7.30-9.30am

4 Song thrush
2 Mistle thrush
3 Chiffchaff
2 Willow warblers seen and many more heard
Coal tit
GS Woodpecker
4 Chaffinch
Bullfinch
2 Greenfinch
2 Goldfinch
4 LT tits
Sparrowhawk soaring around

Even through this area is only 5 minutes walk from my house, I have not visited it since I was at nearby Eccles college in 1977-78. Its changed a lot especially where the water treatment plant was and good news in that there was plenty of birds about.

Old Treatment plant area
13 Magpies
2 Jackdaw
4 Jays
2 GS Woodpeckers
4 Bullfinch [3m,1f]
Mistle thrush
4 Goldfinch
Blackbird
Sparrowhawk[ m]
Blue, Great and Coal tits
2 Small flocks of LT tits [ 6 ,9]
3 Robins

Campbell road woods up to East lancs road,

Sparrowhawk [f]
Kestrel
7 Bullfinch[ 2m5f]
6 Chaffinch
9 Goldfinch
2 Jays
4 Magpies
4 Fieldfare beside Golf course
Tit flock of 19 + birds mainly LT tits and a couple of Blue,
GS Woodpecker
3 Mistle thrush
20 Wood pigeon

After my previous post had a couple of hours today and did not see a single long tail or Robin. That must be the first time ever.
Wren
Blue tit
Great tit
Magpie x 19 in one tree
Wood pigeon
Blackbird
Starling
Jay
Bull finch
Chaff finch
Crow
Heron x 2 (3 sisters, in the stream not the pond)
Mistle thrush
Field fare
Buzzard flying over

I have been going out every few days and putting a couple of bags of seed out at various sites around the fields. The long tail tits seem to be doing well on here, a few people have said they have notied a drop in numbers.

Quick visit this afternoon to do some atlasing.
Roost of 116+ magpie and 6 carrion crow
Fieldfare
Bullfinch 2
Meadow pipit 1 over
Sparrowhawk
Peregrine
Small passerines apparently doing OK:
Goldcrest 4
Wren
Long-tailed Tit 3 parties

Steve

Had a walk over this morning
Blue tit
Great tit
Mistle Thrush
Sparrow Hawk
Bull Finch
Green Finch
Robin
Jay
50 ish Pinkies over
1 Whooper Over
Maybe 6 Fieldfare just as the sun was coming up then Mr Sparrowhawk flew over and put everything up. So not 100%.
On the golf course 8 Magpies attacking a Crow really going for it had him pinned down and for a few minutes.

800-10 Today
Starling
Wood pigeon
Blue tit
Great tit
Long tail tit
Jay x 4
Moorhen
Bull finch
Gold finch
Blackbird
collered dove
Magpie
heard Woodpecker drumming

thats correct, the sewage works is adjacent the actual fields/woods. This site has now been cleared of all machinery and nature is taking over again. We have alocal group to try and keep it green space because as usual they want to build on it.

This is the site of the former Swinton sewage works, I think, at SD772003 (had a look round some years ago)? That's what's on the database anyway!

Went and had a quick walk this morning as my little lad was asleep and the wife was busy. I live 2 minutes from the woods/fields and used to play on there all the time when I was a kid. If I go out, it's usually to Pennington or Clifton Country park. But going to make this a new and regular patch. 12.00-1.15 Starling Thrush Robin also found a couple of owl pellets. Bull Finnch Gold Finch x 11 Great Tit Blue Tit Blackbird Magpie Jay Sparrow Hawk number of Gulls Long tail Tits Dunnock