Tom, can you copy this to the existing Wigan Flashes thread please.

This morning - 3 Black Tailed Godwits, Pair Teal, 2 pairs Great Crested Grebes, Sedge Warbler, single Gadwall and Pochard drakes - Pearsons, 2 Comorants - Turners, 2 pairs Common Terns and 5 BH Gull nests Horrocks West along with singing Garden Warbler (by railway bridge) and a a pair of Redpolls, plus Mallard with 10 ducklings; 4 BH gull nests Horrocks East; Pair Canadas with 6 goslings Bryn marsh; many Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Reed Warblers, Chifchaff and Willow Warblers everywhere but apart from 2 Swallows an absence of hirundines and Swifts.