Old Hall Farm, 8.00am

Wheatear 4
Whinchat 1
Reed bunting 1
Linnet 2
Sand Martin 1
Red-legged partridge 1
Tree sparrows 4
Pied wagtail 3
Lapwing lots

1 swift at Church Lane 11:00 approx

Old Hall Lane:

Stock Doves 21 (feeding party)
Lapwings 28 (mostly paired)
Wheatear 1
Red-legged Partridge 3
Buzzard 1
Blackcap 1
Linnet 2

Cheers, John

Church Lane:
2m, 1f, Wheatears (5 here yesterday per Andy Hearn)

Old Hall Lane:
8 Swallows
6 Sand Martins
3 Buzzards

Cheers, John

Church Lane (from cricket club)

Today:
Wheatear

Yesterday:
Willow Warbler
Swallow
Oystercatcher

Church Lane:
Absolutely dead. Nothing !

Bridle Road:
Teal 2

Old Hall Lane:
Oystercatcher 2
Meadow Pipits 6
Curlew 2
Stock Doves 4
Still no Sand Martins

On the airfield (But all in Cheshire):
Golden Plover 31
Linnet 12
Tree Sparrow 2
Oystercatcher 4
Kestrel 1
Buzzard 1
Stock Doves - many

Cheers, John

About 8 Swallows just passed through my garden on Moor Lane.

Church Lane:

2 Wheatear in the top field,
1 Little Ringed Plover on the small puddle that has formed due to the recent rain,
7 Pied Wagtails,
3 Canada Geese low over.

Old Hall Lane

15 Meadow Pipits
2 Tree Sparrows
3 Buzzards
1 Snipe
1 Red-legged Partridge

Cheers John

Church Lane
Much the same as yesterday :

Redwing
Pair of mallard

Phil

Church Lane

Unable to see any water now, this time last year we had swallow. Little chance of a good wader passage unless we have some rain!

Quiet birdwise

Fieldfare ticking away
Redwings
Unable to see anything on the former flood

Phil

Thanks Rory, i'll check that area out soon and see if i can see them!
p.s. where IS the best place?

Hi Laurence,

Yes the Little Owls are resident and are always around if you know where too look.

3 Little Ringed Plovers flew onto the flood at 4:50 this afternoon, followed by 2 Meadow Pipts.
(And the Little Owls of course ;) )

Rory, are the little owls on church lane resident there?

Exactly the same as yesterday plus a singing Siskin by the Cricket Club.

Old Hall Lane: 1 Woodcock flushed beside Old Hall Farm, then proceeded to fly over the airfield until out of sight. Church Lane: 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Owl, 1 Curlew, 2 Pied Wagtail.

6 black-headed gulls on what water remains
3 different great spotted woodpeckers drumming

Phil

Church Lane this afternoon:

1 Little Owl
1 Curlew in the top field
Peregrine over at 4:00pm
2 Buzzards
2 Stock Doves by the roadside

Bewicks Swans at Woodford flushed by a dog walker at 09:53; flew off north-west and lost to view.

Info thanks to John Rayner

2 Bewicks Swan at Upper Swineseye Farm, Woodford, SJ 902828 at 09:45am. May be liable to disturbance at this location though.

Info thanks to John Rayner

2 Swans were accidentally flushed by Jack Canovan from the Adlington side of the airfield at 08.55 and they appeared to land in GM. I re-found them on a tiny pool in a field near Upper Swineseye Farm and was amazed to see thtey were Bewick's. The pool is only a few metres from a footpath so no surprise they were soon flushed. 2 Local birders managed to get down just in time so there could be some good photos.

Also on the pool were 5 Teal and 2 Oystercatchers.
1 Buzzard and 4 Ravens over.

Cheers John

-- Edited by John Rayner on Thursday 28th of March 2013 11:06:53 AM

Church Lane

A Stonechat briefly at 09.40 (info Barry Shaw)
2 Buzzards and 1 Common Gull

Old Hall Lane

1 Curlew on airfield
1 Fieldfare feeding with 4 Mistle Thrushes

Cheers, John

3 golden plover at Church Lane, about 4.00pm (Information from my other half, Kevin).

Also, at 1.30pm, 2 little ringed plover and 1 little owl

In the horse pond field, 2 common gull, 1 great black backed gull, 1 oystercatcher

6 teal in the pond in the first field after George Best's house on the right hand side of Blossoms Lane



-- Edited by Lynne Webster on Wednesday 27th of March 2013 08:05:26 PM

2 Little Ringed Plovers again this afternoon, plus a Little Owl at about 1:15.

No sign of the Stonechat unfortunately.

-- Edited by Rory Newton on Wednesday 27th of March 2013 04:28:39 PM

Two Little Ringed Plovers this afternoon at church Lane

Mixed flock of redwing, fieldfares and starling feeding in the field opposite the flash.

An oystercatcher near the horse pond, and a flock of meadow pipits working their way along the horse pond field.

Nothing at Church Lane at 17:30 either, apart from a few Jackdaws heading to roost, and some truly horrible weather.

Nothing at Church Lane.

Old Hall Lane

19 Stock Doves
2 Lapwings
49 Mallard
c100 Fieldfare
3 Curlew (airfield)
5 Golden Plover (airfield)

Cheers John

Little-ringed Plover at Church Lane.

Info courtesy of Andy Hearn

Cheers John

Old Hall Lane, 4.00-5.00pm yesterday.

Scores of lapwings on the ploughed fields.
A mixed flock of starlings, fieldfares and mistle thrushes.
6 mandarin ducks amongst dozens of mallards in a ploughed field by Old Hall Farm.
Several pairs of stock doves.

-- Edited by Lynne Webster on Wednesday 6th of March 2013 09:40:58 PM

4 waxwings in a garden tree at Blossoms Lane

Mixed flock of 40 redwing, 6 starling and 30 goldfinch feeding on the ground in a horse field

Church Lane:

Black-headed Gull 37
Common Gull 2
Redwing 1

Old Hall Lane:

Mallard 49
Stock Dove 19
Woodpigeon c120
Kestrel 1m

Cheers, John

A single Oystercatcher at the Church Lane Flood this morning.
Still there at 3.30 this afternoon.

Church Lane Flood: Still plenty of water but a poor showing of late:

Canada Goose 23
BH Gull c30

Cheers, John

Church Lane held 4 species of gull

BH Gull 124
Common Gull 2
LBB Gull 1
Herring Gull 1 (ad)

Cheers, John

A solitary Great Black-backed Gull at the edge of the flood this afternoon.

Seen on my way home from work.

-- Edited by Tony Darby on Wednesday 30th of January 2013 06:47:52 PM

Church Lane 29th Jan:

46 Redwings
2 Fieldfares
12 Starlings
1 Pied Wagtail

All in the field surrounding the water, which contained absolutely nothing - no gulls, no wildfowl.

Cheers, John

Church Lane
9 fieldfare
10 black-headed gulls


Phil

Church Lane:

12 Fieldfare
c200 Starlings
32 BH Gulls
1 Common Gull

Old Hall Lane:

11 Mallard
3 Teal
2 Goosanders
9 Siskins
2 Lapwings
19 Meadow Pipits
3 Tree Saprrows

and a Great-spotted Woodpecker drumming

Cheers, John

Church Lane

1 Dunlin reported today (Brian Swann)

Cheers, John

Church Lane

Completely frozen.

36 black-headed gulls
2 lesser black-backed gulls
3 rooks
1 pied wagtail

Phil

Church Lane:

The flood only held gulls - no other species either on the water or immediate surrounding field.

Black-headed Gull (127)
Common Gull 11

Cheers, John

Sunday 6th January 11.30am

Higlight for me, on a quick run around Church Lane and Blossoms Lane, was finding 6 Siskin atop a tree on Blossoms Lane just after the stables.
A Kestrel flew across the fields in the direction of Blossoms

Church Lane:
300+ Black headed gulls
2 Lesser black backed gulls
Lots of gulls coming and going the whole time.

4th January: Church Lane

Decent numbers of large gulls.

Lesser Black-backed Gull (8)
Herring Gull (5)
Common Gull (9)
Black-headed Gull (424)

I was specifically searching for Mediterranean Gull so pulled up short when I found a white-winger. Unfortunately it was definitely a Black-headed Gull with white primaries. Typical adult Black-headed Gull bill and grey shade of mantle. In flight the grey mantle and inner wing contrasted abruptly with the white outer wing. Possibly a Med x Black-headed Gull hybrid.

Cheers, John.

3rd Jan (11.00 - 12.15)

Church Lane:

Great Black-backed Gull (adult). Present for its 2nd day. A local rarity these days with the combined efforts of all local birders rarely producing more than 1 sighting per year. It flew west at 12.15.
Lesser Black-backed Gull (9)
Herring Gull (1 ad, 1 3rd w, 1 juv)
Common Gull (2)
Black-headed Gull (247)
Starlings (c20)
Pied Wagtail (1)

Cheers, John