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This morning's highlights:

 

1 swallow N

A spiral of 8 Buzzard N

7 curlew NE

120 Meadow Pipit N

11 Brambling N 

 

Info thank to Andy Makin



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Highlights from today included:

3 Twite calling low over north

3 Curlew

Adult Mediterranean Gull south 

 

Info thanks to Andy Makin



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This morning's moors highlights:

 

35 Curlew 35 north in several small flocks

1 Golden Plover

549 Meadow Pipit N

 

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Some totals from the moors today, 07:45-10:30:

 

19 Curlew N

154  Meadow Pipit N

18 Brambling and 11 Siskin N

 

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09.30-14.30

Georges Lane : 2 Kestrels, 3 Ravens, 2 Lapwings and 1 Jay. 1 Meadow Pipit in display flight.

Burnt Edge : 28 Meadow Pipits (inc. 2 in display flight)and 3 Kestrels.

The pipits using the wall at the bottom of Burnt Edge as a launch pad need to be careful, a Stoat was patrolling the top of a wall nearby.

Walker Fold : 1 Buzzard and 1 Song Thrush.

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Highlights from Scout Road this morning:

 

15 curlew N

12 Golden Plover N

1 adult  Mediterranean Gull N and 2 further adults S

109 Meadow Pipits N

 

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Quieter today in the skies over Scout Road but 15 Curlews through north was the main highlight.

Info thanks to Andy Makin



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Highlights from Scout Road this morning included:

 

49 Curlew north, briefly dropping below the watchpoint to feed then moving on

2 Greylag Goose SW

117 Woodpigeon N

75 Meadow Pipit N

26 Siskin N

10 Brambling 10 S 

 

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06:45-10:30 today, first two hours from Georges Lane then later from Scout Road:

 

1 Oystercatcher N

34 Curlew grounded below Scout Road and then flew off north

1011 Woodpigeon N/NW

61 Fieldfare and 22 Redwing NW

1 Siskin, 23 Chaffinch and 3 Brambling N

32 Lesser Redpoll N

 

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An Osprey flew north past the very western edge of the Moors at 7am this morning.

Info thanks to Andy Makin



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Other sightings from Georges Lane this morning included (all birds heading over north):

3 Raven 

2 Curlew 

46 Skylark 

203 Meadow Pipit

105 Chaffinch  

8 Brambling 

17 Lesser Redpoll 

37 Siskin 

 

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A single Hawfinch flew south over Georges Lane at 07:40 this morning but was eventually lost to view.

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A couple of highlights from on site yesterday (19th) were:

Male Wheatear Georges Lane

Single Chiffchaff in heather by Scout Road quarry

 

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Scout Road this morning, 8-11:15am, birds over included:

 

10 Curlew N

33 Meadow Pipit N

4 Lesser Redpoll  and Siskin 2 N

2 adult Mediterranean Gulls high SE

 

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Sightings from three hours on Georges Lane from 7:30am today included:

 

3 single Curlew ENE

3 female then 1 male Crossbill N

18 Lesser Redpoll

107 Chaffinch

6 Siskin 

 

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Had a walk yesterday from walker fold wood up to the mast and back. Buzzard Kestrel Sparrowhawk Raven But the highlight was a short eared owl seen for 5-10 minutes on the opposite side of mast road but parallel with 2 lads. Brilliant to watch it quartering and even my wife and daughter were impressed!!!!

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Male Merlin north over Horrocks Moor today, also 300 Woodpigeon north and  4 Goosander down on Bryan Hey Reservoir.

 

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Accidentally flushed a Woodcock out of reeds on the way up to Sheep Cote Green Farm .

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A Snow Bunting on Two Lads Hill at 1:45pm today.

 

It flew over Mast Road calling but went silent and then was refound on the slopes on the west side of the hill.

 

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Ring tail Hen Harrier low NE over Georges Lane and Wildersmoor this morning.

 

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Totals from this morning's sightings from the moors:

 

7 skeins of Pink-footed Geese with 359 SE, 110 NW and 58 NE

Good numbers of Woodpigeon moving, mainly N/NE with 2137 and a further 487 S/SW

27 Redwing

22 Fieldfare NW

Male Peregrine N

A Stonechat at Heather Hall

 

Info thanks to Andy Makin



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Some sightings from the area today:

 

Scout Road- 5 Crossbill

 

Gale Brook- 64 Fieldfare, 43 Chaffinch NE at 9am

 

Georges Lane- 4 Crossbill flew north at 9:42am, 86 Fieldfare, 22 Redwing

 

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes



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Late news for yesterday's highlights, 07:30-09:45:

2489 Pink-footed Geese SE in 16 skeins plus 1 skein of 51 NW

12 Whooper Swan SE at 09:20

290 Fieldfare N

60 Redwing N

1 Hawfinch N over Scout Road at 07:45 

 

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This morning up to 11am, partly with Andy Makin and Phil Rhodes -

1680 Pink-footed Geese ESE
26 Whooper Swan SE
1 male Ring Ouzel in field next to Scout Road quarries.
1 Snow Bunting east over Dean's Ditch
62 Fieldfare, where are they all this winter?
34 Chaffinch north
Dan Brown had a Red Kite over his Horwich garden heading low towards George's Lane but we couldnt pick it up despite is being near Wilderswood at the time.

-- Edited by Simon Warford on Sunday 12th of November 2017 06:48:27 PM

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Higher Meadows/Georges Lane this morning:

 

17 snipe west in three flocks

1 Bar-tailed Godwit west with seven Snipe

1 Golden Plover west

3 Crossbill SE

72 Chaffinch mainly north

 

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8 Crossbill flew out of Wildeswood at 10:20 this morning and headed SE.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes



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Todays Vis Mig highlights, with Andy Makin, Ken Haydock and Phil Rhodes from Georges Lane (Scout Road fogged out)-

An impressive flock of c1000 Pink-footed Geese SE over the mist was impressive, total of 1155 SE and 23 NW
1 adult Mediterranean Gull flying south with Black-headed Gulls.

Very quiet both days at weekend for me and Andy, 2 Crossbills at Wilderswood on Saturday morning.

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Todays Vis Mig highlights or lack of them, with Andy Makin and Ken Haydock up to 10:00 -

506 Pink-footed Geese SE and 21 NW
138 Fieldfare NW and 120 south
114 Redwing SE and 68 NW
181 Chaffinch south and 135 north
4 Brambling north
30 Siskin north

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Todays Vis Mig highlights (with Andy Makin) in what was visible migration at its absolute best -

6000+ Pink-footed Geese, huge super skiens across Manchester and over us all SE, apart from 55 that went NW
1 Shelduck west over the moor, a vis mig first
3 Goosander south
7 Whooper Swans SE, right over us.
25 Fieldfare north, 8 south
42 Redwing north, 7 east
A phenomenal movement of Chaffinches, with 1358 north up to 11.30am, and only 51 south
16 Hawfinches north, on exact same flight line as the Chaffinches, 7 north at 09:11 and 9 north at 09:40.
65 Siskin north!
2 Brambling north
3 Crossbill south

Male Merlin and 3 Peregrines present.

-- Edited by Simon Warford on Thursday 2nd of November 2017 10:49:05 PM

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A further 9 Hawfinch north over Scout Road at 10:40

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7 Hawfinch north over Scout Road at 09:10 this morning.

 

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Todays Vis Mig highlights (with Andy Makin, Rick Else, Dennis Atherton, Alan Warford & Dave Sherrington) -

Affected by intermittent mist.

1 drake Goosander SW
116 Woodpigeon south
288 Redwings south or NW
28 Fieldfare SW, 14 NW
A remarkable 504 Chaffinches of which 297 went south and 204 north, some very high
46 Siskin north!
12 Brambling
15 Crossbill south and further birds heard calling in Gale Brook Plantation

1 Ring Ouzel Georges Lane (Andy).



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Reports of full sightings from this morning coming later but here is a nice shot of the 15 Crossbills that flew over this morning,

 

 I only managed to get 14 in the shot  :(



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Record shots from today of the two Hawfinch flyby from this morning



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Todays Vis Mig highlights (with Andy Makin, Rick Else, Dennis Atherton, Brian Fielding and Ian Campbell) -

2 Hawfinch north 08:15 - the memorable run of records continues, and finally we managed some photos, although mine only an average record shot compared to Dennis?
5 Tree Sparrow high north - superby photographed by Dennis
40 Pink-footed Geese NW including 2 wandering birds, also 33 SE
109 Fieldfare SW
500 Redwing south or east and 104 north
174 Chaffinch north and 94 south
2 Brambling south
407 Starling NW or SW
22 Rook south



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Delayed highlights from yesterdays (30th October) Vis Mig watching (between Andy Makin, myself, Dan Brown, John Raynor, Dennis Atherton and Brian Fielding) -

21+ Hawfinch north over Scout Road, also 16 over Georges Lane.
3 Whooper Swan south
751 Pink-footed Geese ESE
1269 Woodpigeon south
1224 Fieldfare NW
640 Redwing NW
25 Brambling
3 Crossbill south over Scout Road, and 4 along Georges Lane/Wilderswood.


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2 Hawfinch NE over Scout Road at 08:15 this morning.

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Flyby Crossbill from this morning< No luck With Hawfinch yet but I will keep trying



-- Edited by Dennis atherton on Monday 30th of October 2017 02:49:27 PM

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A further 11 Hawfinch west over Higher Meadows at 08:40.

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So far this morning over Georges Lane/Higher Meadows, a single Hawfinch SE at 07:22 and another 4 NE heading towards Burnt Edge at 07:47.

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brian fielding wrote:

Go to the end of georges Lane and turn left, then turn left at the pub, I think it's the bob smithes,  the one that had the glossy ibis a few years ago, towards the end of this road you will see a pull in next to the quarrys,  this is where the vismig spot is.

 Thanks Brian. I guess I should have asked beforehand. Maybe next year!



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Go to the end of georges Lane and turn left, then turn left at the pub, I think it's the bob smithes,  the one that had the glossy ibis a few years ago, towards the end of this road you will see a pull in next to the quarrys,  this is where the vismig spot is.



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Simon Warford wrote:

Todays Vis Mig highlights (mostly for those that remained at Scout Road for the duration; Phil Rhodes, Simon Johnson, Rick Else, Gary Crowder and Paul Cliff) up to lunchtime-

Hi,

Where is Scout Rd? I spent an almost entirely fruitless 3 and a half hours in the area this morning walking up Mast Rd and then back through the quarries. I couldn't see anything migrating anywhere apart from one small fieldfare flock. I also missed the hawfinches although I parked at Wilderswood about 7.15 a.m. I guess you have to know the area better.

Cheers,

Andy Bissitt

 

 



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Thank you. Could easily be two. Very skulky. I only found one myself at about 3.30 ish just past the Dog Kennels

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Todays Vis Mig highlights (mostly for those that remained at Scout Road for the duration; Phil Rhodes, Simon Johnson, Rick Else, Gary Crowder and Paul Cliff) up to lunchtime-

1 Hawfinch, picked up superbly by Phil, flew fast and low right past us heading north giving us 1 brief tick call, seem to drop down in Longworth Clough at 09:04.
19 Crossbills, groups of 10 and then 9 heading north as most finches were today.
2 Greylag Geese NW
1 Peregrine NW
896 Woodpigeon south
218 Fieldfare NW
155 Redwing NW
143 Chaffinch north and 33 south
5 Brambling north
16 Siskin north and 36 south

Nice Ring Ouzel photo's Dennis! I was told that 2 males were present there today (Andy Makin).

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Very Handsome Ring Ouzel  from near Georges lane today



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Along georges Lane this morning,  1 male ring ouzel and 4 crossbill over



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15 Hawfinch NW over Wilderswood just after 8am this morning.

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Todays Vis Mig highlights (with Andy Makin and 10 others - its suddenly seems to be becoming popular up here!) -

1 Swallow south
270 Pink-footed Geese SE
1729 Woodpigeon
373 Fieldfare NW
408 Redwings west or NW
15 Brambling
23 Bullfinch
17 Crossbill flew west out of Gale Brook Plantation (Phil)
66 Siskin south
33 Meadow Pipit south

2 Ring Ouzels along George's Lane (Andy). Also a second hand report of 1 Hawfinch over Georges Lane 11.15am and 10 Crossbills in Wilderswood.


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Simon Warford wrote:
Andy Bissitt wrote:

 

Simon Warford wrote:

Todays Vis Mig highlights (with Andy Makin, Phil Rhodes, Alan Warford, Rick Else and later Dave Broome) up to 12.30pm -

1 Hawfinch - superbly picked up on call by Rick Else as it flew high north right over us and then it veered and flew east towards Holcombe at 09:28.


Hi,

Which call was it please. The single 'tic' or something else? I am interested because of my own experience the other day (under 'Romiley' thread). 

Thanks,

Andy Bissitt

 

 


 



Hi Andy, it was the single high pitched Tick call, though I didn't hear it myself, so we would have missed it if it wasn't for Rick's amazing hearing. I have heard other sites have been hearing the "Tzik" call as well which you did..

Cheers, Simon

 Thanks Simon. I hope to hear another soon!



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