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Little Wooden Moss today, 12:15 to 13:30:

1 Green Sandpiper

3 Little Ringed Plover

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Hobby and another near to the George and Dragon pub in Glazebury

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

5 Little Ringed Plover

1 Ringed Plover

1st summer Hobby hawking Dragonflies then flew west at 10:50hrs

4 Yellow Wagtails

2 Corn Buntings

2 Grey Partridges  

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart



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Little Wooden Moss today, 08:30-13:00:

 

5 Little Ringed Plover

13 Oystercatcher with 11 of these in a single flock

230 Swift

9 Yellow Wagtail including a pair still feeding young in a field that was only harvested last night

1 Corn Bunting in song plus 2 adult in alarm with  2 juveniles

4 young Grey Partridge

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Little Wooden Moss today:

 

10 Little Ringed Plover

3 Ringed Plover 

10 Yellow Wagtails (Including a male Channel Wagtail paired to a female Yellow Wagtail!)

1 singing Corn Bunting 

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart 



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Little Wooden Moss today:

 

5 Little Ringed Plover

1 Yellow Wagtail

 

Croxdens:

 

1 Yellow Wagtail

2 Oystercatcher

1st summer Hobby over South (14:35hrs) 

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart



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Little Wooden Moss today, 09:45-12:15:

 

10 Little Ringed Plover

1 Ringed Plover

2 Yellow Wagtail

Female Kestrel + 3 juvs

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart

 

Whilst on Croxdens:

 

1 Curlew

2 Oystercatchers

1 Green Sandpiper

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Little Woolden Moss (14.10)

Little Ringed Plover 20 
Yellow Wagtail 4



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Little Woolden Moss today, 10:00-13:00hrs:

16 Little Ringed Plover

5 Ringed Plover

1 Common Sandpiper

1 Dunlin

1 juvenile Wheatear

1 Yellow Wagtail

1st summer Hobby  

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Little Woolden Moss mid-morning to early on today

9 Llittle Ringed Plover

1 Ringed Plover

6 Yellow Wagtail

1 Corn Bunting

1 Redshank

male Sparrowhawk

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Sightings for yesterday:

 

Little Woolden Moss:

6 Llittle Ringed Plover

1 Ringed Plover

5 Yellow Wagtail

1 Corn Bunting

1 Peregrine

1 Sparrowhawk

 

Croxdens:

1 Curlew

3 Oystercatchers

 

Barton Moss:

12 Yellow Wagtail

Pair of Grey Partridge with 1 small young

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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LLittle Woolden Moss today:

1 Ringed Plover

3 Yellow Wagtails

1 Redshank over (north) 

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Ltitle Woolden Moss this morning:

2 Ringed Plover

5 Oystercatcher

1 Singing Corn Bunting

4 Yellow Wagtail

8 Herring Gull

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Irlam Moss and Croxdens this morning:

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Curlew

1 Green Sandpiper

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Little Woolden Moss 13-16:00hrs today:

2 Ringed Plovers

3 Yellow Wagtails

1 Corn Bunting

3 Oystercatchers

1 Redshank  

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Three and a half or so hours on Little Woolden Moss from early afternoon today:

11+ willow warbler (including a ringed individual collecting insects)
1 blackcap
4 whitethroat
8+ linnet
3 reed bunting
1 yellowhammer
1 corn bunting
5+ sand martin
20+ house martin
5 swallow
5 meadow pipit
6+ pied wagtail (mainly juveniles)
5 yellow wagtail
c15 swift
1 cuckoo
3 lapwing
2 kestrel
1 buzzard

Walking through Irlam Moss, a couple of singing yellowhammer around the margins of field 25, and lapwing and stock dove in this field, too; also a single oystercatcher over and a whitethroat gathering insects on the road leading to Little Woolden Moss.

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Little Wooden Moss today, 07:45-13:00hrs:

 

2 Corn Buntings

4 Yellow Wagtails

1 Curlew

Juvenile Sedge Warbler in the car park (good bird here)

1 Redshank

 

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On Little Wooden Moss today:

 

2 Curlews

5 Yellow Wagtails

2 Oystercatchers

2 Corn Buntings

 

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Quail calling from the NE edge of field 52 on Chat Moss around midday today.

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Highlights from this morning on Little Wooden Moss:

2 Curlew

Hobby

 

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Little Wooden Moss today, 10-13:30:

 

6 Yellow Wagtails

1 singing Corn Bunting

 

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A Tawny Owl called from Black Wood on Barton Moss last night

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Little Wooden Moss today:

 

1 Sedge Warbler

15 Yellow Wagtail including juveniles

3 Curlew

2 Corn Bunting in song

5 Oystercatcher

1 Ringed Plover

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart

 

 

 



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Little Wooden Moss today, 09:30-13:00:

 

First summer Hobby through north at 10:40

2 Ringed Plovers

3 Curlews

2 Oystercatchers

5 Yellow Wagtails

17 juvenile Pied wagtails 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart

 

Viewed from a pub lunch adjacent to Little Wooden Moss this afternoon, 1 Hobby disturbing Swallows.

 

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Little Woolden Moss 16.00-17.00

3 Ringed Plover
1 Corn Bunting singing
1 Sedgw Warbler
2 Buzzard
1 Kestrel
4 Meadow Pipit
6 Linnet
1 Curlew
2 Blackcap singing
1 Willow Warbler
1 Chiffchaff
Numerous Pied Wagtail young feeding on the mud
c15 Lesser Black-backed Gull
3 House Martin
Numerous Swifts


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Ltitle Woolden Moss today:

4 Ringed Plovers

3 Curlews

1 Corn Bunting

3 Oystercatchers

2 Redshanks

2 pairs of Yellow Wagtails both feeding young Dave

1 Dunlin still

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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0945-1430...Croxden 4 Oystercatcher..1 Yellow Wagtail...2 adult Mediterranean Gulls which after preening  flew North..LWM...2 Curlew 

 

Little Wooden Moss today, 09:45-11:45:

 

3 Ringed Plover

1 Dunlin

2 Corn Bunting

2 Yellow Wagtail

2 Curlew.

 

On Croxdens:

 

 

4 Oystercatcher

1 Curlew 

1 Yellow Wagtail

2 adult Mediterranean Gulls which after preening flew off NW

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart



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Today's sightings:

 

Pair of Yellow Wagtail on Barton Moss.

 

2 Ringed Plover, 4 Curlew, 1 adult Mediterranean Gull catching Dragonflies and a single Hobby on Little Wooden Moss.

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Little Woolden Moss today:

5 Oystercatchers

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Redshank

3 Curlews

Second calendar year Peregrine briefly on the peat  

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Little Wooden Moss, 07:15-09:45 today:

 

4 Redshank

4 Curlew

6 Yellow Wagtail

4 Oystercatcher

2 Grey Partridge

 

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Little Wooden Moss today, 10:00-12:45:

 

1 Ringed Plover

1 Corn Bunting

1 Yellow Wagtail

4 Curlews

2 Redshanks

2 Oystercatchers over north east

 

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On Little Wooden Moss this morning:

3 Curlew

1 Hobby

3 Yellow Wagtail

 

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On Little Wooden Moss today:

 

3 Ringed Plovers

1 Wheatear

 

On Irlam Moss:

 

4 Yellow Wagtail

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Further sightings from today on Little Wooden Moss include a Cuckoo whilst Chat/Barton Mosses include 3 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, 1 Yellow Wagtail and 46 Stock Dove.

Info thanks to Dave Steel 

 



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Single Ringed Plover on Little Woolden Moss this early afternoon.



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Little Wooden Mosses' sightings today:

 

1 Cuckoo

2 Corn Bunting in song.

2 Curlew

4 Yellow Wagtail

Quail called once from field number 56

 

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Little Woolden Moss in a brief visit 12:00-13:45 today:

2 Corn Bunting in song

1 Cuckoo

6 Yellow Wagtail

1 Oystercatcher

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Quail calling from field number 56 at Little Woolden Moss at 08:45 this morning; heard from reserve north path near gate.

Info thanks to Dave Steel

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Little Wooden Moss today, 10-12:00:

 

1 Ringed Plover

2 Oystercatchers

1 Cuckoo

2 Yellow Wagtails

1st summer Hobby 

 

Croxdens this afternoon, 12:15-13:30:

 

1 Curlew 

2 Oystercatchers

1 Snipe 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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Little Wooden Moss today, 10-13:30:

 

5 Yellow Wagtails

3 Curlews

2 Oystercatchers

1 Cuckoo

1 Corn Bunting

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel 



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Chat Moss today, 07:45-12:15:

2 Oystercatcher

2 Curlew

1 Snipe

1 Sedge Warbler in song

1 Garden Warbler in song

27 Swift

1 Yellow Wagtail

 

Ltitle Woolden Moss today:

2 Ringed Plovers

4 Yellow Wagtails

2 Oystercatchers

1 singing Corn Bunting

Cuckoo calling

1 Dunlin

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Little Wooden Moss today, 07:30-14:00:

 

1 Ringed Plover

4 Curlew

3 Oystercatcher

10 Yellow Wagtail

2 Corn Bunting 1 in song and both fighting at one point

1 Cuckoo calling

 

Also, another Cuckoo was heard over Bedford Moss

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Sunday 28th May 2017: 12:30 - 15:30 hrs. Little cooler today and more pleasant for walking and bird watching.

From Rindle Cottages / Rindle Wood - across Railway Line - along Astley Road as far as Twelve Yards Road - Little Woolden Moss and return

Grey Partridge x 1 Female Adult (with four chicks seen)
Corn Bunting x 1
Linnet x 4
Ringed Plover x 1
Willow Warbler x 5
Chiffchaff x 1
Whitethroat x 1
Buzzard x 1
Reed Bunting x 3
Curlew x 2
Lapwing x 25
Oystercatcher x 1
Goldfinch x 5
Swift x 4
House Martin x 10
Swallow x 5
Carrion Crow x 40
Chaffinch x 10
Pied Wagtail x 3
Blackbird x 5
Skylark x 2
Black-Headed Gull x 1
Mallard x 2
Canada Geese x 7
Woodpigeon x 10





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Highlights from yesterday on Little Wooden Moss:

1 Peregrine

1 Yellow  Wagtail

1 singing Corn Bunting

2 Oystercatchers

1 Cuckoo

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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Sightings from today:

 

1 Dunlin

4 Yellow Wagtails (3 males)

3 Curlews

2 Oystercatchers

1 Wheatear

Pair of Peregrines

 

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Little Wooden Moss today, 9:45-12:45:

 

2 Ringed Plovers

1 Dunlin

2 Oystercatchers

4 Yellow Wagtails

1 Hobby

1 singing Corn Bunting (north path)

1 Cuckoo

1 Grey Partridge

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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Birds from today at Little Wooden Moss included:

 

2 Dunlins

3 Oystercatchers

2 Curlews

4 Yellow Wagtails

4 Redshanks

1 Sparrowhawk

1 Gadwall

 

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Only highlights from this afternoon on Little Wooden Moss:

1 Cuckoo

1 Yellow Wagtail

3 Oystercatcher



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Day spent around here today; usual route around Irlam Moss and then onto Little Woolden. Highlights:

2 goldcrest
6 chiffchaff
3 willow warbler
4 blackcap
14 whitethroat
1 willow tit heard
Goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinch
1 linnet
2 reed bunting
6 yellowhammer
15+ house martin
c30 swallow
15+ skylark
2 song thrush
14 mistle thrush
c10 swift
30+ stock dove
80+ lapwing, with a couple of chicks
2 oystercatcher
1 curlew
2 - 4 kestrel
3+ buzzard
Fledgling robin and great tit, amongst the usuals.

Little Woolden Moss:

12+ willow warbler
2 blackcap
2 whitethroat
8+ linnet
3+ reed bunting, one carrying insects
5+ meadow pipit, one carrying insects
2 pied wagtail
5+ yellow wagtail
2 skylark
10+ stock dove feeding in an adjacent field
1 ringed plover
20+ lapwing, mainly in adjacent fields
1 redshank
1 oystercatcher, landing in a nearby field
2 curlew
1 buzzard

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This afternoon on Little Wooden Moss:

 

3 Ringed Plovers

2 Redshanks

2 Curlews

1 Oystercatcher

 

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Late afternoon on Little Woolden Moss today:

3 Ringed Plover

Whilst earlier in the day (thanks to Dave Stewart):

Peregrine

2 Yellow Wagtail



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