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Chat Moss this morning:

 

7 Snipe

37 Stock Dove

1 Peregrine

1 Woodcock

2 Grey Partridge

2 Willow Tit

1 calling Tawny Owl 

 

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

2 Peregrine

1 Raven

9 Snipe

17 Fieldfare over east

Pair of Stonechat

55 Stock Dove

72 Lapwing

c280 Starling

1 Pink-footed goose

200 Chaffinch

4 Tree Sparrow

4 Golden Plover

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart



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Barton Moss this morning:

 

700 Jackdaw over southwest

300 Woodpigeon south

30 Skylark

63 Redwing

27 Fieldfare

34 Linnet

57 Reed Bunting

115 Starling

2 Grey Partridge

2 Kestrel

75 Chaffinch

 

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An hour this morning at Astley Moss: 2 yellowhammer, multiple chaffinches, blue and great tits in Rindle Road track 2 grey partridge in stubble field to left of Rindle Hedge 1 male brambling in a flock of 100+ chaffinches feeding in field on left hand side of road to railway line near muck heap, really worth checking out the flick as I'm pretty sure there will be more brambling 1 kestrel 1 wren 1 buzzard

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Croxdens & Barton Moss today:

 

300 Chaffinch

60 Goldfinch

5 Snipe

c2000 Woodpigeon

1 Woodcock

c500 Jackdaw

1 Peregrine 

 

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Rindle road area 9.15-10.45

50+ mixed flock finch (mainly Chaffinch)

yellowhammerx4

Redwing

Treecreeper

Usual tits

Pheasants in good numbers

Grey partridgex4

Loads of different Crow flocks

Single Wren

Robinx4

Kestrelx3 

Buzzardx3

A Harrier type bird seen briefly over the SSSI.

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2 Willow Tits New Moss Wood, Cadishead

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Barton Moss today:

 

c400 Chaffinch

7 Brambling between field 45 & Barton Moss Farm

45 Reed Bunting

500 Jackdaw

1500 Woodpigeon

1 Merlin (field45) 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart.



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Monday, 5th February 2018 10:15 - 16:30 hrs.

Chat Moss:
Merlin x 1 (in Field 59) See long distance photo attached and thanks to Ian Mc for identification.
Buzzard x 1
Kestrel x 1
Redwing x 10
Yellowhammer x 1
Reed Bunting x 5
Jackdaw x 300
Carrion Crow x 75
Chaffinch x 40
Pied Wagtail x 1
Cormorant x 1

Astley Moss:
Raven x 2
Meadow Pipit x 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker x 2
Pied Wagtail x 1
Jay x 1
Chaffinch x 50
Dunnock x 2
Long Tailed Tit x 3

Cadishead Moss:
Buzzard x 1
Kestrel x 2
Redwing x 10
Greenfinch x 5
House Sparrow x 10
Goldfinch x 4
Long Tailed Tit x 3
Lapwing x 20
Jay x 3
Blue Tit x 5
Robin x 7
Blackbird x 5
Chaffinch x 25
Woodpigeon x 40
Magpie x 9

Great Woolden Moss
Starling x 50
Buzzard x 1
Robin x 2
Chaffinch x 10
Blue Tit x 3
Great Tit x 2

Little Woolden Moss:
Nothing to report other than fly over by four Carrion Crow!

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Little Woolden Moss and area today:

9 Snipe

1 Raven

2 Peregrine

115 Pink-footed Geese 

 

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Todays results from the Winter Farmland Bird Survey at Worsley Moss SJ7198

Blackbird 4
Bullfinch 2
Black-headed gull 40
Blue tit 5
Carrion crow 2
Collared dove 1
Chaffinch 8
Coal tit 1
Dunnock 1
Fieldfare 296
Feral pigeon 2
Grey wagtail 2
Goldcrest 1
Goldfinch 9
Greenfinch 2
Great tit 2
House sparrow 10
Jay 2
Jackdaw 10
Kestrel 1
Lesser redpoll 1
Long-tailed tit 6
Mallard 7
Magpie 3
Meadow pipit 8
Grey partridge 2
Pheasant 5
Pied wagtail 1
Robin 6
Reed bunting 2
Redwing 56
Skylark 1
Starling 50
Song thrush 2
Teal 7
Woodcock 1
Woodpigeon 10
Wren 3
Willow tit 2
Yellowhammer 4

Also 300 Lapwings and 11 Yellowhammers at Moss House Farm


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Astley Moss, Rindle Rd 8.30 - 10.15am

Large Chaffinch flock along Rindle hedge feeding in the set aside strip and stubble field in amongst 4 Brambling 3m, 1f, 3 Yellowhammer 2m, 1f, I initially estimated 200/300 birds as they constantly lifted from the field and flew into the hedge, However after about 20 mins of watching this constant toing and froing the gamekeeper arrived on a small off road vehicle and put up the complete flock all in the air together well over 500 birds.

Also noted
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2
Raven
Grey Partridge 13
Meadow Pipit
House Sparrow


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Astley Moss Rindle Rd area 10.30 - 11.00am

Large Chaffinch flock c300 birds feeding on the ground in the corner of field 67 in front of the barn, Very flighty never on the ground for more than 30/40 seconds at a time, Flying too and from the trees at the side of the barn, Managed to find 1 male Brambling in amongst with several Goldfinch and Reed Bunting.

Also 6 Grey Partridge

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Friday, 2nd January 2018 13:00 - 15:30 hrs. Dry, Sunny and Cool. Great to visit two new mosses that I have not walked before.

Cadishead Moss:
Goldcrest x 3
Song Thrush x 1
Mistle Thrush x 4
Redwing x 1
House Sparrow x 3
Wren x 5
Kestrel x 2
Buzzard x 1
Long-Tailed Tit x 5
Blackbird x 4
Robin x 3
Blue Tit x 2
Great Tit x 1
Carrion Crow x 2
Magpie x 7

Great Woolden Moss:
Pink Footed Geese x 300 (in flight in the distance to west of Little Woolden Moss)
Great Spotted Woodpecker x 1
Buzzard x 2
Kestrel x 1
Sparrowhawk x 1
Starling x 20
Dunnock x 2
Long Tailed Tit x 5
Blue Tit x 1
Great Tit x 2
Chaffinch x 3
Robin x 4
Mistle Thrush x 3
Blackbird x 5



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Little Woolden Moss and Little Woolden Hall area today:

 

290 Lapwing

570 Pink-footed Geese

27 Stock Dove

 

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Barton Moss today:

 

95 Redwing

7 Fieldfare

76 Reed Bunting

c180 Chaffinch

88 Starling

Pair Stonechats

 

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Chat Moss this morning:

 

35 Reed Bunting

600 Chaffinch

85 Redwing

64 Fieldfare

7 Brambling

12 Grey Partridge

3 Tree Sparrow

4 Snipe

1 Peregrine

 

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This afternoon:

500 Jackdaw, 2 Raven and 14 Rook off Moss Lane, Astley Moss (the latter usually scarce here)

60 Redwing, 2 Treecreeper and 2 Nuthatch in Rindle Wood

Two big Chaffinch flocks with 580 moving between Rindle Wood and the stubble field immediately behind it and 380 in the set-a-side corner of field 68 on Astley Moss

At least 4 Brambling (including 2 cracking males) in the Rindle Wood Chaffinch flock and another minimum of 6 in the field 68 flock but probably more in each such is the difficulty in working through the flocks

48 Stock Dove in field 68 Astley Moss

570 Jackdaw and 1800 Woodpigeon on field 62 Chat Moss

142 Lapwing on Croxdens



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Monday, 29th January 2018. 13:00 - 16:30 hrs. Sunny, cold and windy.

Barton Moss:
Fieldfare x 4
Redwing x 20
Mistle Thrush x 10
Kestrel x 4 sightings
Jackdaw x 300
Pied Wagtail x 1
Lapwing x 8
Reed Bunting x 3
Chaffinch x 10
Robin x 5
Blue Tit x 4
Great Tit x 2
Blackbird x 2
Woodpigeon x 50
Magpie x 8
Black-Headed Gull x 50

Chat Moss:
Yellowhammer x 9
Greenfinch x 1
Kestrel x 1
Buzzard x 5 sightings (at least 2 different birds)
Brambling x 1
Chaffinch x 250
Redwing x 30
Starling x 50
Woodpigeon x 40
Goldfinch x 2
Lapwing x 1
Pied Wagtail x 2
Blackbird x 3
Pheasant x 10



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Little Woolden Moss 08:45-13:45 today:

 

1 Woodcock

1 Curlew

550 Pink-footed Geese

4 Brambling

240 Chaffinch

1 Lesser Redpoll

5 Grey Partridge

39 Stock Dove

1 Nuthatch

200 Lapwing

8 Snipe

7 Tree Sparrow

 

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

190 Lapwing

c500 Pink-footed Geese

1000 Woodpigeon over 

45 Stock Dove

120 Mallard and 37 Teal (on the Glaze)

190 Starling

15 Fieldfare

1 Peregrine

15 Skylark

 

Chat Moss:

 

1 Shelduck

1000 Jackdaw

10 Grey Partridge

5 Snipe

 

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09.15 - 12.00 Irlam Moss with Nick Hilton

Highlights:
1 Peregrine
1 Stonechat (m)
5 Grey Partridge
c.400 Chaffinch (f17)
8 Brambling (f17)
3 Greenfinch
2 Bullfinch- pair
14 Lapwing
c.10 Yellowhammer
2 Skylark
c.20 Meadow Pipit
c.30 Fieldfare
2 Redwing
1 Buzzard
c.300 Woodpigeon
1 Stock Dove
2 Mallard

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Little Woolden Moss today, 15:00-16:30:

 

370 Lapwing

c500 Pink footed Geese

 

Irlam Moss this afternoon:

 

200 Linnet

6 Grey Partridge

 

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9 Snipe flew in to Little Woolden Moss late afternoon and 2 Greylag Geese flew north

On Irlam Moss, c120 Linnet, 25 Chaffinch and 1 Brambling in field 25

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

70 Skylark (field 56)

600 Jackdaw

2000 Woodpigeon

370 Lapwing

200 Starling

5 Buzzards

31 Fieldfare

190 Pink-footed Geese over south-east to west at 11:55

 

Chat Moss this morning:

 

950 Jackdaw

2 Stonechat

8 Grey Partridge

250 Chaffinch

6 Snipe

55 Fieldfare

 

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Barton Moss this morning:

 

3 Stonechat

6 Snipe

50 Linnet

49 Reed Bunting

2 Brambling

1 Raven

12 Lesser Redpoll

16 Grey Partridge

32 Redwing

 

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Chat Moss this morning:

 

2 Woodcock

5 Snipe

2 Stonechat

1 Raven

5 Brambling

26 Fieldfare

6 Tree Sparrow

45 Lapwing

2500 Woodpigeon

750 Jackdaw

2 Willow Tit

2 Peregrine

 

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Sightings from today:

 

Croxdens:

 

1 Peregrine

4 Snipe

 

Barton Moss:

 

400 Chaffinch

1000 Woodpigeon

700 Jackdaw

70 Reed Bunting

50 Goldfinch

3 Snipe

2 Stonechat (field 48)

9 Tree Sparrow

10 Brambling

22 Yellowhammer

19 Fieldfare

 

Chat Moss:

 

260 Chaffinch (field 52)

25 Lapwing

1 Raven

 

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Little Woolden Moss and the Glaze this morning:

 

250 Pink-footed Geese

115 Mallard

48 Reed Bunting

4 Grey Partridge

500 Starling

16 Tree Sparrow

30 Redwing

110 Fieldfare

2 Golden Plover

220 Skylark

3 Corn Bunting

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel 



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This morning's sightings included flocks of Linnet and Redwing, plus a single snipe flushed from a ditch at the Nature Reserve. Conditions were appeal.

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

21 Linnet

10 Meadow Pipit

8 Pied Wagtail

Stonechat (female along North Path)

 

Barton Moss:

 

c200 Chaffinch

47 Redwing

2 Song Thrush

 

Chat Moss:

 

4 Snipe

2500 Woodpigeon

600 Jackdaw

1 Woodcock

12 Brambling

200 Goldfinch

3 Tree Sparrow

1100 Chaffinch

 

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Other sightings from Little Woolden Moss today included:

 

118 Pink-footed Geese milling around fields 19/63

 

Platt House Farm:

 

8 Tree Sparrow

18 House Sparrow

54 Collard Dove

70 Skylark

120 Starling

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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Here today; usual route, up Astley Road from Irlam, over motorway, across to Cutnook Lane, then Twelve Yard Road to Little Woolden Moss.

Irlam Moss:

2 goldcrest
2 willow tit
10+ house sparrow
60+ goldfinch
75+ linnet (flock of c65 feeding in f25)
40+ chaffinch
1+ brambling (in with flighty chaffinch flock in f25; surely more, but I could only pick out one each time they moved)
1 bullfinch
11+ reed bunting
3 yellowhammer
1 meadow pipit
50+ redwing
1 song thrush
60+ fieldfare (with redwing feeding in paddocks of riding school on Cutnook Lane)
2 jay
200+ jackdaw in flock off Raspberry Lane (or whatever that track's called)
13 stock dove
500+ woodpigeon
6 grey partridge
c50 pink-footed geese fairly distantly, dropping down into field n of Little Woolden Moss
6 lapwing
11 herring gull
1 kestrel
2 buzzard

Little Woolden Moss:

1 treecreeper
6 linnet
1 reed bunting heard
1 song thrush
550+ pink-footed geese; 250+ over heading sw, then hour later 300+ arriving from sw, circled over area to n, split into two groups with half heading s, low and noisy right over my head; cracking.
1 snipe
1 kestrel
1 buzzard

A thoroughly enjoyable day around here for me, too.


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Sunday 14th Jan.

With Ian Lyth.

AM. Walk from Moss Farm Fisheries, Cutnook Lane to Little Woolden Moss. Very quiet.

Buzzard.
Grey Wagtail over.
Odd Chaffinch & Bullfinch in the hedge plus 3 Yellowhammer together (2M 1F).
Massive flock of Woodpigeon in field No 15/16.
Redwing.
Small party of Long-tailed Tit (20).
Reed Bunting was the only bird seen on Little Woolden Moss.

PM. Rindle Road.

Kestrel.
Jay.
Grey Partridge.
Heron.
Cormorant over.
Willow Tit in with tit flock feeding in two ivy covered trees on opposite side of road to cottages.
Fieldfare, Redwing and Song Thrush in feeding track hedge.
The track that runs off right to the feeding track had a large mixed flock of Chaffinch and Redwing .. Ian managed to pick out a female Brambling.
Great spotted Woodpecker.
Pair of Raven over .. grunting to each other.

A Kingfisher flew down the ditch on opposite side of the road to the entrance to feeding track.

Checked the midden .. nothing, not even the dead rat ... probably a good job as by this time I was in the mood to have ate it !!

An enjoyable winters day birding.

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

1 Peregrine

275 Lapwing over west

c4500 Woodpigeon

1 male Stonechat

437 Pink-footed Geese all settled in field 20

 

Barton and Irlam Moss:

 

4 Brambling

110 Linnet

125 Chaffinch

67 Reed Bunting

6 Grey Partridge

2 Tree sparrow

52 Fieldfare

32 Skylark

29 Redwing

3. Snipe

120 Pink-footed Geese over

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Thursday, 11th January 2018

No sign of Water Pipit on the "manure heap" when I left at 12:30 hrs. today.

Birds seen included Meadow Pipits, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Bullfinch, Long-Tailed Tits, Chaffinch, Grey Partridge and Pheasant.

Nice to have chat with Dave Stewart, Paul Richardson and Dave Shallcross. Dave was still there when I left.

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A quick look at "The Manure Heap" this morning produced only 2 Meadow Pipits,6 or 7 Chaffinch and a large dead Rat.

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Nice to meet you John,

Your description is spot on, when I left the site I was about 95% Water Pipit, when home and having checked all my reference to this species I was then certain, so I posted the sighting, hopefully someone else will pick them up today and confIrm.

Best regards Brian.



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Well, I'm not often called a gentleman ! Nice to meet you, Brian & Geoff

The 2 Water Pipits favoured the top left of the pile of poo, along with a few Meadow Pipits, Pied Wagtails & a Grey Wagtail. All birds can disappear for some time, sometimes behind the pile

I'll attempt a description from memory of what I saw, rather than what Brian/Geoff showed me on his pad for several pipit species

Clearly slightly larger than the Meadow Pipits, legs much longer above & below the heel, the gait obviously more striding than shuffling. Legs moderately pink, one bird's a legs little duller than the other's. Some aggression between these 2 birds & the Meadow Pipits, but not between the Meadow Pipits

Head: white throat bordered by fine black stripe, itself bordered by white line. Pale supercilium, not as pronounced as on some Water Pipits, but more defined than on the accompanying Meadow Pipits. Back brown, slightly different shade to Meadow Pipits, weak double wing-bar. Tail brown with white outer feathers, considerably more prominent than on the Meadow Pipits. Underside obvious white (not fawn), with bold streaky flanks & streaky band across breast up to white throat

Having said all that & emphasising the differences, it did take some effort to be sure this wasn't just an odd Meadow Pipit, esp at this time of year when everything changes subtly with moult. But, the number of distinct features clinches it for me (and I think for the other gentlemen)

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Wednesday, 10th January 2018 10:45 - 15:30 hrs.

Irlam Moss:
300 x Pink Footed Goose (approximately) in Field 20
Brambling x 1
Bullfinch x 3
Goldcrest x 1
Redwing x 7
Mistle Thrush x 3
Nuthatch x 1
Chaffinch x 70
Kestrel x 1
Carrion Crow x 2
Woodpigeon x 40
Pied Wagtail x 1
Blue Tit x 5
Great Tit x 4
Robin x 3
Blackbird x 7

Astley Moss:
Yellowhammer x 5
Pied Wagtail x 3
Chaffinch x 25
Reed Bunting x 3
Buzzard x 1
Wren x 1
Woodpigeon x 50

Chat Moss:
Tree Sparrow x 3
Yellowhammer x 7
Reed Bunting x 5
Buzzard x 1
Kestrel x 1
Lapwing x 5
Black-Headed Gull x 40
Chaffinch x 50
Starling x 35



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Today 10/1/2018 between 1100/1230 hrs mist had lifted calm 8 degrees.

For the time span above we watched two Water Pipit feeding on insects coming off a horse manure heap adjacent to the railway line at Rindle road, the field number is 67.

There were three observers, myself, Geoff M (Rossendale) and a gentleman from Culcheth.

Regards Brian.



-- Edited by brian kirkwood on Wednesday 10th of January 2018 02:50:35 PM



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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

3 Snipe

3 Kestrel

12 Great black backed Gull

7 Herring Gull

 

Barton Moss (field 45):

 

c400 strong finch flock included 300+ Chaffinch, 75 Goldfinch, 3 Brambling, 10 Reed Bunting, 4 Tree Sparrow

25 Magpie

4,000 Woodpigeon in 2 flocks

 

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Chat and Little Woolden Mosses this morning:

 

3 Stonechat

23 Tree Sparrow

38 Stock Dove

5 Brambling

3 Snipe

26 Great Black-Backed Gull

430 Chaffinch

4500 Woodpigeon

7 Grey Partridge

34 Reed Bunting

90 Pink-footed Geese flying NW at 09:50

 

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Irlam Moss 16.20-16.50

c.200 Pink-footed Geese flying round in fading light over Little Woolden Moss this afternoon before settling down.
A small flock (approx 15) of what appeared to be Golden Plover took off from f52 and seemed to land near Hepzibah Farm. But a later search of that area proved fruitless but very little light by then.
3 Buzzard
2 Kestrel

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Irlam and Chat Moss this morning:

 

230 Chaffinch

4 Brambling

1500 Woodpigeon

65 Redwing

41 Fieldfare

7 Yellowhammer

24 Skylark

350 Jackdaw.

2 Tree Sparrow

60  Pink-footed Geese flying east at 08:35

 

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Little Woolden Moss 10:00-14:00 today:

 

197 Pink-footed Geese over west (11:20)

10 Great Black-backed Gulls on the peat

 

Platt House Farm:

 

3 Tree Sparrow

20+ House Sparrow

 

Moss Road (field 66b):

 

19 Fieldfare

3 Redwing

c50 Linnet

35 Meadow Pipit

8 Pied Wagtail

120 Starling 

 

Chat Moss early evening:

 

1 Merlin

4 Snipe

220 Pink-footed Geese  milling about the air at dusk

4 Grey partridge

 

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Little Woolden Moss this morning:

 

350 Pink-footed Geese

2 Woodcock

5 Great Black-backed Gull

6 Snipe

2000 Woodpigeon

1 Peregrine

 

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Plenty of activity north of the railway this morning as follows:

Peregrine hunting Woodpigeons along Moss Lane

4400 Woodpigeon in the area, with 2600 around Moss Lane and Astley Moss and a further 1800 over Chat Moss

400 Starling feeding in the last field by the level crossing at Rindle but many more flying in all the time

1260 Chaffinch in one flock around the Rindle area! Large numbers in trees along the old mineral line east of Rindle Road flew across to Rindle Hedge by Rindle Wood, joining a huge flock already there. These birds then flew into the fields just behind Rindle Wood to join others feeding in all three stubble fields and resting in the trees lining them but were far too difficult to count as they were very mobile to and from the trees to the fields. Eventually they all flew, in smaller flocks or long straggling lines back east over towards the big hedge where they could be more easily counted accurately, with most continuing back across Rindle Road to then fields just east of it.

16 Brambling in with the Chaffinch flocks but there will undoubtably be many more as they were almost impossible to pick out most of the time

16 Tree Sparrow

38 Yellowhammer

2 Willow Tit in Rindle Wood

 



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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

1 Peregrine

1 Raven

5 Snipe

58 Skylarks

14 Reed Bunting

1 Lesser Redpoll

 

Moss Road:

 

28 Fieldfare

7 Redwing

5 Bullfinch

c450 Pink-footed Geese close to little Woolden Hall

 

Irlam Moss:

 

3 Snipe

47 Fieldfare

 

Info thank to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Irlam Moss 09.45-12.15

1 Stonechat f51
1 Grey Wagtail f24
c120+ Chaffinch f17
3 Yellowhammer f17

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