Sounds good. Any new wader would be nice at the moment.
By the way the application to buy the land around the res to build a golf course have been rejected
Yeah Jimmy i also was told its supposed to be for breeding lapwing.
Dean Macdonald said
Sat Sep 8 9:14 PM, 2007
8/9/07 4pm
Pretty much same as you Simon plus a Sedge Warbler and 2 Shoveller.
Still not seen that Winchat it must see me coming and take cover on the other side of the island.
Good to hear about the new scrapes, should bring the waders flooding in.
Dean.
-- Edited by Dean Mac at 21:31, 2007-09-08
Judith Smith said
Sat Sep 8 4:26 PM, 2007
There is a public footpath through Stan's farm running down to the water's edge there, so there shouldn't be any problem with seeing anything that's counted there. Care might be needed though - a hide or screen might not be a bad idea. I'll see if Tony Johnson can do anything.
Jimmy Meadows said
Sat Sep 8 3:05 PM, 2007
hello simon iwent to the wigan biodiversity meeting on thurs and rick parker from bolton said that they was going to start on new scrapes at rumworth to attract breeding lapwings and other waders jimmy
Simon Warford said
Sat Sep 8 1:31 PM, 2007
8/9/2007 12pm Dad and I.
Whinchat - left island still 12 Snipe 20 Lapwing 8 Teal 3 Little grebe 5 Grey Herons Few Jackdaws 1 Juv G C Grebe still Fem Sparrowhawk
Of Interest Judith, spoke to a chap at Rumworth today Fred Lovall from Bolton Conservation Volunteers who told me that they are digging out a scrape on Stan Terrys land at the back of the res, JCB's due to arrive today. Dont know what size they will be and how viewable they will be but looks like they are doing quite abit of work on his land soon Sounds like a really environmentally friendly farmer, putting in some more hedges and ditches and he avoids use of pesticides etc.So we shall see what happens.
-- Edited by warfy at 14:08, 2007-09-08
Dean Macdonald said
Fri Sep 7 9:18 PM, 2007
Hi Simon, Can't seem to find that Winchat, i'll try again tomorrow afternoon. Need it for my county list
Dean.
Simon Warford said
Fri Sep 7 7:06 PM, 2007
7/9/2007 5pm
Whinchat - still present left hand island (this second bird to occupy the island has been there now at least 11 days) 10 Snipe 3 Teal 2 Little Grebes 1 Young G C Grebe with a few adults 15 Jackdaw
No sign of any Terns.
Dean Macdonald said
Wed Sep 5 9:19 PM, 2007
Wed 5 sept 6.30pm 5 Common Tern 6 Snipe 4 Little Grebe 2 Lapwing 4 Teal Great Crested Grebes 1 fem Sparrowhawk Lots of Swallows and House Martins Loads of Jackdaw and Magpies. Plus the usual stuff.
Dean.
-- Edited by Dean Mac at 21:22, 2007-09-05
Dean Macdonald said
Tue Sep 4 9:10 PM, 2007
Tues 4 sept 7pm
4 Snipe 2 Little Grebe 1 Lapwing(!) Lots of silhouettes
Decent Crow roost building up about 60 Jackdaws in back field and 25 Magpies sat on the fence. 1 Jackdaw showing white wing patches.
Dean.
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Sep 4 7:08 PM, 2007
Monday 3rd Sept, 12:15pm
Wheatear- 1 Common Tern- 4 Snipe- 1
Tuesday 4th Sept, 3:30pm
Whinchat- 1 Pochard- 1 Lapwing- 11 (guess who yet? ) Common Tern- 1
All info thanks to Phil Rhodes (yes, you were right!)
Dean Macdonald said
Sat Sep 1 5:50 PM, 2007
Sat 1st Sept.
Just managed an hour today. Laid up with a bad back
Snipe 2 Little Grebe 4 Common Tern 6 Pied Wagtail Heron 3 Great Crested Grebe 4 at least Loads of Swallows.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes (incase you hadn't guessed from the Lapwing count )
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Aug 29 2:22 PM, 2007
Wednesday 29th August 07:15
Redstart- 1 fem/imm in hedge running down to marsh, eventually flew to the small copse in the marsh. Snipe- 5, left hand island Common Tern- 8, including 3 juvs
No sign (or sound) of the Redstart at 13:30, when I had another look.
Ian Woosey said
Sun Aug 26 7:18 PM, 2007
26/8/07 late afternoon
Buzzard heading south. female Whinchat on the left hand island (thought to be a different bird to the `tail-less` individual) Common Sandpiper. 4 Snipe. 12 Common Terns (4 juv). 2 Little Grebe. Teal.
S & A Warford & I Woosey
Simon Warford said
Fri Aug 24 6:18 PM, 2007
24/8/2007 Late Afternoon
1 Common Sand 10 Snipe 4 Teal 11 Common Terns includung 4 Juveniles on the island (almost certainly the ones from Doffcocker) Little Grebe
Simon Warford said
Mon Aug 20 7:35 PM, 2007
20/8/2007 Late Afternoon
1 Common Sand 3 Oystercatchers (2 Imm) 7 Snipe 9 Tufties 4 Common Terns Sparrowhawk, female.
Simon Warford said
Sun Aug 19 3:08 PM, 2007
19/8/2007 Mid Morning
1 Common Sand 16 Snipe 3 Oystercatchers (2imm) 4 Teal 4 Common Tern 3 Tufties 2 Little Grebes 1 Goldcrest
Virtually no mud left now.
Simon Warford said
Fri Aug 17 8:50 PM, 2007
17/8/2007 Mid Afternoon
Very poor...
7 Snipe 2 Teal 8 Common Terns 2 Little Grebes
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Aug 16 11:03 PM, 2007
Thursday 16th 6:30pm.
Ringed Plover- 1 Common Sand- 2 Snipe- 12 Lapwing- 12 Wheatear- 1 Water Rail- 1 Kingfisher- 1 Common Tern- 5 Swift- 3
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Simon Warford said
Wed Aug 15 6:24 PM, 2007
15/8/2007 Late Afternoon.
Water level is goin up again
Juv Ringed Plover 3 Common Sand 10 Snipe 2 1st Winter Oystercatchers 6 Common Terns 8 Tufted Ducks
Alan Warford said
Tue Aug 14 6:25 PM, 2007
14th August Late Afternoon - wet
Juv Ringed Plover 3 Common Sand 16 Snipe 1 Imm Oystercatcher 3 Common Terns 2 Grey Herons 2 Little Grebes 40+ Lapwing plus Phil Rhodes
-- Edited by Alan Warford at 19:33, 2007-08-14
-- Edited by Alan Warford at 19:35, 2007-08-14
Simon Warford said
Mon Aug 13 7:09 PM, 2007
13/8/2007 - Just beat me to it Ian, 5.30-6.30pm
Whinchat still on left Island (seems to show well in the evenings) Juv Ringed Plover 3 Common Sand 2 Imm Oystercatchers 3 Snipe 6 Common Tern 3 Little Grebes
-- Edited by warfy at 19:12, 2007-08-13
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Aug 13 7:05 PM, 2007
Monday 13th August, 3pm.
Whinchat- 1 juv Ringed Plover- 1 juv Common Sand- 4 Snipe- 4 Common Tern- 6 Lapwing- 40
Info thanks to Phil (Lapwing counter extraordinaire) Rhodes
Simon Warford said
Sun Aug 12 10:49 AM, 2007
12/8/2007 Early am
1 Green Sand 3 Common Sand 1 Imm Oystercatcher 5 Snipe 3 Little Grebes 8 Tufted Duck 5 Common Terns 25 Jackdaws 11 G C Grebes 3 Grey Heron
Simon Warford said
Sat Aug 11 11:34 AM, 2007
11/8/2007 8.30-10am
1 Green Sand 2 Common Sand 8 Snipe 4 Little Grebes 5 Common Tern 8 Tufted Duck 11 G C Grebe
Right im off to the Reebok
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Aug 11 10:24 AM, 2007
Late news for yesterday Friday the 10th August, mid am.
Common Tern- 7, including 2 immatures, adults now beginning to moult their black caps. Snipe- 5 Common Sandpiper- 1
Simon Warford said
Fri Aug 10 11:02 PM, 2007
Geoff, look on the "County sites and maps" part of the website, some directions on there, park on Beaumont Road(A58) adjacent to the Res where you will see a pull in and a stile then just walk down accross the field and view from around the trees to avoid disturbance.
Oh and its Warfy
-- Edited by warfy at 23:38, 2007-08-10
Geoff Hargreaves said
Fri Aug 10 8:08 PM, 2007
warhy help me out,i know where rumworth is but were do you park and where do you watch from. cheers geoff
Simon Warford said
Fri Aug 10 7:03 PM, 2007
10/8/2007 Mid Afternoon
Whinchat - on left island still (11th Day) & Sedge Warbler in same patch of nettles. 1 Shoveler 1 Teal 2 Little Grebe 8 Tufted Duck 5 Common Tern 1 Common Sand 14 Snipe
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Aug 8 1:02 PM, 2007
Sorry for the late posting but I do occasionally do a little bit of work when I'm on nights anyway...
Tuseday 7th August
1 Common Sand 50 Lapwing
All info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Aug 6 3:47 PM, 2007
Monday, 6th august 1.35pm.
2nd winter Mediterranean Gull Whinchat still present
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 20:42, 2007-08-06
Simon Warford said
Sun Aug 5 1:56 PM, 2007
5/8/2007 Late Morning
Bumped into Phil and he wasnt counting the Lapwings
Pretty quiet here too but the water level is dropping fast so theres hope!
Whinchat - juv bird with no tail left hand island 10 Tufted Duck 2 Little Grebes 4 Common Tern Oystercatchers family of 2 ads and 2 juvs still.
Phil had a Green Sand on the 2nd August.
-- Edited by warfy at 14:43, 2007-08-05
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Aug 1 10:51 PM, 2007
warfy wrote:
1/8/2007 Late Afternoon
Is Phil on a Lapwing counting mission
No, it's definately just a 'Phil thing'
Simon Warford said
Wed Aug 1 6:57 PM, 2007
1/8/2007 Late Afternoon
Whinchat 9 Tufted Duck 2 Little Grebe Cormorant 4 Common Tern 1 Snipe 3 Willow Warblers
Is Phil on a Lapwing counting mission
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Aug 1 6:22 PM, 2007
Wednesday 01/08, 11am
Whinchat- 1 by the inlet
Snipe- 3
Lapwing- 112
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian Woosey said
Tue Jul 31 10:13 AM, 2007
31/7/07 early morning
f/imm Whinchat. 5 Snipe (on the left hand island) Kingfisher perched at the back. 6 Common Tern. 2 Sedge Warbler (adult feeding a juv.) 3 Little Grebe 2 broods of Tufted Duck ; one with 2, the other with 4. Sparrowhawk Gropper reeling briefly (still haven`t seen the blighter !)
Simon Warford said
Sat Jul 28 11:28 PM, 2007
Far side of res behind the islands Dean when i was there, one of them was also flying around, water level still very high unfortunately, not going to be the usual amount of waders this Autumn.
Dean Macdonald said
Sat Jul 28 9:12 PM, 2007
Where the Snipe on the islands?
Dean.
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Jul 28 8:52 PM, 2007
Saturday 28th July, around dinner time.
4 Shelduck 9 Common Tern 3 Snipe 60 Lapwing
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes, sorry couldn't post earlierbut little gremlins in the forum prevented me
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 21:06, 2007-07-28
Simon Warford said
Sat Jul 28 4:21 PM, 2007
28/07/2007 Early Afternoon
2 Little Grebe 4 Tufted Duck 11 Common Terns incl at least 4 sat in back field with the gulls 5 Oystercatchers - 3 Adults and 2 well grown juveniles 2 Snipe Sparrowhawk 3 Kestrels Grasshopper Warbler - still singing!
PS Glad you got the Black Tern Mr Woosey
-- Edited by warfy at 16:22, 2007-07-28
Ian Woosey said
Mon Jul 23 4:11 PM, 2007
Hi Simon,
Black Tern still present at 15.15, spending some time loafing on the back field with the Black-headed Gulls and a few Common Terns. When it ventures out over the water the other Terns hassle it !
Simon Warford said
Mon Jul 23 2:01 PM, 2007
23/07/2007 Early Afternoon
Black Tern - Nice summer plumage although just starting to moult, still present 1.25pm when i left. 5 Common Tern 2 Little Grebe 3 Tufties 1 Pochard 5 Oystercatchers (3 adults and 2 well grown young now in field at back) 2 Grasshopper Warblers - 1 singing reedbed and usual one to right as you walk down 3 Sedge Warblers.
-- Edited by warfy at 14:02, 2007-07-23
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Jul 23 1:12 PM, 2007
Monday 23rd, dinner (ish).
Full breeding plumaged Black Tern present.
Info thanks to Simon Warford, hopefully more details from him to follow later
Ian McKerchar said
Sun Jul 22 8:14 PM, 2007
sunday 22nd july- 2 redshank, 1 dunlin, 80 lapwing, 5 common terns (all info thanks to phil rhodes, this message was posted using my mobile phone!)
By the way the application to buy the land around the res to build a golf course have been rejected
Yeah Jimmy i also was told its supposed to be for breeding lapwing.
Pretty much same as you Simon plus a Sedge Warbler and 2 Shoveller.
Still not seen that Winchat it must see me coming and take cover on the other side of the island.
Good to hear about the new scrapes, should bring the waders flooding in.
Dean.
-- Edited by Dean Mac at 21:31, 2007-09-08
on thurs and rick parker from bolton said that they was going to start
on new scrapes at rumworth to attract breeding lapwings and other waders
jimmy
Whinchat - left island still
12 Snipe
20 Lapwing
8 Teal
3 Little grebe
5 Grey Herons
Few Jackdaws
1 Juv G C Grebe still
Fem Sparrowhawk
Of Interest Judith, spoke to a chap at Rumworth today Fred Lovall from Bolton Conservation Volunteers who told me that they are digging out a scrape on Stan Terrys land at the back of the res, JCB's due to arrive today. Dont know what size they will be and how viewable they will be but looks like they are doing quite abit of work on his land soon Sounds like a really environmentally friendly farmer, putting in some more hedges and ditches and he avoids use of pesticides etc.So we shall see what happens.
-- Edited by warfy at 14:08, 2007-09-08
Hi Simon,
Can't seem to find that Winchat, i'll try again tomorrow afternoon. Need it for my county list
Dean.
Whinchat - still present left hand island (this second bird to occupy the island has been there now at least 11 days)
10 Snipe
3 Teal
2 Little Grebes
1 Young G C Grebe with a few adults
15 Jackdaw
No sign of any Terns.
5 Common Tern
6 Snipe
4 Little Grebe
2 Lapwing
4 Teal
Great Crested Grebes
1 fem Sparrowhawk
Lots of Swallows and House Martins
Loads of Jackdaw and Magpies.
Plus the usual stuff.
Dean.
-- Edited by Dean Mac at 21:22, 2007-09-05
Tues 4 sept 7pm
4 Snipe
2 Little Grebe
1 Lapwing(!)
Lots of silhouettes
Decent Crow roost building up about 60 Jackdaws in back field and 25 Magpies sat on the fence.
1 Jackdaw showing white wing patches.
Dean.
Wheatear- 1
Common Tern- 4
Snipe- 1
Tuesday 4th Sept, 3:30pm
Whinchat- 1
Pochard- 1
Lapwing- 11 (guess who yet? )
Common Tern- 1
All info thanks to Phil Rhodes (yes, you were right!)
Sat 1st Sept.
Just managed an hour today. Laid up with a bad back
Snipe 2
Little Grebe 4
Common Tern 6
Pied Wagtail
Heron 3
Great Crested Grebe 4 at least
Loads of Swallows.
Dean.
Whinchat- 1
Wheatear- 1
Snipe- 10
Lapwing- 138
Common Tern- 9
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes (incase you hadn't guessed from the Lapwing count )
Redstart- 1 fem/imm in hedge running down to marsh, eventually flew to the small copse in the marsh.
Snipe- 5, left hand island
Common Tern- 8, including 3 juvs
No sign (or sound) of the Redstart at 13:30, when I had another look.
Buzzard heading south.
female Whinchat on the left hand island (thought to be a different bird to the `tail-less` individual)
Common Sandpiper.
4 Snipe.
12 Common Terns (4 juv).
2 Little Grebe.
Teal.
S & A Warford & I Woosey
1 Common Sand
10 Snipe
4 Teal
11 Common Terns includung 4 Juveniles on the island (almost certainly the ones from Doffcocker)
Little Grebe
1 Common Sand
3 Oystercatchers (2 Imm)
7 Snipe
9 Tufties
4 Common Terns
Sparrowhawk, female.
1 Common Sand
16 Snipe
3 Oystercatchers (2imm)
4 Teal
4 Common Tern
3 Tufties
2 Little Grebes
1 Goldcrest
Virtually no mud left now.
Very poor...
7 Snipe
2 Teal
8 Common Terns
2 Little Grebes
Ringed Plover- 1
Common Sand- 2
Snipe- 12
Lapwing- 12
Wheatear- 1
Water Rail- 1
Kingfisher- 1
Common Tern- 5
Swift- 3
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Water level is goin up again
Juv Ringed Plover
3 Common Sand
10 Snipe
2 1st Winter Oystercatchers
6 Common Terns
8 Tufted Ducks
Juv Ringed Plover
3 Common Sand
16 Snipe
1 Imm Oystercatcher
3 Common Terns
2 Grey Herons
2 Little Grebes
40+ Lapwing
plus Phil Rhodes
-- Edited by Alan Warford at 19:33, 2007-08-14
-- Edited by Alan Warford at 19:35, 2007-08-14
Whinchat still on left Island (seems to show well in the evenings)
Juv Ringed Plover
3 Common Sand
2 Imm Oystercatchers
3 Snipe
6 Common Tern
3 Little Grebes
-- Edited by warfy at 19:12, 2007-08-13
Whinchat- 1 juv
Ringed Plover- 1 juv
Common Sand- 4
Snipe- 4
Common Tern- 6
Lapwing- 40
Info thanks to Phil (Lapwing counter extraordinaire) Rhodes
1 Green Sand
3 Common Sand
1 Imm Oystercatcher
5 Snipe
3 Little Grebes
8 Tufted Duck
5 Common Terns
25 Jackdaws
11 G C Grebes
3 Grey Heron
1 Green Sand
2 Common Sand
8 Snipe
4 Little Grebes
5 Common Tern
8 Tufted Duck
11 G C Grebe
Right im off to the Reebok
Common Tern- 7, including 2 immatures, adults now beginning to moult their black caps.
Snipe- 5
Common Sandpiper- 1
Oh and its Warfy
-- Edited by warfy at 23:38, 2007-08-10
watch from.
cheers geoff
Whinchat - on left island still (11th Day) & Sedge Warbler in same patch of nettles.
1 Shoveler
1 Teal
2 Little Grebe
8 Tufted Duck
5 Common Tern
1 Common Sand
14 Snipe
Tuseday 7th August
1 Common Sand
50 Lapwing
All info thanks to Phil Rhodes
2nd winter Mediterranean Gull
Whinchat still present
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 20:42, 2007-08-06
Bumped into Phil and he wasnt counting the Lapwings
Pretty quiet here too but the water level is dropping fast so theres hope!
Whinchat - juv bird with no tail left hand island
10 Tufted Duck
2 Little Grebes
4 Common Tern
Oystercatchers family of 2 ads and 2 juvs still.
Phil had a Green Sand on the 2nd August.
-- Edited by warfy at 14:43, 2007-08-05
No, it's definately just a 'Phil thing'
Whinchat
9 Tufted Duck
2 Little Grebe
Cormorant
4 Common Tern
1 Snipe
3 Willow Warblers
Is Phil on a Lapwing counting mission
Whinchat- 1 by the inlet
Snipe- 3
Lapwing- 112
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
f/imm Whinchat.
5 Snipe (on the left hand island)
Kingfisher perched at the back.
6 Common Tern.
2 Sedge Warbler (adult feeding a juv.)
3 Little Grebe
2 broods of Tufted Duck ; one with 2, the other with 4.
Sparrowhawk
Gropper reeling briefly (still haven`t seen the blighter !)
Dean.
4 Shelduck
9 Common Tern
3 Snipe
60 Lapwing
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes, sorry couldn't post earlierbut little gremlins in the forum prevented me
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 21:06, 2007-07-28
2 Little Grebe
4 Tufted Duck
11 Common Terns incl at least 4 sat in back field with the gulls
5 Oystercatchers - 3 Adults and 2 well grown juveniles
2 Snipe
Sparrowhawk
3 Kestrels
Grasshopper Warbler - still singing!
PS Glad you got the Black Tern Mr Woosey
-- Edited by warfy at 16:22, 2007-07-28
Black Tern still present at 15.15, spending some time loafing on the back field with the Black-headed Gulls and a few Common Terns. When it ventures out over the water the other Terns hassle it !
Black Tern - Nice summer plumage although just starting to moult, still present 1.25pm when i left.
5 Common Tern
2 Little Grebe
3 Tufties
1 Pochard
5 Oystercatchers (3 adults and 2 well grown young now in field at back)
2 Grasshopper Warblers - 1 singing reedbed and usual one to right as you walk down
3 Sedge Warblers.
-- Edited by warfy at 14:02, 2007-07-23
Full breeding plumaged Black Tern present.
Info thanks to Simon Warford, hopefully more details from him to follow later
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 20:15, 2007-07-22
1 Common Sand
138 Lapwing
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
5 Common Terns
5 Oyks (2 Ads & 3 Juvs)
Reed Bunting singing & Grasshopper Warb reeling.
Cheers Kane
-- Edited by Kane Brides at 20:10, 2007-07-17
-- Edited by Kane Brides at 20:10, 2007-07-17
2 Little Grebes
4 Tufted Duck
2 Common Terns
5 Oystercatchers (2 ad & 3 Juvs - learning to swim)
60 Lapwing.
Juvenile Wheatear, 1st summer Common Gull, 4 adult Common Terns, 48 Lapwing.
All info thanks to Phil Rhodes
2 Little Grebes
10 Tufted Duck
7 Common Terns
5 Oystercatchers (2 ad and 3 chicks )
4 Reed Warbler
Water level is still very high,
Black-tailed Godwit present at 12:20 only (info thanks to Phil Rhodes)