Little Woolden Moss today:
1 Cuckoo still
1 drumming Snipe
6 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
7 Yellow Wagtail
Chat Moss:
1 Garden Warbler
1 Hobby
93 Swift
1 Lesser redpoll
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart
Sightings for yesterday include:
Chat and Barton Mosses:
3 Oystercatcher
106 Lapwing
2 Yellow Wagtail
2 Stock Dove
2 Sand Martin
Info thanks to Dave Steel
5 Oystercatcher
1 Cuckoo
2 Redshank
Rixton Moss:
37 Skylark
14 Swallow
10 Yellow Wagtail
45 Lapwing
14 Yellowhammer
2 Reed Warbler
2 Little Grebe
A family party of Shelduck
1 Ringed Plover
1 Redshank
4 Curlew
2 male Yellow Wagtail
Cuckoo
On Chat Moss:
4 Oystercatcher
1 Willow Tit
Little Woolden Moss:
1 Snipe
2 Ringed Plover
15 Mistle Thrush
1 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
2 Kestrel
12 Yellow Wagtail
17 Pied Wagtail
6 Tree Sparrow
2 Snipe in display am
Croxden:
Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel
20 Pied Wagtail
3 Redshank
2 Curlews
Drumming Snipe
11 Swift
7 Singing Willow Warbler
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart; phonescoped Snipe by me!
Little Woolden Moss
Cuckoo calling from the trees opposite the former bird hide flew off towards Olive Mount Farm still calling.
Barton Moss
Another confirmed Yellow Wagtail breeding site today, single pair feeding young at a traditional location.
This is in addition to the three breeding pairs located yesterday with Dave Stewart on Barton Moss.
Cheers
Ian
Barton Moss today:
Yellow Wagtails feeding young
8 Skylarks
2 Grey Partridge
1 Yellow Wagtail
1 Oystercatcher
1 Drake Wigeon
1 Drake Shoveler
Other sightings from Little Woolden Moss today included:
1 Grey Plover still present
3 Curlew
17 Yellow Wagtail
19 Pied Wagtail
3 singing Corn Bunting
10 Tree Sparrow
Little Woolden Moss 18:30-19:45Yellow Wagtail x6Pied Wagtail x12Willow Warbler x7Whitethroat x2Reed Bunting x6Lapwing x11 +4 chicksCurlew x1Redshank x5Oystercatcher x2Grey Plover x2Meadow Pipit x2Linnet x5Chaffinch x1Black Headed Gull x6Lesser Black-Backed Gull x2Swift +201 x Deceased Canada Goose also sadly.
Rindle road area
12.00-1500 ish
Loads of Common whitethroat
Wren with food
Buzzards X2 being mobbed by a Lapwing
Sparrowhawk hunting the woods
Oystercatcher
Bit of a palaver at the top end of Rindle wood, where a Jay had a Blue tit chick, not a pleasant sight.
Willow warbler and Sedge warbler, heard not seen
Mistle thrush
Several Kestrel
Cheers Jay
Dont twitch and drive
Little Woolden Moss today;
Breeding plumaged Grey Plover
4 Redshank
5 Curlew
12 Yellow Wagtail i
55 Lapwing
1 Hobby (Image on website)
4 Redshank.
4 Gadwall
3 Tufted Duck
1 displaying Snipe
Croxdens:
1st Summer Hobby
Cadishead Moss:
36 Lapwing
Barton Moss this morning:
4 Yellow Wagtail
1 Sedge Warbler
34 Linnet
1 Grey Partridge
Late news for Little Woolden Moss yesterday:
1st summer Hobby
14 Gadwall
4 Curlews
1 Snipe (displaying)
2 singing Corn Bunting
4 yellow Wagtail
Little Woolden Moss this morning:
1 Wood Sandpiper
3 Ringed Plover
3 Yellow Wagtail
Info thanks to Dave steel
Little Woolden Moss this afternoon:
13 Ringed Plover
2 Dunlin
6 Yellow Wagtail
1 Snipe drumming continuously over Cadishead Moss for 15 minutes!
1 Greylag Goose
120 Starling in one flock including many juveniles on field 62
28 Stock Dove on field 52
Croxdens this morning:
3 Shelduck
3 Greylag Geese
6 Ringed Plover
2 White Wagtail
4 Dunlin
2 Gadwall
1 Shoveler
Very early this morning on Little Woolden Moss today:
5 Yellow Wagtail
10 Ringed Plover
9 Oystercatcher
15 Stock Dove
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
Today's highlights from Little Woolden Moss:
7 Ringed Plover
2 Oystercatchers
3 Dunlin
Late news for yesterday on Little Woolden Moss:
A short visit to Little Woolden Moss in the rain today produced:
Croxdens today:
1 Teal
1 Yellowhammer
Apart from the usual
field 68
oystercatcher
lapwingsx4
field 69
Canada geesex2 with a single chick just mooching up and down in the sun.
In the field behind Rindle wood
A kestrel dive bombed a juv lapwing with no luck, soon to be chased of by an adult lapwing.
Pied wagtail
SSSI
Kestrel
Buzzardx2
Swallow
Some sightings from yesterday on Little Woolden Moss included:
2 Shoveler
12 Oystercatchers
2 Hobby
Sightings from today on Little Woolden Moss:
5 Ringed Plover
5 Dunlin
1 Gadwall
4 Ringed Plover
1 Wheatear
Llittle Woolden Moss today:
4 Oystercatchers
1 Dunlin
1 Whimbrel
2 Wheatear
Further sightings from Little Woolden Moss today:
2 Tree Sparrows
Little Woolden Moss this evening:
12 Grey Heron
Chat Moss this morning:
2 Greylag Geese
1 Peregrine
Little Woolden Moss today:
1 Cuckoo still
1 drumming Snipe
6 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
7 Yellow Wagtail
Chat Moss:
6 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
1 Garden Warbler
1 Hobby
93 Swift
1 Lesser redpoll
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart
Sightings for yesterday include:
Chat and Barton Mosses:
1 Garden Warbler
2 Curlew
3 Oystercatcher
106 Lapwing
2 Yellow Wagtail
2 Stock Dove
93 Swift
2 Sand Martin
Info thanks to Dave Steel
Little Woolden Moss today:
5 Oystercatcher
1 Cuckoo
2 Curlew
1 drumming Snipe
2 Redshank
7 Yellow Wagtail
Rixton Moss:
37 Skylark
14 Swallow
10 Yellow Wagtail
45 Lapwing
14 Yellowhammer
2 Reed Warbler
2 Little Grebe
A family party of Shelduck
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart
Little Woolden Moss today:
1 Ringed Plover
1 Redshank
3 Oystercatcher
4 Curlew
2 male Yellow Wagtail
Cuckoo
On Chat Moss:
4 Oystercatcher
4 Curlew
2 Yellow Wagtail
1 Willow Tit
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart
Little Woolden Moss:
1 Cuckoo
1 Snipe
5 Oystercatcher
2 Ringed Plover
7 Yellow Wagtail
2 Curlew
15 Mistle Thrush
1 Curlew
Info thanks to Dave Steel
Highlight a red kite over field 51; it found a thermal and I watched as it rose until a tiny speck up high. Cracking.
Irlam Moss:
1 goldcrest heard singing
1 chiffchaff heard singing
3 willow warbler
7 blackcap
19 whitethroat, with several fledglings
Goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinch
5 yellowhammer
15+ swallow
10+ house martin (including one gathering mud; nice to see on the ground)
5 pied wagtail
3 yellow wagtail
10+ skylark
6 song thrush
1 mistle thrush
40+ lapwing (including a chick)
2 or 3 oystercatcher
1 kestrel
1 sparrowhawk
3 buzzard
Little Woolden Moss:
11+ willow warbler
5+ whitethroat (including a couple of fledglings)
1 sedge warbler heard singing
6+ linnet
5+ reed bunting
5+ meadow pipit
8+ yellow wagtail
8+ pied wagtail
3+ mistle thrush
1 ringed plover
c15 lapwing (including a chick)
3 oystercatcher
4 curlew
Buzzard heard a couple of times.
As I was leaving, a curlew flew over the tree-line and landed on the path, right in front of the gate, about 20 yards from me. Nice end to the day.
-- Edited by Shannon Llewellyn on Sunday 10th of June 2018 10:56:55 PM
Little Woolden Moss today:
1 Cuckoo
4 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
2 Redshank
2 Kestrel
12 Yellow Wagtail
17 Pied Wagtail
6 Tree Sparrow
2 Snipe in display am
Croxden:
1 Willow Tit
3 Oystercatcher
Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel
Little Woolden Moss today:
12 Yellow Wagtail
20 Pied Wagtail
1 Cuckoo
3 Redshank
3 Oystercatcher
2 Curlews
Drumming Snipe
11 Swift
7 Singing Willow Warbler
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart; phonescoped Snipe by me!
Little Woolden Moss
Cuckoo calling from the trees opposite the former bird hide flew off towards Olive Mount Farm still calling.
Barton Moss
Another confirmed Yellow Wagtail breeding site today, single pair feeding young at a traditional location.
This is in addition to the three breeding pairs located yesterday with Dave Stewart on Barton Moss.
Cheers
Ian
Barton Moss today:
Yellow Wagtails feeding young
8 Skylarks
2 Grey Partridge
Croxden:
1 Yellow Wagtail
1 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
1 Drake Wigeon
1 Drake Shoveler
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart
Other sightings from Little Woolden Moss today included:
1 Grey Plover still present
3 Curlew
3 Oystercatcher
17 Yellow Wagtail
19 Pied Wagtail
3 singing Corn Bunting
10 Tree Sparrow
1 Hobby
Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel
Little Woolden Moss 18:30-19:45
Yellow Wagtail x6
Pied Wagtail x12
Willow Warbler x7
Whitethroat x2
Reed Bunting x6
Lapwing x11 +4 chicks
Curlew x1
Redshank x5
Oystercatcher x2
Grey Plover x2
Meadow Pipit x2
Linnet x5
Chaffinch x1
Black Headed Gull x6
Lesser Black-Backed Gull x2
Swift +20
1 x Deceased Canada Goose also sadly.
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 6th of June 2018 10:23:49 PM
Rindle road area
12.00-1500 ish
Loads of Common whitethroat
Wren with food
Buzzards X2 being mobbed by a Lapwing
Sparrowhawk hunting the woods
Oystercatcher
Bit of a palaver at the top end of Rindle wood, where a Jay had a Blue tit chick, not a pleasant sight.
Willow warbler and Sedge warbler, heard not seen
Mistle thrush
Several Kestrel
Cheers Jay
Dont twitch and drive
-- Edited by Jason Dulhanty on Wednesday 6th of June 2018 04:57:26 PM
Little Woolden Moss today;
Breeding plumaged Grey Plover
1 Cuckoo
4 Redshank
5 Curlew
3 Oystercatcher
12 Yellow Wagtail i
Chat Moss:
2 Curlew
3 Oystercatcher
55 Lapwing
Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel
Little Woolden Moss today:
1 Hobby (Image on website)
7 Yellow Wagtail
1 Snipe
4 Redshank.
2 Oystercatcher
Info thanks to Dave Steel
Little Woolden Moss today:
5 Oystercatcher
2 Redshank
4 Gadwall
3 Tufted Duck
1 displaying Snipe
Croxdens:
1st Summer Hobby
4 Oystercatcher
Cadishead Moss:
2 Yellow Wagtail
36 Lapwing
Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel
Barton Moss this morning:
4 Yellow Wagtail
1 Sedge Warbler
34 Linnet
1 Grey Partridge
1 Hobby
Info thanks to Dave Steel
Late news for Little Woolden Moss yesterday:
1st summer Hobby
14 Gadwall
6 Oystercatcher
4 Redshank
4 Curlews
1 Snipe (displaying)
2 singing Corn Bunting
4 yellow Wagtail
Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel
Little Woolden Moss this morning:
1 Wood Sandpiper
1 Cuckoo
4 Redshank
4 Curlew
3 Ringed Plover
3 Yellow Wagtail
Info thanks to Dave steel
Little Woolden Moss this afternoon:
13 Ringed Plover
2 Dunlin
6 Yellow Wagtail
1 Cuckoo
1 Snipe drumming continuously over Cadishead Moss for 15 minutes!
Croxdens:
1 Wood Sandpiper
1 Greylag Goose
2 Yellow Wagtail
Chat Moss:
120 Starling in one flock including many juveniles on field 62
28 Stock Dove on field 52
Croxdens this morning:
1 Wood Sandpiper
3 Oystercatcher
3 Shelduck
3 Greylag Geese
2 Curlew
Little Woolden Moss today:
6 Ringed Plover
5 Oystercatcher
6 Yellow Wagtail
2 White Wagtail
4 Curlew
2 Redshank
4 Dunlin
2 Gadwall
1 Shoveler
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart
Very early this morning on Little Woolden Moss today:
5 Yellow Wagtail
10 Ringed Plover
3 Curlew
3 Redshank
9 Oystercatcher
1 Sedge Warbler
15 Stock Dove
1 Snipe
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
8+ willow warbler
1 blackcap
4 whitethroat
Party of very newly fledged long-tailed tit
2+ linnet
2 reed bunting
1 yellowhammer heard calling
1 house martin
8+ meadow pipit
9+ yellow wagtail
4+ pied wagtail
2 skylark
1 mistle thrush singing
5 swift
4 teal
2 or 3 gadwall
3 ringed plover
c25 lapwing
3 dunlin
1 snipe
2 redshank
2 oystercatcher
2 curlew
1 hobby (yay)
1 kestrel
3+ buzzard (2+ distant)
A singing blackcap, a pair of bullfinch, a couple of yellowhammer and a kestrel noted along Astley Road.
Today's highlights from Little Woolden Moss:
7 Ringed Plover
2 Redshank
2 Oystercatchers
3 Dunlin
7 Yellow Wagtail
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
Late news for yesterday on Little Woolden Moss:
1 Curlew
1 Redshank
6 Ringed Plover
1 Oystercatcher
1 Snipe
4 Yellow Wagtail
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
A short visit to Little Woolden Moss in the rain today produced:
3 Ringed Plover
4 Oystercatcher
1 Redshank
2 Yellow Wagtail
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
Little Woolden Moss today:
3 Ringed Plover
2 Curlew
3 Yellow Wagtail
4 Oystercatcher
Info thanks to Dave Steel
Croxdens today:
6 Oystercatcher
1 Sedge Warbler
1 Teal
1 Yellowhammer
1 Hobby
Info thanks to Dave Steel
Rindle road area
Apart from the usual
field 68
oystercatcher
lapwingsx4
field 69
Canada geesex2 with a single chick just mooching up and down in the sun.
In the field behind Rindle wood
A kestrel dive bombed a juv lapwing with no luck, soon to be chased of by an adult lapwing.
Pied wagtail
SSSI
Kestrel
Buzzardx2
Swallow
Cheers Jay
Dont twitch and drive
Some sightings from yesterday on Little Woolden Moss included:
2 Yellow Wagtail
4 Curlew
4 Oystercatcher
1 Ringed Plover
2 Shoveler
1 Hobby
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
Little Woolden Moss today:
1 Yellow Wagtail
1 Redshank
12 Oystercatchers
2 Shoveler
Cuckoo
Info thanks to Dave Steel
Little Woolden Moss today:
2 Hobby
1 Yellow Wagtail
4 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
No sign of the Wood Sandpiper
1 Dunlin
4 Ringed Plover
3 Oystercatcher
1 Redshank
1 Curlew
1 Shoveler (m)
5 Teal (3m, 2f)
2 Gadwall - pair
2 Yellow Wagtail
3 Reed Bunting
1 Willow Warbler
Sightings from today on Little Woolden Moss:
1 Wood Sandpiper
5 Ringed Plover
5 Dunlin
1 Gadwall
2 Shoveler
2 Curlew
2 Yellow Wagtail
2 Grey Partridge
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
Little Woolden Moss today:
2 Hobby
4 Ringed Plover
3 Dunlin
4 Oystercatcher
2 Redshank
1 Shoveler
2 Curlew
2 Yellow Wagtail
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
Little Woolden Moss today:
2 Grey Partridge
1 Cuckoo
1 Wheatear
2 Yellow Wagtail
3 Oystercatcher
3 Curlew
2 Redshank
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
Yellow Wagtail (2)
Wheatear (male)
Lapwing (at least 10)
Gadwall (2; 1male and 1 female)
Mallard (4)
Grey Heron (2 over)
Oystercatcher (2)
Kestrel (2)
Linnet (2)
Black-headed Gull (5)
Curlew (6)
Whitethroat (at least 5)
Hobby (seen twice - one bird or two?)
Redshank (2)
Shoveler (2; 1 male and 1 female)
Moorhen
Willow Warbler (lots)
Robin
Blackbird
Magpie
Wood Pigeon
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Wren
Carrion Crow
Llittle Woolden Moss today:
2 Yellow Wagtail
1 Wheatear
2 Hobby
3 Curlew
4 Oystercatchers
1 Dunlin
On Chat Moss:
2 Curlew
1 Sedge Warbler
3 Oystercatcher
1 Whimbrel
2 Wheatear
1 Yellow Wagtail
Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart
Along Moss Lane GM side of Glaze Brook : 2 Blackcaps, 1 Kestrel and 1 Grey Heron.
Little Woolden Moss NR and adjoining fields :
1 Cuckoo, 2 Hobbies, 1f Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtails, 4 Swifts, 1 Buzzard, 1 Curlew, 8 Meadow Pipits, 1 Dunlin,
3 Reed Buntings, 3 Skylarks, 3 Yellowhammers, 2 Common Whitethroats, 1m Shoveler and 2 Teal.
Croxdens today:
2 Oystercatchers
2 Curlew
1st summer Hobby
2 Wheatear
Chat Moss:
1 Wheatear
3 Oystercatcher
1 Sedge Warbler
Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel
Further sightings from Little Woolden Moss today:
7 Yellow Wagtail
2 Shoveler
2 Tree Sparrows
Info thanks to Dave Stewart
Little Woolden Moss this evening:
1 Whimbrel
3 Yellow Wagtail
12 Grey Heron
1 Redshank
Along the nearby Glaze Brook : 2 Redshanks and 11 Grey Herons (A group of 9 were grouped together on the river bank by Holcroft Hall Farm.
Little Woolden Moss NR : 3 Qystercatchers, 3 Curlews, 3 Meadow Pipits, 1 Common Whitethroat and 3 Buzzards.
An amazing 8 Yellow Wagtails were on the reserve and adjoining recently ploughed fields.
Chat Moss this morning:
1 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
2 Greylag Geese
1 Sedge Warbler
Little Woolden Moss:
1 Peregrine
1 Curlew
1 Wheatear
2 Hobby
Info thanks to Dave Steel
Little Woolden NR:
1 Grasshopper Warbler heard reeling
1 Cuckoo calling by entrance gate
1 Snipe
4 Oystercatcher
3 Curlew
6 Tufted Duck
2 Teal
2 Gadwall
3 Sand Martin
1 Swift
1 Swallow
2 Blackcap
2 Reed Bunting
2 Grey Partridge heard
3 Willow Warbler
Irlam Moss:
1 Tawny Owl