Glaucous Gull - 1st winter bird in the roost again
also......female Common Scoter and 2 Scaup...info per R Travis.
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Robert Adderley said
Sun Jan 18 7:20 PM, 2009
Sun 18th January pm
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter bird observed in the roost.
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 (adult and 3rd winter)
No sign of the Iceland tonight.
Robert Adderley said
Sun Jan 18 12:45 PM, 2009
Sorry John, 1st winter Iceland apparently appeared at 4.10pm last night - info per P Wren.
John Rayner said
Sat Jan 17 6:17 PM, 2009
Sat 17th Jan
Adult Yellow-legged Gull this afternoon but larger Gull numbers seemed to be low with high numbers of Black-headed and Common Gulls at roost. Apart from gulls c25 Goosander, c15 Goldeneye. No sign of yesterday's Iceland Gull but there were still birders looking through the flock as I left at 16.00.
Cheers, John
-- Edited by John Rayner at 18:19, 2009-01-17
Robert Adderley said
Fri Jan 16 8:21 PM, 2009
Friday 16/01/09
Iceland Gull - 1st winter in the roost.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 adult and prob 3rd winter late in the roost. Great-Black-backed Gull - c30
Little Grebe - 1
Andrew Newall said
Wed Jan 14 10:40 PM, 2009
Weds 14/1/09 am 6.45 to 8.45
got my new key yesterday so thought id have an early morning visit.
huge gull roost split over all three reservoirs when i arrived and present until around 8.15, still trying to work hard on my gulls so could of been something decent but i didnt see it.
LBB, Herring, Common and Black Headed all present
4 goosander ( 1 male & 3 females ) 23 Goldeneye ( 9 males & 14 females ) 1 Mute Swan 9 GC Grebes 1 Juve Little Grebe was fishing at the entrance to the well in the corner of no 3. 33 Tuffties 5 pied wags
and not a wader in sight
Had well over 2000 jackaws in 2 seperate flocks.
Cheers
Andrew
Robert Adderley said
Thu Jan 8 9:28 PM, 2009
Thurs - 8/1/09
1st winter Glaucous Gull in the roost again also 3 Scaup today (info per R Travis).
Robert Adderley said
Tue Jan 6 9:14 PM, 2009
Tues 6th Jan
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter in the roost again - (info per R Travis)
Robert Adderley said
Mon Jan 5 8:46 PM, 2009
Mon 5th Jan - pm
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter bird in the roost from around 4pm.
Very few large Gulls otherwise with just 38 Herring Gulls, and small Gull numbers appear to be reduced as well.
Redshank - 3 Peregrine - 1 juv
Paul Heaton said
Sun Jan 4 5:47 PM, 2009
A huge number of gulls tonight, thousand of them sat on the ice of a frozen number 3 res.
I found a cracking Glaucous gull , and was very pleased, till that cad Mr Raynor came along and said there were two,imagine that who saw it first, one for Ian to sort out!
1 Redshank taking the mickey, as this was my bogey bird last January. 20+ Goldeneye 30+ Goosander 23 Canada geese and a hybrid white one, if its not a hybrid I saw it first Ian.
700+ Jackdaws going to roost.
reports of an iceland gull the other day as well.
Keep Birding
Paul Heaton said
Sun Dec 21 4:43 PM, 2008
A festive roost tonight, vast rafts of gulls looking like a snow covered res. mainly common gulls LBB and BH Gulls.
40 Goldeneye 17 tufted 7 cormorants plus one with a green darvic ring CO? could not read last letter the ring was on its left leg. 50 jackdaw 4 crows 1 Redshank 17 Goosander large gull 30+ Bh gulls 300+
very wet and cold.
Keep Birding.
Ian McKerchar said
Fri Nov 7 3:18 PM, 2008
NOTICE TO AUDENSHAW RESERVOIR PERMIT HOLDERS - Some of you may already be aware that the padlock to the gate used by Permit holders "disappeared" over the weekend. United Utilities have been contacted regarding this issue and are in the process of obtaining a new lock and keys which will be distributed to all permit holders in due course. In the meantime they have secured the gate with a temporary padlock for which there will be no means of access.
Robert Adderley said
Sun Nov 2 8:06 PM, 2008
2/11/08....
No sign of the Purple Sand today.
am.
Swan Sp - 7 over WSW mid am on size and call were almost certainly Bewick's. Pink-footed Goose - 62 over SE. Common Scoter - 1 female/immature Wigeon - 1 Teal - 1 Dunlin - 1
pm (per Paul Wren)
2 ad Yellow-legged Gulls in the roost
Judith Smith said
Sat Nov 1 4:12 PM, 2008
Still there at about 4pm per Dave Broome
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Nov 1 1:08 PM, 2008
purple sandpiper still present, on number 1 reservoir at 1pm-ish and showing well
Info thanks to brian fielding/pete hines
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Nov 1 10:51 AM, 2008
purple sandpiper present this morning on number 3 reservoir, resting on one of the boats (!), was number 6 boat. Common scoter apparently present also.
Found by paul wren, info thanks to rob and sonia adderley
Robert Adderley said
Sun Oct 26 6:10 PM, 2008
Sun 26/10/08 pm
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ad Wigeon - 1 Little Grebe - 1 Rock Pipit - 1
info thanks to Paul Wren
Kane Brides said
Thu Oct 23 9:26 PM, 2008
Flying into Manchester today over Audenshaw Res, saw what I presume were Whoopers (Could have been Mutes?) flying over Audenshaw around 12:15 - 7 in total.
Goldeneye - 5 Rock Pipit - 1 Meadow Pipit - 9 Linnet - 1 Redpoll - 1 over west.
Robert Adderley said
Wed Oct 15 5:27 PM, 2008
15/10/08...in addition to Paul's post...
ad Yellow-legged Gull - usual bird with LBBG's early am.
Dunlin - 1
Paul Hammond said
Wed Oct 15 11:37 AM, 2008
October 15th 2008 08.30-10.50 Light westerly, mild Cloudy
C40 Tufted Duck 22 Great Crested Grebe 2 Whooper Swan left at 10.10 flying south east 5 Mute Swan Rock Pipit (Rob and Sonia had at least 2 if not 3 this am) at least 79 Golden Plover 4 Goldeneye Cormorant
Paul Hammond said
Tue Oct 14 2:39 PM, 2008
13th October 2008 West to southwesterlies 07.30 - 10.35 overcast
Tufted Duck 75 GC Grebe 18 Redwing 6 Lesser Redpoll Mute Swan 2 adult and a juvenile Pochard 3m 2f Cormorant 2 Goldeneye 4 Coot Sparrowhawk f
14th October 2008 light southerly breeze overcast 08.45-12.45
Tufted Duck C50 GC Grebe 14 Mute Swan 5 Cormorant 2 Whooper Swan Goldeneye 4 Grey Plover calling as it flew south east
John Rayner said
Sun Oct 5 9:09 PM, 2008
3.00 - 4.45. Not much action so counted Tufties - 67
female Common Scoter still present this morning (info per John Ireland)
Robert Adderley said
Mon Sep 22 8:30 PM, 2008
Mon - 22/9/08 5.20pm - 7pm
additional species to the previous post
Common Scoter - 1 female Yellow-legged Gull - 1 adult Dunlin - 2 Common Sand - 3 Golden Plover - 50 Wheatear - 1
The advice Mr Heaton refers to was a somewhat unkind text for him to take his bins next time, but to be fair the Scoter (picked up by Paul Wren) was hiding behind the boats, the YLG arrived at 6.30pm, the waders were camoflaged against the stonework and the Wheatear was er.....a bit skulking!
Paul Heaton said
Mon Sep 22 7:39 PM, 2008
Well John appears your sighting have flown? I had a walk around between 4 and 5
83 Tufted duck 34 Goosander 40 GC Grebes 2 Goldeneye at 4.30 A large flock of canada geese flew in about 115.
11 Goldfinch 7 Pied wags 1 swallo
had some good advise of Rob Adderley today wait but will wait till he puts his sightiings on????
Arrived this morning to be told by Roy, turn back there,s nothing here! so decided to walk all the way round, should have taken Roy advise
Sorry Paul, I couldn't agree less I'm afraid
The point is admirably illustrated on a visit of mine to Porthgwarra several years ago now when my visit coincided with the onset of heavy rain. Undaunted (well it was either go out or stay in the car with a heavily snoring 3 year old son!) I set off out towards the 60ft cover to be met by several birders heading back to the car park who not only looked at me like I was daft (for heading out in the seriously crappy weather) but who also assured me that there was nothing about. All the way up to the 60ft cover and indeed once inside it seemed they were right, nothing about, so a roving tit flock atleast afforded the opportunity to look at something! Needless to say I found a Red-eyed Vireo in with that tit flock and later found out that Porthgwarra's very own local patcher and extremely competent birder had spent a good amount of time in there just prior to my visit and obviously hadn't found it himself (he wasn't best chuffed but went on to find one of his own the very same day at the bottom of the valley!).
The moral of the story? No matter how many birders have trod before you, it's always worth checking any site as it takes but a second for something to drop in or to decide to pop out infront of you after being hidden beforehand
Besides, you saw more than I achieved today
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 23:28, 2008-09-15
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 23:47, 2008-09-15
Paul Heaton said
Mon Sep 15 7:47 PM, 2008
Arrived this morning to be told by Roy, turn back there,s nothing here! so decided to walk all the way round, should have taken Roy advise
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 (1st and 3rd winter birds)
Herring gull - c200
Pochard - 7
East to south easterly breeze
Cloudy
07.10-08.35
12 Goosander
6 Pochard
12 Tufted Duck
24 Goldeneye
Goldcrest
Went very quiet after gull roost departed, nothing unusual amongst them
Sunday 1st February 2009
Strong cold easterly wind
intermittent snow
13 Goosander
5 Cormorant
4 Tufted Duck
21 Goldeneye
Adult Yellow-Legged Gull
Wigeon (male)
-- Edited by Paul Hammond at 07:23, 2009-02-02
20 Goldeneye
30 Tufted duck
500 Jackdaw
2 snipe ( not seen them here before)
1 mute swan
1 Sparrowhawk.
Oh and bloody 100,s of gulls but no white wingers, which I do believe is two nights without one now, so that means points for the next one, I think
Had a pleasant talk with Mr Wren, and we think Ringed Bill gull is long over due.
keep birding.
Yellow-legged Gull - 3rd winter
GBB gull - 57
Black-headed Gull - 1 leucistic bird
Pochard - 5.
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter in the roost again - per P Wren
Scaup - 2
Pochard - 4
13.00-16.30
Cloudy
Sw breeze (cold)
Goldeneye C30
Tufted Duck 18
Little Grebe
Pochard 4
Scaup
Goosander C30
Herring Gull
Glaucous Gull 1st winter
-- Edited by Paul Hammond at 09:34, 2009-01-25
-- Edited by Paul Hammond at 09:34, 2009-01-25
Access by permit only.
Info thanks to Paul Hammond
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter bird in the roost again.
Yellow-legged Gull - 3 (adult, 3rd winter and 1st winter)
GBB Gull - 70
Black-headed Gull - 1 leucistic bird
Wigeon - pair
Pochard - 4
Ringed Plover - 1
Cormorant - 6
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter bird in the roost again
also......female Common Scoter and 2 Scaup...info per R Travis.
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Glaucous Gull - 1st winter bird observed in the roost.
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 (adult and 3rd winter)
No sign of the Iceland tonight.
Adult Yellow-legged Gull this afternoon but larger Gull numbers seemed to be low with high numbers of Black-headed and Common Gulls at roost. Apart from gulls c25 Goosander, c15 Goldeneye. No sign of yesterday's Iceland Gull but there were still birders looking through the flock as I left at 16.00.
Cheers, John
-- Edited by John Rayner at 18:19, 2009-01-17
Iceland Gull - 1st winter in the roost.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 adult and prob 3rd winter late in the roost.
Great-Black-backed Gull - c30
Little Grebe - 1
got my new key yesterday so thought id have an early morning visit.
huge gull roost split over all three reservoirs when i arrived and present until around 8.15, still trying to work hard on my gulls so could of been something decent but i didnt see it.
LBB, Herring, Common and Black Headed all present
4 goosander ( 1 male & 3 females )
23 Goldeneye ( 9 males & 14 females )
1 Mute Swan
9 GC Grebes
1 Juve Little Grebe was fishing at the entrance to the well in the corner of no 3.
33 Tuffties
5 pied wags
and not a wader in sight
Had well over 2000 jackaws in 2 seperate flocks.
Cheers
Andrew
1st winter Glaucous Gull in the roost again also 3 Scaup today (info per R Travis).
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter in the roost again - (info per R Travis)
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter bird in the roost from around 4pm.
Very few large Gulls otherwise with just 38 Herring Gulls, and small Gull numbers appear to be reduced as well.
Redshank - 3
Peregrine - 1 juv
I found a cracking Glaucous gull , and was very pleased, till that cad Mr Raynor came along and said there were two,imagine that who saw it first, one for Ian to sort out!
1 Redshank taking the mickey, as this was my bogey bird last January.
20+ Goldeneye
30+ Goosander
23 Canada geese and a hybrid white one, if its not a hybrid I saw it first Ian.
700+ Jackdaws going to roost.
reports of an iceland gull the other day as well.
Keep Birding
mainly common gulls LBB and BH Gulls.
1 Shoveler
14 mallard
5 Goldeneye
23 Canada geese.
50 plus jackdaw
3 grey wags.
keep Birding.
A quick look after dipping at Elton. Much the same as the 4th without the gull roost numbers.
Goldeneye 5m, 15f
Goosander 4m, 3f
Redshank 3
Goosander 6f, 5m
Goldeneye 9f, 5m
Pochard 1m
Tufted Duck 66
Mute Swan 4
GC Grebe 6
Herring Gull 5
LBB Gull c45
Common Gull c100
BH Gull c800
17 tufted
7 cormorants plus one with a green darvic ring CO? could not read last letter the ring was on its left leg.
50 jackdaw 4 crows
1 Redshank
17 Goosander
large gull 30+
Bh gulls 300+
very wet and cold.
Keep Birding.
In the meantime they have secured the gate with a temporary padlock for which there will be no means of access.
No sign of the Purple Sand today.
am.
Swan Sp - 7 over WSW mid am on size and call were almost certainly Bewick's.
Pink-footed Goose - 62 over SE.
Common Scoter - 1 female/immature
Wigeon - 1
Teal - 1
Dunlin - 1
pm (per Paul Wren)
2 ad Yellow-legged Gulls in the roost
Info thanks to brian fielding/pete hines
Found by paul wren, info thanks to rob and sonia adderley
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ad
Wigeon - 1
Little Grebe - 1
Rock Pipit - 1
info thanks to Paul Wren
Kane
Shoveler - 1
Pochard - 1
Goldeneye - 10
Cormorant - 6
Cold, wet, gloomy, bleak and miserable, but at least I outnumbered the dog walkers for once.
LBB Gull 64
GBB Gull 3
Herring Gull 4
GC Grebe 17
Cormorant 3
Tufted Duck 38
Pochard 5
Mallard 2
Goldeneye 6
Goosander 4 (2m, 2f)
Meadow Pipit 3
Pied Wag 2
Cheers, John
Rock Pipit - 1
Redwing - 40 west
Fieldfare - 4
Goldeneye - 5
Goosander - 19
Pink-footed Goose - 320 over SE 9.30 - 9.40am
Goldeneye - 5
Rock Pipit - 1
Meadow Pipit - 9
Linnet - 1
Redpoll - 1 over west.
ad Yellow-legged Gull - usual bird with LBBG's early am.
Dunlin - 1
08.30-10.50
Light westerly, mild
Cloudy
C40 Tufted Duck
22 Great Crested Grebe
2 Whooper Swan left at 10.10 flying south east
5 Mute Swan
Rock Pipit (Rob and Sonia had at least 2 if not 3 this am)
at least 79 Golden Plover
4 Goldeneye
Cormorant
West to southwesterlies
07.30 - 10.35
overcast
Tufted Duck 75
GC Grebe 18
Redwing 6
Lesser Redpoll
Mute Swan 2 adult and a juvenile
Pochard 3m 2f
Cormorant 2
Goldeneye 4
Coot
Sparrowhawk f
14th October 2008
light southerly breeze
overcast
08.45-12.45
Tufted Duck C50
GC Grebe 14
Mute Swan 5
Cormorant 2
Whooper Swan
Goldeneye 4
Grey Plover calling as it flew south east
Also :
Goosander 3
Goldeneye 3
Mallard 2
GC Grebe 13
Coot 3
Cormorant 3
Lapwing 4
Pied Wagtail 11
Grey Wagtail 1
Linnet 1
Meadow Pipit 2
LBB Gull c65
Herring Gull 1
Common Gull c60
BH Gull c150
YELLOW-LEGGED GULL - 1 adult
Wheatear - 2
Coot - 27
Mute Swan - 4
Goosander - 38
Resisted the temptation to count the Tufties!
Little Gull and Greenshank this am - (info thanks to J Ireland)
Greenshank - 1
Common Sandpiper - 1
Goldeneye - 2
Wheatear - 2
female Common Scoter still present this morning (info per John Ireland)
additional species to the previous post
Common Scoter - 1 female
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 adult
Dunlin - 2
Common Sand - 3
Golden Plover - 50
Wheatear - 1
The advice Mr Heaton refers to was a somewhat unkind text for him to take his bins next time, but to be fair the Scoter (picked up by Paul Wren) was hiding behind the boats, the YLG arrived at 6.30pm, the waders were camoflaged against the stonework and the Wheatear was er.....a bit skulking!
83 Tufted duck
34 Goosander
40 GC Grebes
2 Goldeneye
at 4.30 A large flock of canada geese flew in about 115.
11 Goldfinch
7 Pied wags
1 swallo
had some good advise of Rob Adderley today wait but will wait till he puts his sightiings on????
keep birding
06.30-08.50
Light SW
Sunny
Canada Goose C250
GC Grebe 20
Tufted Duck C80
Goosander 10
Coot 22
C. Sandpiper 2
Dunlin 3
Ringed Plover Juv
Very quiet
Common Sand - 3
Goldeneye - 2
Coot - 27
Meadow Pipit - c20
1 Sanderling this evening (info per Paul Wren)
Sorry Paul, I couldn't agree less I'm afraid
The point is admirably illustrated on a visit of mine to Porthgwarra several years ago now when my visit coincided with the onset of heavy rain. Undaunted (well it was either go out or stay in the car with a heavily snoring 3 year old son!) I set off out towards the 60ft cover to be met by several birders heading back to the car park who not only looked at me like I was daft (for heading out in the seriously crappy weather) but who also assured me that there was nothing about. All the way up to the 60ft cover and indeed once inside it seemed they were right, nothing about, so a roving tit flock atleast afforded the opportunity to look at something! Needless to say I found a Red-eyed Vireo in with that tit flock and later found out that Porthgwarra's very own local patcher and extremely competent birder had spent a good amount of time in there just prior to my visit and obviously hadn't found it himself (he wasn't best chuffed but went on to find one of his own the very same day at the bottom of the valley!).
The moral of the story? No matter how many birders have trod before you, it's always worth checking any site as it takes but a second for something to drop in or to decide to pop out infront of you after being hidden beforehand
Besides, you saw more than I achieved today
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 23:28, 2008-09-15
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 23:47, 2008-09-15
1 common sandpiper
2 dunlin
44 goosander
1 wheater
3 magpies.
listen to those that know best!
keep birding
08.45-10.30
moderate easterly breeze
sunny
Tufted Duck 75
Great Crested Grebe 26
Goosander 14
Shoveler 8
Goldcrest 4
Coot 24
Little Grebe
Wigeon 2
Cormorant
Common Sandpiper 2
Turnstone - 2
Common Sandpiper - 1
Common Tern - 3
Pochard - 1
Goosander - 35
Coot - 25
Wheatear - 1