All the young Ravens had left the nest this morning - one present on an adjacent roof

10.00ish,both adult ravens present only three chicks on view,I fear one may have perished,they are now fully feathered and ready to fly,the adults were indulging in mutual preening on their usual perch.

cheers geoff

Fri 20th Apr: 18 Meadow Pipit north over DW Stadium in just over an hour
Raven over Saddle Junction

Wed 18th: deep in to the town centre, a noisy flock of 10 House Sparrow in the Parish Church gardens were a welcome sight, also Great Tit there

Great Tit and Wren singing on the former town hall site today

Sat/Sun quick visit,s at lunchtime, both adult ravens present and the chicks sleeping

cheers geoff

-- Edited by Geoff Hargreaves on Sunday 15th of April 2012 10:21:08 PM

The next generation of ravens are looking good for fledging soon
brilliant to watch them this afternoon under the watchful eyes of mum and dad

A Chiffchaff was in song at Wigan Wallgate Station this morning.

Lunchtime visit

both adult ravens present and the chicks appear fine if somewhat sleepy

cheers geoff

3 Mandarin on the River Douglas today at Scholes (2 drake, 1 fem)
Grey Heron hunting in the Duggy at an inlet below Greatacre
Coal Tit and 1 Chiffchaff between Tesco & Coppull Lane
Grey Wagtail

midday visit,
both adult ravens present and a beak count reveals 4 ravenetts in the nesta food item was brought in just as I arrived and may have been a chip or more likely a pie crust,both adults then engaged in a duel with 2 common buzzards quite amazing over the town center.
2 canada geese
3 pied wagtail
4 crows
2 magpies

cheers geoff

early p.m. today a Buzzard, gliding low over Millgate-Library Street, then off over the gas works, sheer poetry

A quick visit at lunchtime
20 jackdaw over
2 adult raven on the usual mast
3 (might be one more) well grown raven chicks in the nest

cheers geoff

Chris Dunn wrote:

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Dave that's narrowed it down then, there can't be that many pie n gravy establishments that have an ambience...

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Ooosh!! That's gotta hurt. Hasn't he heard of Greggs?

Dave that's narrowed it down then, there can't be that many pie n gravy establishments that have an ambience...

4 jackdaws and 3 magpies winding up a raven in the tall trees outside the john bull tea time. the raven was furious. awesome to watch

Mallard brood on the Douglas reduced to four birds yesterday
Pair of Long-Tailed Tit flying perilously low over the wide road junction by the Oak Hotel

Ashamed to have been rumbled having a non-pie lunch My trip in to Cheshire has gone to my head
Having let my fellow townfolk down, I'll make amends by going for the £1.50 Pie and gravy special every day next week , but sorry Chris, I can't reveal the location, as the stampede of forum-users would spoil the ambience

-- Edited by dave broome on Saturday 17th of March 2012 09:38:52 AM

Dave's not your typical Wiganer. He's even been known to make trips to Macclesfield. Scandalous behaviour for a Wiganer!!

Single Raven over town centre 1 pm today. Nice to meet Dave Broome again , keeping a close eye on proceedings,whilst consuming his lunch. Controversially not a pie though. Scandalous behaviour.!

What I want to know Dave is where do you get Pie n Gravy for 1.50?

Buzzard soaring over the town centre early afternoon, tracked by a Raven at a lower level; along the River Douglas by Riverway a female Mallard with 6 recently-hatched juvs, 3 Grey Wagtail, 2 Long-Tailed Tit

cycling back from wigan town centre late tea time(18.30ish)
as i joined the canal path just before poolstock lock i noticed a female sparrowhawk very low over the canal yards away obviously after something, the aerobatics(is that the word)were stunning. so i pulled up to see what was going on. the hawk perched briefly in a small tree on the opposite side of the canal. then i spotted a bat close by. the hawk spotted me and flew off. this was all in the space of no longer than 10-15 seconds. do sparrowhawks go for bats ? i've never seen that behaviour before

pair of grey wagtails back on territory at poolstock today about 4ish

Raven on nest at 12.30 todayat the usual site. It appeared to be brooding eggs from its behaviour.

Mike Unsworth

watched the raven activity from 17.15-17.45
twice the male(i'm presuming) brought food back to the sitting female fed her and flew off again.
also 5 jackdaws and plenty of pre roost pied wagtails

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 10:46:44 PM

Both Ravens at nest site today at 1pm.

kestrel (f) perched on a street light at the top of westwood way (17.45) it flew off and circled bithells scrapyard twice then headed towards lower ince.

Both Ravens present at the nest site this morning 10:00am

Chris.

raven on top of the civic centre aerial 17.30 preening for a good 5 minutes before flying off over the grand arcade

Raven causing havoc to a passing flock of dozen jackdaws over John Bull this lunchtime. Needless to say they didnt hang around.!!

bithells- scaregull back up again. so too were a few black headeds who i think have seen through the scam heh heh
also raven seeing off pestering magpie (over the wiend)

-- Edited by paul burke on Thursday 23rd of February 2012 01:57:17 AM

the bithells scaregull kite is down and the gulls are back

17.20 millgate one of the ravens flew from the nest site and over the civic centre along with 50+ pied wagtails on their way to the usual roosting site

two oystercatchers on the soccer pitches behind the dw stadium

opposite the old beer engine (chinese now) poolstock, very low and fast sparrowhawk (m). 2 mins later, bithells waste depot- some sort of kitey scaregull thingy. obviously worked not a single gull. killjoys eh

Pair of Ravens showing well at 1pm today. Female on the nest briefly before joining the male giving great views of them preening atop wigans skyline.

A couple of Goosander flew off the canal by the DW tonight as we were arriving for the Wariors v Rhinos game. Must have been a good omen....

Raven sitting on nest at dinner time, other bird perched nearby

Raven mobbing a Buzzard early p.m. today

Hi Paul
It must have been one of them i saw as i was stopped in traffic at Millgate as it flew over Scholes it then disappeared from view over Grand Arcade.

Beltin Jimmy

Whilst not having seen them for some time and wondering if something had happened to them, it was nice to see two Ravens flying over and carrying a twig back towards the usual nest site this evening on way home from work

Wallgate nr Seven Stars

Sparrowhawk f moidering Feral Pigeons this morning.

Also at Skew Bridge Newtown Sparrowhawk m causing mass panic with a tit flock on railway embankment

Cheers Jimmy

-- Edited by Jimmy Meadows on Friday 20th of January 2012 08:50:49 PM

80+ Greenfinches going to roost, new roost site is in the bushes at the back of the recycling point at tesco wigan. old roost trees at side of Oak hotel having been cut down. also 25 pied Wagtails pre roost gathering

Wigan Town Centre
Raven on Queens Hall this afternoon (bet it was warmer than i was)

Cheers Jimmy

small number of pied wagtails going to roost on Robin Park, tree near Bensons Beds and holiday supermarket

21/11/11

A Mute Swan was causing a bit of traffic congestion this lunchtime as it waddled down the middle of Wigan Lane just north of the Cherry Tree roundabout. People had stopped and were on their phones as I drove past going to work, so I presume it was led to safety. It was probably one of the Whitley Reservoir birds...

Geoff Hargreaves wrote:

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".... Bithells 'junkyard' a gullers paradise,bh,common,lbb,herring all in a few minutes.

cheers geoff

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approx 300 Black-Headed Gulls on and around Bithell's waste disposal yard at Chapel Lane this afternoon, with 15 Herring Gulls and several Lesser Black-Backed sat on roofs, worth checking for Darvic ringed birds but none today

Peregrine on town centre building again this morning.

Peregrine perched on building in town centre this morning then got flushed by 2 Ravens

Could this be the one from Challenge Way

Also 2 flocks of Redwing over 1 flock south approx 100 at 07:40 and 1 at 09:00 approx 150 South again.
With the Flock of Pink Feet seen (posted elsewhere) not to bad for a town centre mornings sightings really brightened the day up i can tell you.

Cheers Jimmy

-- Edited by Jimmy Meadows on Wednesday 2nd of November 2011 08:21:23 PM

23 Carrion Crow displaying in tall Ash tree by the John Bull pub this morning

Quick visit this a.m.
2 raven on mesnes high rise flats
4 pied wagtails across the rooftops
38 jackdaw in one flock over
6 jackdaw in market place/church
quite a few fat feral pigeons
longtailed,blue and great tit near Halfords
and I wasn,t fooled for a second by the bird scarer on the new life centre building

cheers geoff

Raven sat 'cronking' loudly on a town centre rooftop late afternoon today

You'd never see Raven and scrotes in the same field of view in a Welsh valley

-- Edited by dave broome on Thursday 29th of September 2011 08:25:04 PM