There was an agreement umpteen years ago between Judith Smith as GM Recorder and Maurice Jones as Lancashire Recorder to include the whole of the Worthington Lakes complex including Adlington Reservoir and Arley Nature Reserve in GM for recording purposes, since it is essentially a single site.
However, we at Chorley Natural History Society still include the whole of Arley Nature Reserve and Adlington Reservoir (it being essentially a single site) in our own records, as we always have done. So there's a bit of overlap, but it won't make any difference to anything in the greater scheme of things.
I hope the paint is now dry.
Neil
dave broome said
Tue Jan 31 4:44 AM, 2012
I know this subject may be like watching paint dry to some people and our own artificial boundaries are meaningless to the birds themselves, etc, etc...........
The subject of the Wigan-Chorley boundary at the north end of Worthington Lakes cropped up last week (both fine Lancashire boroughs in their own right). This boundary does indeed meander through Adlington Reservoir. A check of maps from before the reservoirs were formed shows that it partly follows the pre-reservoir course of the River Douglas and mostly the former course of Buckow Brook, itself the boundary of Worthington and Adlington Township. These former routes of the watercourses are still mapped as River Centrelines by the Environment Agency.
it appears that my s key only works intermittantly, so please for give any missing ones.
and thanks for the info on the area
trouble with red kite is having lived in oxfordshire i've had them on the garden list before which means now i'm up here i'm a lot more blase about them than they deserve
Ian McKerchar said
Fri Sep 9 9:36 PM, 2011
Definately Cheshire Jason and a good sighting either way. An Ordanance Survey map is your best best (or a Greater Manchester A to Z) to work out our boundary.
jason fisher said
Fri Sep 9 9:26 PM, 2011
how far doe the GM recording area reach to the west of manchester?
doe it for example reach as far as the junction of the M56 and M6 as i had a red kite sighting over there earlier on today and don't know whether to out it down as a GM or cheshire bird
There was an agreement umpteen years ago between Judith Smith as GM Recorder and Maurice Jones as Lancashire Recorder to include the whole of the Worthington Lakes complex including Adlington Reservoir and Arley Nature Reserve in GM for recording purposes, since it is essentially a single site.
However, we at Chorley Natural History Society still include the whole of Arley Nature Reserve and Adlington Reservoir (it being essentially a single site) in our own records, as we always have done. So there's a bit of overlap, but it won't make any difference to anything in the greater scheme of things.
I hope the paint is now dry.
Neil
The subject of the Wigan-Chorley boundary at the north end of Worthington Lakes cropped up last week (both fine Lancashire boroughs in their own right
Luckily, Red Kite isn't a description species....
and thanks for the info on the area
trouble with red kite is having lived in oxfordshire i've had them on the garden list before which means now i'm up here i'm a lot more blase about them than they deserve
doe it for example reach as far as the junction of the M56 and M6 as i had a red kite sighting over there earlier on today and don't know whether to out it down as a GM or cheshire bird