Lesser Whitethroat singing today along Close Lane, just off the housing estate
Sedge Warbler singing at Grammar Pits, east of Park Road

amberswood is your best bet in hindley. there has been a cuckoo there every year for the last few years. assuming its the same bird. but its always in the same area. and there are some nice wooded areas.

i normally park up in that pub car park on liverpool road and its only a short distance to the lake from there.

yesterday me and my birding friend went to the hills at the end of maple avenue were i live, there was some birds that i didnt expect to see. . willow warbler . blackcap . crow . jackdaw and a rather strange visitor to the area, a couple of sandmartins and a dunnock. there is also mallards swallows and the usual chaffinches and great and blue tits. i didnt think it would be good for birding up there,perhaps i was mistaken.