Wheatear immature male - certainly different bird to yesterday Kingfisher Lapwing 20 Starlings 3 Cormorants Dunnock 2 Chiffchaff 2 Robins
Very quiet though overall and difficult to get good views of birds
Martin Loftus said
Sat Sep 10 12:43 PM, 2016
12,40pm : Single Ring-necked parakeet flying around Exchange Quay ... Can't tell wether it's a wild one or an escaped captive, as its flying into all the windows trying to perch.
Zoe Barrett said
Fri Sep 9 1:28 PM, 2016
1 hour round Pomona mid afternoon today:
Wheatear female on south Marsh area Meadow pipits heard over 5 Mistle thrush Great spotted Woodpecker on trees by canal a first for me here Chiffchaff Lapwing Plus usual waterbirds (Mute Swan, Mallard, Cormorant, Black headed gull, lesser black-backed gulls)
-- Edited by Zoe Barrett on Friday 9th of September 2016 03:07:20 PM
Shannon Llewellyn said
Sun Sep 4 4:59 PM, 2016
A few hours round here today.
Pomona:
3 chiffchaff 1 or 2 whitethroat 4 sand martin 1 house martin 1 kingfisher 1 moorhen 11 mute swan (two with blue darvics 4ADI & 4BXH) 1 lapwing 1 grey heron c10 cormorant 60+ black-headed gull 9 lesser black-backed gull 1 kestrel (multiple views, but always of a female) 1 sparrowhawk
From Trafford Road Bridge to Media City:
1 grey wagtail 7 mute swan (including three full grown juveniles) 2 grey heron 16 cormorant c300 black-headed gull 40+ lesser black-backed gull c10 herring gull 4 common gull 1 peregrine (fabulous views of it circling low overhead)
steven burke said
Sat Aug 20 11:55 PM, 2016
2 great crested grebes on Trafford wharf this afternoon.
James Walsh said
Thu Aug 4 9:29 PM, 2016
Pomona
1 Lapwing
Martin Loftus said
Tue Aug 2 6:53 PM, 2016
There was a semi leucistic Crow in Furness Quays car park today at approximately 12 noon, that just had two white wings, it looked quite extraordinary. As I was in work I didn't have my camera handy
James Walsh said
Tue Jul 26 3:59 PM, 2016
The summering drake Northern Pochard still present on Pomona Docks
dave broome said
Sat Jul 23 10:42 AM, 2016
at Pomona this morning - drake Pochard, 20 Sand Martin, 1 House Martin, 2 Swift, 4 Whitethroat inc 2 singing, Willow Warbler feeding young, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Song Thrush, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, 8 juv House Sparrow
1 Common Sandpiper flew from side of Sam Platts in to South Bay
-- Edited by dave broome on Saturday 23rd of July 2016 10:43:58 AM
Zoe Barrett said
Fri Jul 22 11:18 PM, 2016
This evening at Pomona: Pochard drake Lapwing Kingfisher 15 Sand Martins Goldfinch Blue tit Greenfinch Blackcap Whitethroat singing 3 Cormorant 2 Grey herons 5 Mallard c.30 Black-headed Gull 30+ House sparrow
Zoe Barrett said
Tue Jul 12 9:27 PM, 2016
Pochard still at Pomona dock at 18.00 this evening
Zoe Barrett said
Mon Jul 11 8:10 PM, 2016
Drake pochard still present when I left at 19.30 this evening probably blown in from these strong winds
Zoe Barrett said
Mon Jul 11 6:41 PM, 2016
Pochard drake at Pomona dock this evening
Also Kestrels active
Lapwing
Mute Swan
Eugene Dillon-Hooper said
Mon Jul 4 5:57 PM, 2016
Quick nip around on my bike this afternoon, Pamona and the Quays. Not too much about, but I wasn't around for long.
Several Willow Warbler Blackcaps Garden Warbler Singing 4 House martins Cormorants All the usual Gulls Mute Swans, some with cygnets Grey and Pied Wagtails Collard Dove Grey Heron
Sand Martin
Goldfinches
-- Edited by Eugene Dillon-Hooper on Monday 4th of July 2016 06:00:30 PM
Zoe Barrett said
Thu Jun 23 11:06 PM, 2016
3 Stock doves this evening at Pomona. Unusual sighting here
Zoe Barrett said
Fri Jun 17 8:14 PM, 2016
Not sure why my post didn't appear but Wednesday evening:
Couple of hours at Pomona this morning, until the rain turned heavy and chased me away:
3 willow warbler 1 blackcap 6+ whitethroat Goldfinch and greenfinch 30+ sand martin 1 grey wagtail 1 song thrush 4 swift mallard with small brood 8 mute swan 5+ cormorant c30 black-headed gull 4 lesser black-backed gull (others over)
James Walsh said
Sun Jun 12 10:06 AM, 2016
Sunday 29th May
Peregrine, Kestrel & Sparrowhawk at Pomona
James Walsh said
Sun May 29 10:55 AM, 2016
Saturday 28th May
A superb day showing more people around on the Return To Pomona event
Pomona Docks
c10 singing Willow Warblers & c10 Whitethroats on territory
The Sand Martins & Kestrels put on a good show
Also 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Swift & 1 Goosander
James Walsh said
Thu May 19 4:05 PM, 2016
1 Lapwing, 1 Goosander & 3 Swift on Pomona, also Blackcap, Willow Warblers, Whitethroats & Song Thrushes singing in the rain!
James Walsh said
Wed May 18 8:12 PM, 2016
Gorgeous today on Pomona, decent numbers of singing Willow Warblers & Whitethroats, always a pleasure to see in the urban environment, also plenty Sand Martins
Zoe Barrett said
Sat May 14 10:05 PM, 2016
Peregrine at Salford Quays
Pomona:
1 Kestrel 1 Common sandpiper 1 Bullfinch 2 Linnets 2 Swifts plus good numbers of Whitethroat, Willow warblers, Sand martins
I keep meaning to check the area out- it is the area by the canal by the Pomona tram stop?
James Walsh said
Sun May 8 1:38 PM, 2016
Pomona - great Spring birding with 10 male Common Whitethroats and 8 male Willow Warblers on territory, displaying Lapwing, Sparrowhawk, 1 Swallow, a pair of Bullfinch and Sand Martins buzzing around in large numbers, I'm surprised more birders don't visit the site, especially on days like this!
-- Edited by James Walsh on Sunday 8th of May 2016 01:39:58 PM
Zoe Barrett said
Thu May 5 10:30 PM, 2016
Evening visit to Pomona. Nice to bump into James again.
1 Wheatear 1 Grey heron 1 Common sandpiper 2 Coot 2 Long-tailed tits 4 Song thrushes 4 Goosanders 8 Starlings
I tried to alert you to the wheatear but you had vanished by then. It was in between the dockks 1 and 2
James Walsh said
Thu May 5 8:03 PM, 2016
Pomona
Influx of Willow Warblers (c10), Whitethroats (c8) and Sand Martins (up to 150)
Ian McKerchar said
Tue May 3 11:59 AM, 2016
Originally posted today by Fred Ford:
Building work near Hulme bridge seems to have scared off the sand martins which usually nest there. Hope they are nesting elsewhere along thr canal.
steven burke said
Tue May 3 11:34 AM, 2016
10.15am Trafford wharf
1 common sandpiper 3 sand martin 1 swallow 7 herring gull
James Walsh said
Sun May 1 12:46 AM, 2016
Pomona
1 Whitethroat 4 Willow Warbler c100 Sand Martin c30 House Sparrow on north side (area adjacent to the building site) 2 Goosander
South Bay
Up to 50 hirundines, Swallows and Sand Martins, feeding around the big ship with the greenhouse onboard
James Walsh said
Tue Apr 26 11:59 PM, 2016
Tuesday 26th April
Common Sandpiper Clippers Quay
Info Tony O'Mahoney
James Walsh said
Wed Apr 20 3:18 PM, 2016
Tuesday 19th March
Pomona
1 Lapwing 5 singing Willow Warbler c100 Sand Martin
Andrew Ralphs said
Mon Apr 18 6:21 PM, 2016
A tram stop and walk around the area this afternoon ;
Castlefield - Old Trafford (along the Bridgewater Canal) = Mute Swan x2, Canada Geese, Mallards, Greenfinch, Grey Wagtail x2, Sand Martin x2,Willow Warbler, Magpie, Black Headed Gull, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeons.
Trafford Swing Bridge - Media City (along the Ship Canal) - Cormorant x2, Great Northern Diver, Herring Gull x3, Lesser black backed Gulls, Coot x2, Mute Swan x21, Black Headed Gulls, Carrion Crow x2, Magpie, Goldfinch, Long Tailed Tit, Canada Geese.
Great to see the Diver again, in Central Bay, diving twice during sighting.
Superb walk and trams.
Pete Hines said
Mon Apr 18 2:53 PM, 2016
Great Northern Diver - juvenile still present
James Walsh said
Sun Apr 17 8:17 PM, 2016
Pomona
1 Little Ringed Plover 1 Lapwing c100 Sand Martin 5 singing Willow Warbler 1 singing Chiffchaff
steven burke said
Wed Apr 13 10:57 PM, 2016
this morning, great northern diver on Trafford wharf. peregrine falcon, over sparrowhawk, over
15 sand martin 3 willow warbler, 2 singing & feeding along trafford wharf another singing over on merchants quay. 1 Chiffchaff Thought I may of heard a garden warbler along trafford wharf but only heard the once. 1 goosander 4 grey wagtail 1 herring gull 5 meadow pipit, over.
Andrew Ralphs said
Mon Apr 11 9:31 PM, 2016
A tram stop tour of the area today.
Castlefield = Mallards, Canada Geese, Goldfinch, Blue Tit.
Cornbrook - Mute Swans (pair), Black Headed Gulls, Greenfinch.
Pomona - Kestrel x2, Wren, Sand Martin x15, Black Headed Gull x3, Cormorant, Coot.
no sign of the great northern diver along Trafford wharf between 4-5pm. 2 willow warblers were a nice surprise in the birch trees about halfway along Trafford wharf ( my first of the year) feeding with a couple of blue tits. 2 peregrine falcons over media city struggling in the high winds but one did have a kill in its talons, they both disappeared & were not seen again. 7 herring gulls.
steven burke said
Mon Apr 4 9:00 PM, 2016
great northern diver, diving, close to the wall on Trafford wharf (Samuel platts side) just after 2pm.
Shannon, Trafford wharf is that stretch of the ship canal, not sure if it is from the locks to Trafford road bridge or just from the lowry bridge to Trafford road bridge, but I am sure james walsh can clarify this for you.
Colin Wood said
Mon Apr 4 8:15 AM, 2016
Great Northern Diver preening in front of the Lowry Shopping Mall at 08.00 this morning. He's (?) been on or around The Quays now for the better part of four months.
James Walsh said
Sun Apr 3 11:29 PM, 2016
Great Northern Diver Salford Wharf viewable from the promenade in front of The Lowry Shopping Centre present @2000
Drake Tufted Duck South Bay (associating with Mallards)
Shannon Llewellyn said
Sun Apr 3 4:45 PM, 2016
No sign of the great northern diver, but some nice species spied.
Lowry area:
1 peregrine drifting over the Lowry Outlet building, heading in the direction of Old Trafford. 1 common gull with the more numerous black-headed, lesser black-backed and herring gulls. 25 mute swan (including two with blue darvic rings, 4BDP & 4BUV, and one with a small metal ring, ZY7805)
From Media City bridge (is it Trafford Wharf you're looking down onto from here?):
Wheatear immature male - certainly different bird to yesterday
Kingfisher
Lapwing
20 Starlings
3 Cormorants
Dunnock
2 Chiffchaff
2 Robins
Very quiet though overall and difficult to get good views of birds
Wheatear female on south Marsh area
Meadow pipits heard over
5 Mistle thrush
Great spotted Woodpecker on trees by canal a first for me here
Chiffchaff
Lapwing
Plus usual waterbirds (Mute Swan, Mallard, Cormorant, Black headed gull, lesser black-backed gulls)
-- Edited by Zoe Barrett on Friday 9th of September 2016 03:07:20 PM
Pomona:
3 chiffchaff
1 or 2 whitethroat
4 sand martin
1 house martin
1 kingfisher
1 moorhen
11 mute swan (two with blue darvics 4ADI & 4BXH)
1 lapwing
1 grey heron
c10 cormorant
60+ black-headed gull
9 lesser black-backed gull
1 kestrel (multiple views, but always of a female)
1 sparrowhawk
From Trafford Road Bridge to Media City:
1 grey wagtail
7 mute swan (including three full grown juveniles)
2 grey heron
16 cormorant
c300 black-headed gull
40+ lesser black-backed gull
c10 herring gull
4 common gull
1 peregrine (fabulous views of it circling low overhead)
1 Lapwing
There was a semi leucistic Crow in Furness Quays car park today at approximately 12 noon, that just had two white wings, it looked quite extraordinary. As I was in work I didn't have my camera handy
at Pomona this morning - drake Pochard, 20 Sand Martin, 1 House Martin, 2 Swift, 4 Whitethroat inc 2 singing, Willow Warbler feeding young, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Song Thrush, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, 8 juv House Sparrow
1 Common Sandpiper flew from side of Sam Platts in to South Bay
-- Edited by dave broome on Saturday 23rd of July 2016 10:43:58 AM
Pochard drake
Lapwing
Kingfisher
15 Sand Martins
Goldfinch
Blue tit
Greenfinch
Blackcap
Whitethroat singing
3 Cormorant
2 Grey herons
5 Mallard
c.30 Black-headed Gull
30+ House sparrow
Several Willow Warbler
Blackcaps
Garden Warbler Singing
4 House martins
Cormorants
All the usual Gulls
Mute Swans, some with cygnets
Grey and Pied Wagtails
Collard Dove
Grey Heron
Sand Martin Goldfinches
-- Edited by Eugene Dillon-Hooper on Monday 4th of July 2016 06:00:30 PM
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
3 Willow Warbler
2 Whitethroat
Monday evening:
Kestrel
4 Willow Warbler
Lapwing
Bullfinch
20 Starlings
Mistle Thrush
3 willow warbler
1 blackcap
6+ whitethroat
Goldfinch and greenfinch
30+ sand martin
1 grey wagtail
1 song thrush
4 swift
mallard with small brood
8 mute swan
5+ cormorant
c30 black-headed gull
4 lesser black-backed gull (others over)
Peregrine, Kestrel & Sparrowhawk at Pomona
A superb day showing more people around on the Return To Pomona event
Pomona Docks
c10 singing Willow Warblers & c10 Whitethroats on territory
The Sand Martins & Kestrels put on a good show
Also 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Swift & 1 Goosander
Pomona:
1 Kestrel
1 Common sandpiper
1 Bullfinch
2 Linnets
2 Swifts
plus good numbers of Whitethroat, Willow warblers, Sand martins
MSC at Weaste
50+ Swifts
25 House martins
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Oystercatcher
3 Lapwings displaying
9 herring gulls
2 grey wagtail
1 sand martin
1 grey heron
Pomona.
2 blackcaps
5 whitethroats
7 willow warblers
2 common sandpipers
1 kestrel
1 grey heron
2 grey wagtail
c40 sand martins
2 swift
2 goosander
3 mistle thrush
4 song thrush
-- Edited by James Walsh on Sunday 8th of May 2016 01:39:58 PM
1 Wheatear
1 Grey heron
1 Common sandpiper
2 Coot
2 Long-tailed tits
4 Song thrushes
4 Goosanders
8 Starlings
I tried to alert you to the wheatear but you had vanished by then. It was in between the dockks 1 and 2
Influx of Willow Warblers (c10), Whitethroats (c8) and Sand Martins (up to 150)
Building work near Hulme bridge seems to have scared off the sand martins which usually nest there. Hope they are nesting elsewhere along thr canal.
1 common sandpiper
3 sand martin
1 swallow
7 herring gull
1 Whitethroat
4 Willow Warbler
c100 Sand Martin
c30 House Sparrow on north side (area adjacent to the building site)
2 Goosander
South Bay
Up to 50 hirundines, Swallows and Sand Martins, feeding around the big ship with the greenhouse onboard
Common Sandpiper Clippers Quay
Info Tony O'Mahoney
Pomona
1 Lapwing
5 singing Willow Warbler
c100 Sand Martin
A tram stop and walk around the area this afternoon ;
Castlefield - Old Trafford (along the Bridgewater Canal) = Mute Swan x2, Canada Geese, Mallards, Greenfinch, Grey Wagtail x2, Sand Martin x2,Willow Warbler, Magpie, Black Headed Gull, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeons.
Trafford Swing Bridge - Media City (along the Ship Canal) - Cormorant x2, Great Northern Diver, Herring Gull x3, Lesser black backed Gulls, Coot x2, Mute Swan x21, Black Headed Gulls, Carrion Crow x2, Magpie, Goldfinch, Long Tailed Tit, Canada Geese.
Great to see the Diver again, in Central Bay, diving twice during sighting.
Superb walk and trams.
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Lapwing
c100 Sand Martin
5 singing Willow Warbler
1 singing Chiffchaff
peregrine falcon, over
sparrowhawk, over
15 sand martin
3 willow warbler, 2 singing & feeding along trafford wharf another singing over on merchants quay.
1 Chiffchaff
Thought I may of heard a garden warbler along trafford wharf but only heard the once.
1 goosander
4 grey wagtail
1 herring gull
5 meadow pipit, over.
A tram stop tour of the area today.
Castlefield = Mallards, Canada Geese, Goldfinch, Blue Tit.
Cornbrook - Mute Swans (pair), Black Headed Gulls, Greenfinch.
Pomona - Kestrel x2, Wren, Sand Martin x15, Black Headed Gull x3, Cormorant, Coot.
Salford Quays - Mute Swan x21, Coot, Cormorant, Canada Geese, Lesser Black Backed Gulls.
Anchorage - Coot, Starlings, House Sparrows, Goldfinches, Mallards.
Media City - Great Northern Diver, Cormorant, Herring Gull, Pied Wagtail x2, Canada Geese, Lesser Black Backed Gull.
Broadway - Woodpigeon.
Superb walk and trams.
-- Edited by common newt on Monday 11th of April 2016 09:33:48 PM
Swallow 1
Sand Martin 1
Chiffchaff 1
-- Edited by Pete Hines on Sunday 10th of April 2016 07:36:06 AM
2 Kingfisher
1 Great Northern Diver
4 Goosander
2 Chiffchaff
2 willow warblers were a nice surprise in the birch trees about halfway along Trafford wharf ( my first of the year) feeding with a couple of blue tits.
2 peregrine falcons over media city struggling in the high winds but one did have a kill in its talons, they both disappeared & were not seen again.
7 herring gulls.
Shannon, Trafford wharf is that stretch of the ship canal, not sure if it is from the locks to Trafford road bridge or just from the lowry bridge to Trafford road bridge, but I am sure james walsh can clarify this for you.
Drake Tufted Duck South Bay (associating with Mallards)
Lowry area:
1 peregrine drifting over the Lowry Outlet building, heading in the direction of Old Trafford.
1 common gull with the more numerous black-headed, lesser black-backed and herring gulls.
25 mute swan (including two with blue darvic rings, 4BDP & 4BUV, and one with a small metal ring, ZY7805)
From Media City bridge (is it Trafford Wharf you're looking down onto from here?):
1 grey wagtail
1 goldeneye
1 greylag goose
8 cormorant
Pomona:
2 singing chiffchaff
Sand martins in good numbers
Lots of greenfinch, one displaying
2 bullfinch
2 meadow pipit
1 grey wagtail
2 lapwing
3 goosander
3 cormorant (others over)
2 kestrel
Singing Willow Warbler
1 Lapwing
c50 Sand Martin
Singing Chiffchaff
3 Goosander
Chiffchaff 1