oh right. I live quite close to there, should visit it more often really.

Timed Tetrad Visit - we are all doing Atlas work for the national atlas (winter and summer) and Greater Manchester Breeding Atlas - breeding work starts tomorrow! Have a look at the Bird Surveys page on this website.
A tetrad is a 2km x 2km square.

whats a ttv? 'top titillating viewpoint'?

On one of my TTVs. Looking forward to Grasshopper Warbler there. It was decommissioned about 1980 I think.

ah yes, same place I was thinking.

It's between Golborne Rd and Ashton Heath. You can get to it either by the old access road off Golborne Rd, or from the bottom of Heath Road (on your left just before it turns to a gravel track), from the path at the bottom of Lincoln Drive, or from a path off Edge Green Lane (i think thats what it's called). It's very overgrown these days, but it used to be a sewage works. Theres the remains of a few concrete tracks and a settling tank of some sort, which is now a smelly little fishing pond.

old sewage works?

is that the wooded area near golborne and the harrow? also near ashton heath? i was wandering what people on here called it.

Rob Smallwood wrote:

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Mersey or Lyne?

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Neither, it's Ashton-in-Makerfield (near Wigan). Apologies for the badly titled post, I always forget about the other Ashtons

Mersey or Lyne?

Blackcap - singing and seen @ 9:35am. Info thanks to Terry Thorpe