Boarshaw Lane Flashes, plus a walk up the canal and along Boarshaw Lane
15 Teal 2 Goosander 1 male Shoveler 3 Snipe 4 Cormorant 2 Buzzard - 1 near the flashes and 1 over towards Chadderton Fold 2 Skylark heard in flight heading towards Tandle Hill 3 singing Song Thrush
Green Sandpiper Boarshaw Lane Flashes on the main flash, still present at 4pm (information thanks to Dave Ousey)
View only from Boarshaw Lane or from the track, viewing through the trees, at the top of the railway embankment accessed just east of the Boarshaw Lane railway bridge, please don't enter the fields
2 Little Grebe
1 Rook
3 Teal
25 Lapwings
1 Buzzard
c30 Pink-footed Geese east at 12:30pm
1 Sand Martin
1 Lapwing
2 Whitethoat
1 Buzzard
70 Goldfinch
2 pairs of Coot - 1 pair feeding 2 juveniles
5 Pied Wagtails
The muddy margins of the main flash are looking good for waders
1 singing male Reed Bunting
1 Lapwing
1 Grey Heron
9th May 2022
Pair of Teal
Thursday 5th May 2022
Green Woodpecker heard yaffling
2 Lapwings
Juvenile Mute Swan
1 Linnet - Boarshaw Lane Flashes
2 Snipe
6 Oystercatchers
1 Lapwing
4 Teal
3 Reed Bunting
2 Buzzard
1 Lapwing
1 juv Mute Swan
1 Buzzard
1 Cormorant
20 Snipe - on the small flash adjacent to the Rochdale Canal
14 Teal
Drake Goosander
2 Cormorant
1 Buzzard
10 Snipe
1 Wigeon
10 Teal
4 Goosander
5 Cormorants
Boarshaw Lane Flashes
8 Snipe - showing well on the small flash adjacent to the Rochdale Canal
3 Wigeon
3 Goosander
8 Teal
5 Cormorant
3 Wigeon
3 Goosander
4 Teal
7 Cormorant
7 Wigeon
7 Teal
11 Cormorant
2 Goosander
Drake Shoveler
8 Wigeon
15 Teal
2 Lapwing
7 Cormorants
1 Goosander
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
12 Wigeon
10 Teal
13 Cormorant
1 Goosander
2 Oystercatchers
Female Stonechat, showing well on the juncus around the two smaller flashes viewable from the Rochdale Canal towpath
Drake Shoveler
12 Wigeon
10 Teal
6 Goosander
9 Cormorant
1 Buzzard
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel
Boarshaw Lane Flashes
12 Wigeon
10 Teal
6 Goosander
Information thanks to Richard Hart
12 Wigeon
7 Teal
1 Lapwing
10 Cormorants
1 Buzzard
2 Oystercatcher
12 Wigeon
6 Teal
4 Goosander
8 Cormorant
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel
Boarshaw Lane Flashes, plus a walk up the canal and along Boarshaw Lane
15 Teal
2 Goosander
1 male Shoveler
3 Snipe
4 Cormorant
2 Buzzard - 1 near the flashes and 1 over towards Chadderton Fold
2 Skylark heard in flight heading towards Tandle Hill
3 singing Song Thrush
Boarshaw Lane Flashes
1 Stonechat
8 Wigeon
11 Teal
4 Snipe
2 Goosander
4 Cormorant
1 Buzzard
Boarshaw Lane Flashes
Female Shoveler
21 Wigeon
12 Teal
8 Goosander
5 Cormorant
2 Buzzard
Information thanks to Richard Hart
27th December 2021
6 Wigeon
8 Teal
7 Goosander
8 Snipe
1 Peregrine
Information thanks to Richard Hart
1 Stonechat
5 Wigeon
10 Snipe
7 Goosander
4 Mute Swans
1 Redpoll
5 Siskin
1 Raven
8 Wigeon (3 drakes)
1 Mute Swan
10 Rook
1 Little Grebe
1 Cormorant
1 Mute Swan
3 (1 drake) Wigeon
1 Little Grebe
2 Cormorant
35 Lapwings
2 Buzzards
Boarshaw Lane Flashes
1 singing male Reed Bunting
2 Swift
1 Reed Bunting
2+ Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Cormorant
5 Swallow
1 Jay
1 Whitethroat
1 Buzzard
2 Reed Bunting
3 Grey Heron
Boarshaw Clough
2 Swift
5 Blackcap (4 singing male, 1 female)
1 Chiffchaff
1 Dipper
3 Lapwing
2 Cormorant
2 Buzzard
3 Swallow
3 singing male Whitethroat
1 male Blackcap (in sub-song?)
10 singing Willow Warblers
2 singing Chiffchaff
3 Buzzards
Boarshaw Lane Flashes
Drake Teal on the pool adjacent to the Rochdale Canal
1 Little Grebe on the main flash
1 Reed Bunting
5 Swallows
2 Oystercatchers
1 Little Grebe
1 Lapwing
3 Swallow
1 Buzzard
2 Bullfinch
Drake Teal on the pool adjacent to the Rochdale Canal
1 Little Grebe on the main flash
1 Buzzard
1 Oystercatcher
2 Snipe
1 Oystercatcher
1 Sand Martin
5 Swallow
3 Teal (2 drakes)
2 Buzzard
1 singing Willow Warbler
View only from Boarshaw Lane or from the track, viewing through the trees, at the top of the railway embankment accessed just east of the Boarshaw Lane railway bridge, please don't enter the fields