c20 Fieldfares over Crompton and Royton golf course

Peregrine over Crompton and Royton golf course 4:10pm

5 Teal on Three Gates Farm pool

Singing Chiffchaff Royton Linear Park

Singing Chiffchaff enjoying the sunshine in the ginnel trees on Shaw Road, Royton this morning

Monday 19th September 2022

c100 hirundines on Hough Farm, mainly Swallows, also small numbers of House Martins and Sand Martins

Hough Farm

c70 Swallows
1 Buzzard
5 Meadow Pipits
10 Pied Wagtail

Hough Farm

30 Swallows
20 House Martins

Thursday 2nd June 2022 Hough Farm

2 Oystercatcher
8 Lapwing
1 Buzzard
3 Swift
c20 House Martin
c10 Swallow 16th May 2022 Pair of Teal - Hough Farm

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-- Edited by James Walsh on Friday 3rd of June 2022 08:31:38 AM

Hough Farm

1 Oystercatcher
c10 Swift
c20 House Martin
c10 Swallow

Friday 6th May 2022

Male Reed Bunting Hough Farm on the hedgerow on Hough Lane just west of the farm

Singing Grasshopper Warbler in juncus field on Oozewood Road opposite the first Tandle Hill Country Park entrance

Hough Farm

1 Swallow
1 Sand Martin
Singing male Linnet
Drake Teal
2 Lapwing


Three Gates Farm

1 Lapwing

Raven NW/ over Higginshaw / Salmon Fields at 3:15pm calling and heading towards Royton

Thornham Old Road

1 singing Skylark
1 Sand Martin
5 Lapwings


Hough Farm

1 Sand Martin
2 Oystercatchers
8 Lapwings

3 Lapwings on Hough Farm

Hough Farm

1 Little Grebe
3 Lapwing
3 Teal (2 drakes)

A pair of Teal on Thornham Old Road ponds, also 5 Lapwings on fields along Thornham Old Road

1 singing Chiffchaff - Tandle Hill Country Park

1 displaying Lapwing - Hough Farm

1 singing Chiffchaff along the old railway line footpath between Royton and Salmon Fields

30 Redwings on Hough Farm, also 1 Buzzard

Tandle Hill Country Park

1 singing Chiffchaff
3 drumming Great Spotted Woodpeckers


Hough Farm

1 Little Grebe
8 Lapwings


Thornham Old Road

3 singing Skylark
2 Lapwings
10 singing male Chaffinches

Salmon Fields

1 Nuthatch
1 Coot
6 Moorhen
4 Mallard
2 Canada Geese

2 Oystercatchers and 2 Fieldfares on Hough Farm

2 Oystercatchers and a big flock of Fieldfares, Redwings, Starlings and Mistle Thrushes on Hough Farm

c30 Fieldfare, c100 Redwing and 2 Mistle Thrush showing well on the fields and trees on Hough Farm before a Sparrowhawk flushed the flock

Wednesday 2nd February 2022 - World Wetlands Day

Hough Farm

4 Wigeon


Three Gates Farm

Drake Teal


Also 2 Snipe flew over Tandle Hill calling at 5:20pm

27th December 2021

15 Pink-footed Geese in fields between Hough Farm and Tandle Hill

16 Teal on Three Lanes Farm

Information thanks to Richard Hart

2 Lapwings on Hough Farm

11 Siskin briefly in trees along the footpath between Shaw Road and Higginshaw Lane (near Salmon Fields road junction)

Also 2 Goldcrest in with a Long-tailed Tit flock

1 Buzzard on Hough Farm

Friday 30th July 2021

Hough Farm

1 adult Lapwing with 2 juveniles

Sunday 11th July 2021

Hough Farm, Tandle Hill

c50 Swallows
c10 Sand Martins

Hough Farm

1 singing Skylark
30 Lapwings

Hough Farm

40 Lapwing
10 Swift
4 Oystercatcher


Three Gates Farm

1 singing Skylark

1 Sand Martin and 10 Lapwings on Hough Farm

Hough Farm

1 singing Skylark


Thursday 20th May

1 singing Skylark in fields around the Fair View Inn

2 Lapwings on fields around the Fair View Inn

Three Gates Farm

3 Oystercatchers

Hough Farm

7 Linnets
1 Little Grebe
1 Lapwing
2 Swift
20 Sand Martin
2 House Martin
20 Swallow
1 Whitethroat
1 Reed Bunting


Three Gates Farm

1 Lapwing

Hough Farm

1 Swift
30+ Swallows
2 Little Grebes
3 Lapwing


Three Gates Farm

1 Oystercatcher
1 Lapwing

Hough Farm

1 singing male Whitethroat
2 Little Grebe
1 Lapwing
5 Sand Martin


Three Gates Farm

2 singing male Blackcap
1 Oystercatcher
2 Lapwing

Three Gates Farm

2 Oystercatcher
2 Lapwing

Hough Farm

Drake Shoveler
4 Lapwing
2 Little Grebe
30+ Sand Martin
10+ Swallow

Thornham Old Road

4 Skylark, including 3 in song flight
2 Lapwing
10 Sand Martin
2 Reed Buntings

Hough Farm Pool

2 Little Grebes


Three Gates Farm

1 Oystercatcher

Hough Farm Pool

1 Little Ringed Plover
3 Lapwings
1 Little Grebe

Three Gates Farm

Pair of Lapwings with 3 chicks


Hough Farm

2 Little Grebe
2 Lapwing
2 Buzzard
1 Sparrowhawk

1 singing Skylark, 2 Lapwings and 5 Buzzards on Thornham Old Road in the fields also 2 singing male Chaffinches and 3 Swallows