Really surprised at the water levels today No 1 res was half empty or half full which ever way your boat floats!
Anway 2 turnstones still present
55 goosanders 36 tufted 1 pochard 300 gulls all sunning on the embankments Bh gulls LBB common gull etc, 4 common tern on No 2 3 swallows 5 wheater A raptor came through fast at 15.30 sadly very fast did not get enough on it and by then I was too interested in the reported cowbird in cheshire
keep birding
Paul Hammond said
Sun Sep 7 1:04 PM, 2008
7th September 2008 06.35 - 09.20 Light Showers North Westerly breeze
Canada Goose 50 Tufted Duck C95 Goosander 44 Great Crested Grebe 27 Coot 13 Swallow C20 Pied Wagtail C15 Goldeneye Lapwing C150 Common Tern briefly Sand Martin C20 Ruddy Duck Pochard male Cormorant House Martin C10 Turnstone 2 Wheatear 2
10th August 2008 06.15 to 08.35 Moderate West by south west breeze
Goosander 20 Oystercatcher Great Crested Grebe at least 20 Tufted Duck at least 50 Common Sandpiper 2 Ringed Plover 2 Dunlin Coot 2 Lapwing 9 Pochard male Linnet 6 Cormorant
Robert Adderley said
Sat Aug 9 12:15 PM, 2008
9/8/08 ....early am
Black-necked Grebe - 1 juv. Little Grebe - 1
Common Scoter - 1 female Pochard - 1
Common Sandpiper - 2 Dunlin - 5 Ringed Plover - 2
Yellow-legged Gull - ad with LBB Gulls until 8.10am when it flew NE.
Swift - c50.
Robert Adderley said
Mon Aug 4 4:20 PM, 2008
4/8/08 late am
female Common Scoter still present on no 1 Resv.
28 Goosander
Otherwise quiet.
evening - no sign of the reported possible Red-necked Grebe.
ad Yellow-legged Gull in the roost
50 Goosander 1 Pochard 1 Common Sandpiper
-- Edited by Robert Adderley at 22:00, 2008-08-04
Paul Heaton said
Sun Aug 3 6:55 PM, 2008
Common scoter still present tonight
50 + goosander
otherwise quite.
keep Birding
Robert Adderley said
Sat Aug 2 5:54 PM, 2008
2/8/08 early am
Common Scoter - 1 fem
Goldeneye - 1 Pochard - 1
Dunlin - 4 Ringed Plover - 3 Common Sandpiper - 1
John Rayner said
Fri Aug 1 9:48 AM, 2008
31/07/08
Did the late evening shift hoping for a Black Tern but it was pretty dead.
Flocks of Goosander (26) and Pochard (6), uncounted numbers of Tufted, GC Grebes and Gulls but little else.
Cheers, John
Robert Adderley said
Wed Jul 30 7:59 PM, 2008
30/7/08
1st summer Med Gull on no 1 Resv briefly this afternoon,otherwise fairly quiet.
Paul Heaton said
Tue Jul 29 10:35 PM, 2008
Many thanks Rob and Sonia for the call regarding the Sandwich tern , it makes it a very special year list bird for me, glad you were there to share the moment.
As for now taking up cloud spotting might do that next year ( sorry little joke you had to be there)
Anyway still a long way to go
keep birding
Robert Adderley said
Tue Jul 29 10:08 PM, 2008
29/7/08 evening
Sandwich Tern - juv bird on and off for c45 minutes appeared to fly off south over no2 at 8pm
Common Tern - 1 juv at 8.45pm on no 1
Nothing of note in the Gull roost this evening (not even many Lesser Black-backeds).
(Kittiwake seen this am - per John Ireland)
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Jul 29 11:49 AM, 2008
Single Common Scoter and 2 Turnstone this am.
Info thanks to Paul Heaton.
** Access strictly by permit only **
Paul Heaton said
Mon Jul 28 6:50 PM, 2008
A Greenshank was present this morning info via Roy Travis , but I was unable to relocate it, silly thing is had one on saturday morning but that was flushed off by dogs before i could completely get all features on it for the year list, begining to get fed up chasing the buggers around now, shadows of greenshanks and quails tails, funny lark this hobby of ours,
There was also an influx of similar species at another permit only site not too far away which included 18 GCG, 5 Goosander, Male Common Scoter, LRP, Common Sand and good numbers of Swallow, Swift, Sand & House Martins too!
Paul Heaton said
Fri Jul 11 5:15 PM, 2008
Things looking good today, 2 male common scoter 1 redshank 25 tufted 30 plus Great crested grebe 18 goosander 1 common tern Swifts, sand martins swallows and house martins.
then the rain came.
keep Birding.
Robert Adderley said
Sun Jul 6 7:58 PM, 2008
Sun - 6/7/08
3 Black-tailed Godwits through east this am - info per T O'Mahoney.
Robert Adderley said
Sun Jun 29 8:12 PM, 2008
Sun 29/6/08
Hobby this morning and the Goldeneye still present....info thanks to John Ireland.
Robert Adderley said
Sat Jun 28 3:53 PM, 2008
Sat - 28/6/08.
Very quiet
Goldeneye - 1 male Common sand - 1
Robert Adderley said
Mon Jun 23 8:07 PM, 2008
Mon 23/6/08
LITTLE TERN on no 2 Reservoir this am....info thanks to Roy Travis.
Paul Heaton said
Tue Jun 17 5:45 PM, 2008
6 Common scoter present today on number 1 res males x 3 goes to show its not a dark time after all, couple a points a piece i do believe
Keep birding
Judith Smith said
Sun Jun 15 9:40 AM, 2008
Actually we need a WeBS counter for Gorton Resrs now that Robin Crompton has moved away...
Paul Heaton said
Sat Jun 14 4:55 PM, 2008
Boats tents sunbathers and kids swimming, considering all the trouble and expense they went to to put a big fence up, it appears not to have worked.
1 lapwing several GC Grebes etc.
Other reservoirs of Manchester today quite as well, noted that you can still get good viewing of Gorton res via the pub car park there. water levels very low, we may have missed something here.
Keep birding.
Paul Heaton said
Sat Jun 7 10:29 AM, 2008
Hundreds of swifts and many more midges
2 ringed plover
and nothing else flat as a millpond.
keep birding
Steve Collins said
Sun Jun 1 5:49 PM, 2008
Sunday 1/6/08 2-3pm
3 common tern (1 of which was a first winter plumage bird) 1 sanderling 1 ringed plover 1 male pochard
Robert Adderley said
Wed May 28 9:08 PM, 2008
Wed 28/5/08 - early pm
BLACK TERN - 1 ARCTIC TERN - 3 (up to 15 counted this morning) Common Tern - 5 (up to 12 seen this morning) Sanderling - 1
Robert Adderley said
Tue May 27 9:11 PM, 2008
Tues - 27/5/08 evening
SANDERLING - 9 (first 6 arrived at 5.45pm then a further 3 singles) Dunlin - 2 Common sandpiper - 3 Ringed Plover - 3 Shoveler - 2 Goosander - 4
5 Turnstones in the Log for this morning not present this evening.
Robert Adderley said
Mon May 26 7:14 PM, 2008
Mon 26/5/08 am
1 ARCTIC TERN went through mid am Turnstone - still present on no 3 Resv. Ringed Plover - 2 Common Sandpiper - 1
Paul Hammond said
Sat May 24 3:50 PM, 2008
24-05-08 05.40-09.00
2 Ringed Plover Common Tern Common Sandpiper Turnstone Oystercatcher
Robert Adderley said
Thu May 22 9:36 PM, 2008
22/5/08...evening
Sanderling - 2 (diff to monday's birds) Dunlin - 4 Ringed Plover - 3 including a bird possibly of the Tundra race being smaller with darker upperparts than the other Ringed Plovers, it seemed to be associating more closely with the Dunlin/Sanderling "flock".
Sanderling - 2 Common Sandpiper - 3 Ringed Plover - 1 Common Gull - 12 1st summers Goosander - 6
Steve Suttill said
Mon May 19 11:54 AM, 2008
Drove past on the M60 Saturday lunchtime and I've never seen so many Swifts. Couldn't count whilst driving but there were certainly thousands rather than hundreds.
Steve
Robert Adderley said
Sat May 17 8:51 PM, 2008
17.5.08 pm
Obviously a day of Tern passage today with small numbers of Arctics and Commons going through during the afternoon. A maximum of 9 Arctics and 4 Commons recorded this afternoon at one time but undoubtably more went through as birds disappeared and were replaced by new birds a short time later.
Anway 2 turnstones still present
55 goosanders
36 tufted
1 pochard
300 gulls all sunning on the embankments Bh gulls LBB common gull etc,
4 common tern on No 2
3 swallows
5 wheater
A raptor came through fast at 15.30 sadly very fast did not get enough on it and by then I was too interested in the reported cowbird in cheshire
keep birding
06.35 - 09.20
Light Showers
North Westerly breeze
Canada Goose 50
Tufted Duck C95
Goosander 44
Great Crested Grebe 27
Coot 13
Swallow C20
Pied Wagtail C15
Goldeneye
Lapwing C150
Common Tern briefly
Sand Martin C20
Ruddy Duck
Pochard male
Cormorant
House Martin C10
Turnstone 2
Wheatear 2
Pochard - 1
Goldeneye - 1
Goosander - 39
Coot - 10
Common Sandpiper - 1
Wheatear - 5
MED GULL - 1 juvenile
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ad.
Herring Gull - 1
LBB Gull - c50
Pochard - 1
Goosander - c30
Common Sandpiper - 1
Wheatear - 2.
07.05 - 10.40
O/Cast before turning murky
Light southerly breeze
Grey Heron 2
Tufted Duck 90
Goosander 46
GC Grebe 30
Common Sandpiper 2
Coot 4
Shoveler 5
Pied Wagtail C20
Cormorant 3
Goldeneye 2
Male Pochard
Linnet C18
Wheatear
Lapwing 41
Oystercatcher - 1
Common Tern - 3
Cormorant - 4
Pochard - 1
Teal - 3
Goosander - 29
All a bit tame in comparison to some sites, well one in particular to the Northwest of Audenshaw!
-- Edited by Robert Adderley at 17:56, 2008-08-30
A Ruff this am (per John Ireland) but not present late afternoon.
Common Sand - 2
Ringed Plover - 2
Goldeneye - 2
Pochard - 1
Wheatear - 2
Goosander 24
Goldeneye 2
Common sandpiper 1
Pochard 1
Pied wags 16
no dog walkers not thats new for here
keep birding
Cormorant - 5
Teal - 2
Pochard - 1
Goldeneye - 2
Goosander - c20
Coot - 1
Common Sandpiper - 2
Wheatear - 2
Moderate south west to westerly breeze
Great Crested Grebe 26
Tufted Duck 96
Common Sandpiper 2
Pied Wagtail C30
Wheatear
Goosander 17
Sand Martin C50
Pochard 2 male
Linnet 18
Curlew 2 flew NW about 08.15
Cormorant
Kittiwake - 2 adults
Sanderling - 1
Dunlin - 2
Redshank - 1
Common Sandpiper - 1
Common Tern - 1
Pochard - 1
Swift - 6
Rae
Common Tern - 2
Dunlin - 3
Common Sand - 1
Ringed Plover - 1
Pochard - 1
Goosander - c30
07.40 - 10.10
South westerly breeze
Tufted Duck 104
GC Grebe 35
Cormorant 3
Dunlin 4
Ringed Plover 3
Goosander 10
Lapwing 9
Common Tern
Common Scoter - female still on no 1 Resv.
Yellow-legged Gull - ad with LBBG's until 8.50am then flew NE.
Pochard - 1
Goosander - 31
Lapwing - 106
Dunlin - 8
Ringed Plover - 2
Common Sandpiper - 1
Swift - c50.
06.15 to 08.35
Moderate West by south west breeze
Goosander 20
Oystercatcher
Great Crested Grebe at least 20
Tufted Duck at least 50
Common Sandpiper 2
Ringed Plover 2
Dunlin
Coot 2
Lapwing 9
Pochard male
Linnet 6
Cormorant
Black-necked Grebe - 1 juv.
Little Grebe - 1
Common Scoter - 1 female
Pochard - 1
Common Sandpiper - 2
Dunlin - 5
Ringed Plover - 2
Yellow-legged Gull - ad with LBB Gulls until 8.10am when it flew NE.
Swift - c50.
female Common Scoter still present on no 1 Resv.
28 Goosander
Otherwise quiet.
evening - no sign of the reported possible Red-necked Grebe.
ad Yellow-legged Gull in the roost
50 Goosander
1 Pochard
1 Common Sandpiper
-- Edited by Robert Adderley at 22:00, 2008-08-04
50 + goosander
otherwise quite.
keep Birding
Common Scoter - 1 fem
Goldeneye - 1
Pochard - 1
Dunlin - 4
Ringed Plover - 3
Common Sandpiper - 1
Did the late evening shift hoping for a Black Tern but it was pretty dead.
Flocks of Goosander (26) and Pochard (6), uncounted numbers of Tufted, GC Grebes and Gulls but little else.
Cheers, John
1st summer Med Gull on no 1 Resv briefly this afternoon,otherwise fairly quiet.
As for now taking up cloud spotting might do that next year ( sorry little joke you had to be there)
Anyway still a long way to go
keep birding
Sandwich Tern - juv bird on and off for c45 minutes appeared to fly off south over no2 at 8pm
Common Tern - 1 juv at 8.45pm on no 1
Nothing of note in the Gull roost this evening (not even many Lesser Black-backeds).
(Kittiwake seen this am - per John Ireland)
Info thanks to Paul Heaton.
** Access strictly by permit only **
thanks for the call Roy.
keep birding
1 CURLEW
2 COMMON SANDS
1 REDSHANK
20+ GOOSANDER
KEEP BIRDING
Yellow-legged Gull - ad with c20 LBBG's.
Common Tern - 3
Curlew - 1
LRP - 2
Ringed Plover - 6
Goldeneye - 1
Goosander - 20
20 tufted ducks
2 ringed plover
14 goosander.
keep birding
one sanderling 34 tufted duck 12 great crested grebe 8 goosanders.
loads of rain and wind.
keep birding
Common Sand - 4
Ringed Plover - 3
Dunlin - 1
Goosander - 24
Wheatear - 1 juv.
which included 18 GCG, 5 Goosander, Male Common Scoter, LRP, Common Sand and good numbers of Swallow, Swift, Sand & House Martins too!
2 male common scoter
1 redshank
25 tufted
30 plus Great crested grebe
18 goosander
1 common tern
Swifts, sand martins swallows and house martins.
then the rain came.
keep Birding.
3 Black-tailed Godwits through east this am - info per T O'Mahoney.
Hobby this morning and the Goldeneye still present....info thanks to John Ireland.
Very quiet
Goldeneye - 1 male
Common sand - 1
LITTLE TERN on no 2 Reservoir this am....info thanks to Roy Travis.
Keep birding
1 lapwing several GC Grebes etc.
Other reservoirs of Manchester today quite as well, noted that you can still get good viewing of Gorton res via the pub car park there. water levels very low, we may have missed something here.
Keep birding.
2 ringed plover
and nothing else flat as a millpond.
keep birding
3 common tern (1 of which was a first winter plumage bird)
1 sanderling
1 ringed plover
1 male pochard
BLACK TERN - 1
ARCTIC TERN - 3 (up to 15 counted this morning)
Common Tern - 5 (up to 12 seen this morning)
Sanderling - 1
SANDERLING - 9 (first 6 arrived at 5.45pm then a further 3 singles)
Dunlin - 2
Common sandpiper - 3
Ringed Plover - 3
Shoveler - 2
Goosander - 4
5 Turnstones in the Log for this morning not present this evening.
1 ARCTIC TERN went through mid am
Turnstone - still present on no 3 Resv.
Ringed Plover - 2
Common Sandpiper - 1
05.40-09.00
2 Ringed Plover
Common Tern
Common Sandpiper
Turnstone
Oystercatcher
Sanderling - 2 (diff to monday's birds)
Dunlin - 4
Ringed Plover - 3 including a bird possibly of the Tundra race being smaller with darker upperparts than the other Ringed Plovers, it seemed to be associating more closely with the Dunlin/Sanderling "flock".
Common Sandpiper - 3
Teal - 1
Reed Bunting - 1 male.
Sanderling - 2
Common Sandpiper - 3
Ringed Plover - 1
Common Gull - 12 1st summers
Goosander - 6
Steve
Obviously a day of Tern passage today with small numbers of Arctics and Commons going through during the afternoon. A maximum of 9 Arctics and 4 Commons recorded this afternoon at one time but undoubtably more went through as birds disappeared and were replaced by new birds a short time later.