Not quite in my garden but in my next door neighbours garden (Irlam) in a large conifer there is a Goldcrests nest. Although I can't see it there is lots of high pitched calling from the young and I've seen the adults flitting in and out.
This conifer attracts Goldcrests every winter so it's nice to see them using it in summer. Hopefully I'll get a glimpse of the young at some point and get an idea of how many there are.

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I can now add another fantastic new bird to my old Trafford garden list. I just came into the house from filling my feeders up & could hear gulls being very noisy as I looked out of my bedroom window there was 8 lesser black backed gulls going mad & 1 larger bird just slightly below them & it soon became clear it was only an OSPREY I could not believe it & by the time I got my camera out & ran down the stairs & out the back garden it was gone, gutted, this was at 1.35pm & it drifted of east towards moss side still pursued by the gulls.

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Well found Steve, you could have saved yourself that long walk to Norton Marsh last week.

I can now add another fantastic new bird to my old Trafford garden list. I just came into the house from filling my feeders up & could hear gulls being very noisy as I looked out of my bedroom window there was 8 lesser black backed gulls going mad & 1 larger bird just slightly below them & it soon became clear it was only an OSPREY I could not believe it & by the time I got my camera out & ran down the stairs & out the back garden it was gone, gutted, this was at 1.35pm & it drifted of east towards moss side still pursued by the gulls.

Second magical view of the day here in Lilford/Leigh - a full frontal view of a superb Tawny Owl sitting on a wall in the dusk light in our back garden, not 20ft from the kitchen window. Awesome!

new bird for my worsley garden today 4 very vocal common terns over

Lilford/Leigh - Magical view of a male Sparrowhawk breakfasting on a small bird on our front lawn this morning.

Hobby gave the local hirundine flock the jitters for a good 10 minutes this morning over my garden and astley street park.

Four Swifts currently hawking over our back gardens. Sometimes dropping down to near rooftop height.
Been here for the last 30 minutes.

2 swift buzzing around my bickershaw garden for a couple of hours this morning, house sparrow feeding young in nest box.

Originally posted today by David Wilson:

At half-past-four this afternoon, the starting-up of the lawnmower disturbed a male Crossbill which dropped down to the lawn from the climbers at the side of our house, spent only a couple of seconds on the floor, then took wing and flew across Pennington Brook to the large copse bordering the brook to the east of the bypass. There was no call and no clue as to what it might have been feeding on (if anything).

Whilst at work today in the rear garden of a house on Washway Road Sale we were going about our business when I returned to the garden to find feathers everywhere looking around in the boarder of the garden no more than 6ft away a male Sparrowhawk sat plucking a pigeon bold as brass watched it for half hour from feet away.

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker still spending a lot of time on the peanut feeders,getting fatter by the day!

Heyside, Royton.

In the last half hour

Pair of Jay taking fruit from the Cherry Tree in the back garden.

1 Mistle Thrush picking fallen Cherries from the lawn.

4 Juvenile Goldfinch on the Nijer feeder.

-- Edited by Dave Colton on Tuesday 8th of July 2014 06:31:13 PM

a male great spotted woodpecker was feeding in my old trafford garden this morning, first one I have actually seen feeding for many years now

Seen from the deckchair this evening:
A Sparrowhawk(m) alighted on a branch of the garden Silver Birch, 12 yards from me.
Then quickly moved on.
Prior to this, a charm of c20 Goldfinch, including many Juveniles, in nearby Lombardy Poplars.
A few of them came across into my trees.

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker still visiting the peanut feeders on a regular basis

Sunday 29th Dukinfield

35 Starling of which 25 were young birds in our garden this afternoon.
Not as many birds in general this year due to only feeding fats, nyger and fruit to try and eliminate a Feral Pigeon problem but still getting plenty of young Blue and Great Tits, the odd young Greenfinch a few more juv Goldfinch and 3 independent Dunnock with their parents. Juv Nuthatch and Great Spotted Woodpecker were seen a couple of times a few weeks ago and just spotted a juv Blackbird skulking in the shrubbery.
Always a joy to look out and see these young birds.

Bit of a rarity for my Stockport garden in the shape of a Willow Tit amongst young blue and coal tit's, it stayed for around 40 minutes to an hour helping itself to my sunflower hearts occasionally flitting away to come back in a few minutes.

A first for me in the garden and also a first for me in Stockport Borough.

3 Oystercatchers over my Wythenshawe garden ,garden 1st

Well with work work work taking its toll not had much chance to get out so had to settle for my Irlam garden with lots of Greenfinches Goldfinches Tits ect but where are the Starlings had a week where about 10 fledglings showed now nothing very worrying they are usually eating me out of house an home any body else seen any ?

Just finished watching the pulsating finale to the Test Match (only cricket matches wildlife watching) when a glance through the window towards a neighbours ornamental cherry tree had me a bit puzzled. All I'd seen was a pale coloured rump flying into the bush, and I could only think juvenile greenfinch as I'd seen no other colour. But it was better than that as a quick dash upstairs to the bins revealed three juvenile bullfinches. I had not even thought of them as they haven't been seen near to my garden for about 6 - 7 years.
The real mystery though was that there were no adults anywhere to be seen which is unusual. Hope they'll remember the place when winter comes.

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker regularly visiting my peanut feeders at present.

An Oystercatcher over this evening. Calling as it went on, to cross the Middlebrook Valley.

.....A big ''Facebook Like ''for the previous post to this!

Oh England, my England

Sunny June afternoon, deck chair in the garden, TE Lawrence biography, beer, Test Match Special on the radio - watching a diligent wren dodging under the radar of the patrolling magpies to feed her nestlings.

Football! What football?

A new bird to add to my old Trafford garden list this evening whilst I was watching the resident swifts whizzing around, the swifts suddenly dissapeared out of view & it became clear that a HOBBY was circling & drifting over heading south/westerly at around 8.45pm, the swifts were soon back whizzing around after a couple of minutes.

Got some much needed gardening work done today birds seen,
Chaffinch,robin,great tit,blue tit,dunnock,blackbird,house sparrow,starling,collared dove,wood pigeon,magpie,goldfinch,greenfinch,with kestrel, buzard,swallow, black headed and lesser black backed gull seen passing over.

Family groups of Blue Tits, Nuthatches and Bullfinches in the garden (Edgeley, Stockport) today.

SS

Interesting that you should mention the Jackdaw as 3 have been hanging around my garden feeders today-first ones I have seen in the garden this year

First juvenile finches of the year beginning to appear in our Stockport garden now, birds seen this morning ,06:00-06:30 ....
3 recently fledged Greenfinch, with approx. 7 adults.
2 juvenile Goldfinch plus 4 adults .
1 juvenile Chaffinch plus single male.
3 male Bullfinch ,
Great,Blue and Coal Tits , all still feeding well developed young!
Jay plus a garden tick in the form of a lone Jackdaw , that had a quick peck of the fatballs before flying off.
Cheers Chris .

2 summer plumaged adult Mediterranean Gulls drifting over tyldesley garden at 3.30pm today circled from east with black headed gulls then and calling regularly, then drifted off with other gulls northwest.

A newly fledged party of Willow Tits on the feeders this afternoon,must have bred close by

A male Bullfinch made a brief visit to the sunflower hearts feeder in my Prestwich garden this morning.I haven't seen one visiting the feeders for some time.

A Raven flew past my bedroom window at 7.30am. I had only been out of bed for about 5 minutes, and hadn't even got down the stairs before seeing this cracking bird right outside my house at roof height. I then watched it being mobbed as it flew across Bromley Cross, croaking as it went.
As I was having a day in I thought I had better record everything else that visited my garden or passed over throughout the day.

Garden :-
2 Woodpigeons, 2 Collared Doves, 3 Dunnocks, 2m Blackbirds, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Magpie, 3 Jackdaws, 1 Carrion Crow, 8 Starlings, 1 Greenfinch, 1 Goldfinch.

Passing over :-
As usual lots of Black-headed Gulls (kept checking for Mediterranean Gulls amongst them but no luck)
3 Cormorants flying over together
1 Grey Heron
3 Mallards seen numerous times
Swifts. A flock of 10 & later on a single bird
2 Swallows

Mad half hour today 13:30 - 14:00 in the pouring rain.
5 greenfinch 3m 2f
3 goldfinch
2 dunnock
6 House Sparrows
2 Woodpigeon
1 Blackbird F (feeding to1 fledgling)
1 Starling (feeding 2 fledglings)
2 Blue tits (1 looking like it had been in a washing machine poor thing)
2 Great Tits
1 Coal Tit

A peregrine was over my house in liverpool today. The bird was flying quite low at first, but slowly gained height as it drifted of north, spooking a lot of pigeons as it went. A garden tick for me!

Also 2 greenfinch

2 Common Terns flew over my Irlam back garden at 6.50pm this evening heading east. They were quite high up and calling noisily.

Woke up this morning to see my blue tit nest box predated by something.The hole was blocked by the nest,it looked like something had tried to drag out the nest,11 cold eggs in the bottom of the box.:(

Nice sight of a Grey Heron over the back of our Highfield garden first thing this morning.

3 well grown juvenile Blackbird feeding in garden this morning which was nice as the garden is
only small and most birds are fly overs, also an adult Great Tit taking Azalea seed, could be nesting close by.

Super juv great tit in my garden today. This year's bird. Super

I had a male and female bullfinch on my feeder about 7:30pm yesterday. Hopefully they will become regulars.

Cuckoo calling @10.00 nearby today, my wife also heard one earlier in the week, Our home lies roughly half way between Pennington Flash and Bickershaw Rucks. Have seen Cuckoo over Nissan Firsway showroom on Plank Lane,but I have never heard one from the house before.
Swift have been back on territory since beginning of the week.

-- Edited by Gordon Newman on Saturday 10th of May 2014 10:34:42 AM

3 house martin buzzing around back gardens on Bickershaw lane.

20+ Swifts buzzing around late yesterday afternoon

Currently 2 WoodDucks sat on our roof in on The Grove in Urmston, amazing sight..

Got home from work last night to find a dead Woodpigeon on the lawn near the front door. It looked relatively unharmed but when I turned it over there were talon marks on its back. It was only when I went upstairs that I saw blood spattered all over the bedroom window and signs of bird impact. It appears that the pigeon must have been taken by a raptor (presumably a female Sparrowhawk) and that they both hit the window.

2 common tern flew south over my tyldesley garden Monday 5th early morning.

4 swifts over my old Trafford garden this aft/eve, the latest they have ever been back. average dates back are normally 21st-24th april

17.00 ish
26 Starlings in my Swinton back garden.
Cheers Jay
Don't twitch and drive

still getting 2 Willow Tits visiting the feeders