Herring Gulls don't breed in Greater Manchester so not sure what you mean by chicks. Do you mean immatures from 2008?

Last morning stroll
2 common terns
Bar headed Goose
There was a pair of GC grebes nesting with two eggs
They were displaced in the last 24 hours by a pair of coots who have started tio build a nest on the grebes patch and former home. More strange is they have a large coot chick with them. This does not appear to be the other brood mentioned eaerlier in the week as they are still on their nest which was also a former great crested grebe nest.
Some tufted duck
Heron
Swift Swallow House and Sand martin
two herring gull chicks
All other characters

Last morning stroll
2 common terns
Bar headed Goose
There was a pair of GC grebes nesting with two eggs
They were displaced in the last 24 hours by a pair of coots who have started tio build a nest on the grebes patch and former home. More strange is they have a large coot chick with them. This does not appear to be the other brood mentioned eaerlier in the week as they are still on their nest which was also a former great crested grebe nest.
Some tufted duck
Heron
All other characters

Another morning Stroll
Teal on main pond
Heron hiding in reeds
Two common terns clearly mates
Family of longtailed and coal tits.
Cormorant near bank on a post
Only two cygnets left

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Wednesday 10th of June 2009 11:19:34 AM

Three common terns diving through the lilly pads on the fishing lodge.
The comerant is back and a Heron was seen mobbed by gulls
The family of coots seen yesterday seems to have one parenmt incubating a new clutch. The lasrge chick keeps its distance from the others but is still part of this brood.

Little of note usual characters
Common terns x 2
bull finch coal tit at hide
plenty of young blackbird blue tits etcParent Coot seen with two chicks definately part of the same brood. The largest of the two chicks was continually chased, pushed under water, and attacked by the parent and younger chick. Then parent would occasionally feed it. This carried on for 20 minutes and then they all returned to the nest.

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Monday 8th of June 2009 11:58:31 AM

Not much of note but counted
65 Mute Swan 5 Cygnets in One brood
12 Tufted duck
Over 30 Mallard 3 ducklings one brood
Over 30 BHgulls
Over 30 Coot with two broods and others sitting
8 Moorhen one brod of two chick
2 GCG
Plenty of Canada Geese two broods
Mistle Thrush
Chaffinch
Hide closed

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Thursday 4th of June 2009 09:17:32 AM

early morning amble
Tufted duck
2 Coot 1 Moorhen 1 mute swan 1 great tit brood
Jay seen robbing eggshell from, swan nest
Chiff chaff heard

Common tern on lodge, Swallow, House Martin, and Swifts over main lodge, Moorhen chick seen, Green finch Bulfinch from hide, Chiff Chaff heard GS Woodpecker seen in Woods.

Common Tern over Crompton Lodges, also Kingfisher on river.

Not much on a very wet morning
Nothing at all on the lodges most seems to have flown including tufted duck.
From ther Hide Black cap GS Woodpecker Bullfinch pair Greenfinch Chaffinch Great Tit Coal Tit Blue Tit Wren Robin Blackbird ETC.

Willow Tit + 7 Siskin on Kearsley Park.

4 Goosander, Kingfisher, Dipper, all on the river Croal. Also a Swallow over Crompton Lodges.

Green Sandpiper at the Croal-Irwell confluence, Around Crompton Lodges, 70 Swans, 25 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 10 Sand Martin, 1 House Martin, 2 Blackcap,4 Chiffchaff, 3 Willow Warbler, Treecreeper, Linnet, Bullfinch.

2 Kingfisher, 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, + 4 Goosander on Irwell at confluence.

Early morning stroll
2 Gt Crested Grebes seen and although the nest in the middle of the main lodge appears to have been taken over by an old coot, the Grebes could be nesting well hidden in the reeds on the south side of the main lodge. The commorant was absent. 30 Tufted duck on all lodges. Large number of usual.
Two old coots are sitting on nests on seperate lodges.
Walking on the board walks surprised a female Goosander out ofthe reeds on the back lodge and she propelled herself at a fast velocity three feet in front of me into the water. Few wrens seen in reeds.
The Hide was quite but the usual Chaffinchs Greenfincest Blue Great and long tailed tits, bull finches still present.
Heard a woodpecker behind the fishing lodge but this was too far away to identify.

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Tuesday 31st of March 2009 08:54:44 AM

Dinner time
Pair of Bullfinches, Greenfinches, Chaffinches, Great Tit Coal Tit Long Tailed Tit Robin Dunnock Blackbird from Hide
On Lodge Coot sitting on nest, Cormorant, Gt Crested Grebes could have moved on as coot seems to have taken over their nesting sight. Tufted Duck other usual lot
Heron 2 Female Goosanders on back lodge
Pied Wagtail and two Mistle thrushes near river


-- Edited by Ian Boote on Monday 30th of March 2009 05:14:58 PM

Curlew, over Cemetery.

Early Windy Morning
on the lodges
Approx 56 Mute Swans
Not many Canada Geese
Plenty of Black Headed Gulls, mallard, coot, moorhen
16 tufted duck
2 GC Grebe nesting out in lake
Female Goosander
Heron
Cormorant
King fisher
From the Hide
8 Greenfinches
2 Blackbird
4 Chaffinch
4 Great Tits
2 Blue tits
Magpie
LongTailed Tit
Robin
Hedge Sparrow


-- Edited by Ian Boote on Monday 23rd of March 2009 07:55:28 PM

62 Mute Swan, 3 Pochard, 40 Tufted Duck, 8 Goosander, Great Crested Grebe, + Oystercatcher over.

Nuthatch, behind cemetery.

64 Mute Swan, 9 Pochard, 41 Tufted Duck, 5 Goosander, From the Hide, 5 Long tailed Tit, 3 Coal Tit, 6 Chaffinch, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Bullfinch.

70 Mute Swan, 7 Pochard, Goldeneye, 9 Goosander, Kingfisher.

Nice male goldeneye this pm plus all the usual.

68 Mute Swan, 4 Pochard, 3 Goosander, Kingfisher, 6 Mistle Thrush, 15 Goldfinch, 7 Bullfinch.

63 Mute Swan, 80 Mallard, +30 on river Croal, 5 Goosander on river, 2 Coal Tit, Treecreeper, 2 Bullfinch.

Yesterday (25th) 16 Goosander and a Kingfisher.

65 Mute Swan, 3 Pochard, 45 Tufted Duck, 1 female Goldeneye, 7 Goosander, all on Crompton Lodges, also a Nuthatch behind Farnworth cemetery.

10 Wigeon on Crompton lodges, + 130 Goldfinch at Nob End.N.R.

95 Mute Swan, 90 Canada Geese, 162 Mallard, 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe with 3 young, 16 Moorhen, 75 Coot, Kingfisher, Common Whitethroat, 30 Goldfinch at Nob End.N.R. 2 Bullfinch.

93 Mute Swan, 102 Canada Geese,115 Mallard, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2Grey Heron, Kestrel, 17 Moorhen, 70 Coot, 2 Kingfisher.

90 Mute Swan, 110 Canada Geese, 14 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, 24 Moorhen, 60 Coot, 1 Adult Common Tern, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, One Dipper on River Croal.

83 Mute Swan, 110 Canada Goose, 40 Mallard, 3 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Grey Heron,2 Common Sandpiper, Tawny Owl, Coal Tit, Bullfinch.

86 Mute Swan, 75 Canada Goose, 1 Great Crested Grebe, two pairs of Moorhens with 3 & 4 young,100+ Swift, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Treecreeper, 2 Bullfinch.

82 Mute Swan, 50 + Canada Geese, Tawny Owl with young , Grey Wagtail feeding young,1 Dipper, + 2 Black Swans.

80 Mute Swan, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Dipper, Great Spotted Woodpecker at nest with young, 2 Black Swans.