashton under lyne flying towards hyde 9am

c200 SE over Ashton in Makerfield this am at around 08.20. Numbers and time are a bit vague as I was driving at the time.

c 250 heading E/SE over Droylsden/Clayton this morning (13th Oct) at 08.45

Monday evening 17-55 approx 150 flying south east over old trafford.

c. 230 NW over the Wigan Flashes at 1125hrs

11th October.

17 east over Piethorne at 9.00 am.

Bill.

38 East over Prestwich @ 17.25

How many, Mike?

Edited - sorry, got it off your AMR posting

-- Edited by Judith Smith on Friday 9th of October 2009 08:27:28 PM

Ashworth Moor Res Fri 9/10 12:30 c. 50 flying to SW

-- Edited by Mike Cooper on Saturday 10th of October 2009 02:43:40 PM

4th October.

Visible from Piethorne but flying well to the south of the valley - probably over the Oldham area? - were 2 seperate skeins of Pink-Feet - c70 and c55 at 8.30 am. The two skeins were only a short distance apart and appeared to be heading south-east. The c70 is probably a slight underestimate as I only just caught the end of the skein as it disappeared out of sight.

Cheers,

Bill.

28 Pink Feet S/E 07:45 Scotmans

41 flew NW over Irlam at 2.45pm

Approx 50 over Beech Hill 4:45 West first of the Autumn