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170125

Irlam Moss

750 Starling

90 Redwing

12 Fieldfare

120 Jackdaw

23 Magpie

Chat Moss

1 Hooded Crow

22 Carrion Crow

14 Mallard

1 Goldcrest

40 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East

Astley Moss

7 Great Black-Backed Gull

3 Herring Gull

1 Grey Wagtail

15 Stock Dove

6 Redwing



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Very quiet afternoon stroll Astley Road round to Cutnook Lane in perpetual twilight. Absolute absence of pied wagtails the length of Astley Road. Male stonechat in horse paddocks immediately North of the motorway. Flock of 104 pink-footed geese in the field immediately to the North of Twelve Yards Road, presumably the same birds flying East later on. The hooded crow would have been showing well on the open peat but for the murk and mist so it looked like a disembodied head drifting round the bits of sedge.

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160125

Irlam Moss

1 Water Rail

21 Magpie

Astley Moss

5 Great Black-Backed Gull

150 Mallard

75 Teal

20 House Sparrow

15 Chaffinch

1 Sparrowhawk

2 Grey Partridge



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150125

Irlam Moss

26 Mallard

12 Skylark

3 Shoveler

5 Meadow Pipit

7 Rook

7 Lapwing

95 Fieldfare

5 Redwing

200 Starling

 



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A flock of at least 800 Jackdaws in one field down Moss Lane,Astley ,late afternoon. Also about 10 Red Legged Partridge (almost certainly released birds for shooting)

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Saturday 18th January 2025 Hooded Crow showing well in field 65 on Chat Moss at 11:30 hrs. I walked about 150 metres along north - south path down middle of old Croxden Peat Fields and had great views of Hooded Crow on left hand side.

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160125 am

 

Hooded Crow still on Croxden (FN65) this morning...view easily from the South-North Right of way...



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140125

Chat Moss

5 Great Black Backed Gull

63 Redwing

2 Snipe

1 Buzzard

Barton Moss

44 Redwing

2 Song Thrush

Irlam Moss

11 Lapwing

350 Starling

55 Redwing



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130125

Irlam Moss

1500 Starling

13 Lapwing

240 Black-Headed Gull

80 Redwing

8 Rook

130 Jackdaw

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Raven

1 Golden Plover---Flying South @ Noon

 



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120125...Moss Tracks still Icy and Moss itself still gripped in a wintry shroud

Chat Moss

1 Yellowhammer

2 Reed Bunting

1 Great Black-Backed Gull

6 Rook

2 Bullfinch

3 Song Thrush

3 Redwing



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070125 

Barton Moss

11 Blackbird

1 Stonechat

3 Redwing

Chat Moss

7 Great Black-Backed Gull....some feeding on a dead Sheep

2 Raven....these later came in to join the GBBG in eating the Dead Sheep

750 Jackdaw

170 Chaffinch

30 Redwing

7 Fieldfare

5 Skylark



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060125

Irlam Moss

600 Starling

36 Fieldfare

14 Redwing

5 Great Black-Backed Gull

1 Herring Gull

44 Lapwing

Chat Moss

4 Reed Bunting

1 Yellowhammer

5 Stock Dove

200 Redwing

1 Stonechat

1 Marsh Harrier...Chased by a Carrion Crow

Little Woolden Moss

700 Pink-Footed Geese

 

 



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040125

Little Woolden Moss

900 Pink-Footed Geese

1 Yellowhammer

500 Linnet

120 Chaffinch

1 Brambling

190 Redwing

45 Fieldfare

80 Starling

1 Stonechat



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Hooded Crow again with Carrion Crows on Croxden this morning.

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030125

Irlam Moss

13 Lapwing

68 Fieldfare

143 Redwing

600 Starling

14 Meadow Pipit

Chat Moss

21 Chaffinch 

4 Snipe

1 Raven

1 Marsh Harrier

2 Stonechat

4 Stock Dove

3 Reed Bunting

 



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020125

New Moss Wood

2 Treecreeper

11 Wren

10 Robin

1 Chiffchaff

4 Bullfinch

2 Coal Tit

1 Goldcrest

Great Woolden Hall/Glaze

3 Mistle Thrush...1 in song

170 Canada Geese

600 Lapwing flying over

22 Teal

5 Fieldfare

23 House Sparrow

Cadishead Moss

7 Grey Partridge

 



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Afternoon visit

Little Woolden Moss NR

2 Buzzards, including a huge (Probable female)Light Phase bird.

2 Kestrels.

A flock of 30 Fieldfares(Resting in birch woodland along the Southern boundary).

1 Marsh Harrier(Flew in from the Glazebrook direction as I was leaving and the light was fading fast).

A group of 160 Canada Geese amongst the sheep in a field on the Cheshire side of the River Glaze.



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C1000 Pink Footed Geese circled over Little Wooldon Moss and Irlam Moss then came west and landed west of LWM and slightly east of Holcroft Lane at 12pm 



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Hooded Crow still on Croxden at about 12:45 with lots of other crows - not always easy to see simply because the "bumpy" terrain gets in the way

Fieldfares and Redwings in various fields

Marsh Harrier briefly seen at the reserve - against the light so couldn't tell the sex

Pink-footed Geese - flock of somewhere between 500-1000 (rough estimate) between the Glaze and the Culcheth Road - sort of up the hill from the "normal" flock of Canada Geese



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Irlam Moss

6 Snipe

3 Song Thrush

9 Blackbird

36 Fieldfare

60 Redwing

148 Lapwing

1050 Starling

365 Black-Headed Gull

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

28 Pink-Footed Geese

Chat Moss 

40 Starling

 



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The Hooded Crow on Croxden again early afternoon today.

Yesterday: A good sized flock of large gulls on the flooded peat after the heavy overnight rain contained 46 Great Black-backed Gulls, 80+ Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 11 Herring Gulls late afternoon before all flying off to roost elsewhere.

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Little Woolden Moss...including the Glaze

61 Mallard

14 Teal

12 Great Black Backed Gull

22 Wigeon

38 Fieldfare

170 Chaffinch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

800 Pink-Footed Geese

1 Marsh Harrier



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301224

Chat Moss

1 Peregrine

15 Linnet

18 Chaffinch

6 Snipe

1 Chiffchaff

4 Teal

Irlam Moss

900 Starling

26 Fieldfare

12 Redwing

18 Meadow Pipit.



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Hooded Crow still on Croxden at midday but nearer to the railway

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Hooded Crow mid-morning foraging the former Croxdens peat works and occasionally flying in to adjacent copse, viewed from end of track running NNW from Twelve Yards Road, with c30 Carrion Crow, 8 Rook and Jackdaws.
1 Peregrine circling the area
52 Fieldfare & 3 Redwing feeding along Cutnook Lane in field 2, plus c115 Starling around fields 2&3

-- Edited by dave broome on Monday 30th of December 2024 01:00:44 PM

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Lunchtime: Hooded crow showing distantly with carrion crows on Croxden's. Female white wagtail with pied wagtails and grey wagtail on dung heap North of Twelve Yards Road.

 

[I missed the original autocorrect-imposed location error when I posted as I was just being run into by a couple of roe deer.]



-- Edited by Steven Heywood on Monday 30th of December 2024 06:40:59 PM

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251224

Little Woolden Moss

230 Pink-Footed Geese

500 Linnet

25 Chaffinch

38 Redwing

 

 



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241224

Irlam Moss

2 Song Thrush in song

5 Meadow Pipit

Chat Moss

7 Snipe

1 Little Egret

3 Teal

110 Lapwing Flying over

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Peregrine hunting Jackdaw

 



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The Hooded Crow still on Croxden this afternoon.

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The Hooded Crow still on Croxdens by the flooded area(thanks to Steve Nelson for pointing out the area) associating loosely with about a dozen Common Crows . Elsewhere on the moss still 100s of Chaffinch and Linnet down Moss Lane on the flax that the farmer has planted. A few Greenfinch also and a single female Brambling with them. Plenty of Redwing in adjacent fields,500 + Woodpigeon and a few Black Headed Gulls and on the River Glaze a Little Grebe,pair of Goosander and a few Mallard.

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The Hooded Crow was back again this late morning, this time on Croxden bare peat with 4 Carrion Crows but tricky to see at times in the fog.

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Irlam Moss

360 Lapwing

26 Fieldfare

2 Great Black-Backed Gull

9 Herring Gull

1600 Starling

1 Grey Wagtail

32 Redwing

29 Collared Dove

Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier

10 Pink-footed Geese

4 Snipe

 



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Irlam Moss

400 Lapwing

1300 Starling

30 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East @ 0935

450 Black-Headed Gull

85 Redwing

Barton Moss

12 Fieldfare

14 Chaffinch

Chat Moss

36 Skylark

80 Starling

5 Snipe

1 Raven



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201224 including a Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count Little Woolden Moss LWTNR + LWM (west)

17 Teal

15 Fieldfare

85 Pink-Footed Geese 

2 Grey Wagtail

6 Stock Dove

250 Redwing (at one stage in song atop tall trees...a delight!)

1 Yellowhammer

450 Linnet

1 Brambling

70 Chaffinch

3 Snipe

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

 

 



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191224 Including a Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count Barton Moss

6 Reed Bunting

4 Meadow Pipit

3 Snipe

1 Song Thrush

6 Common Gull

1 Stonechat

2 Bullfinch

....and yet another stark reminder with this year really putting in focus that our Birds are in many places Absent....and I don't mean temporarily....especially emphasised that after at least an half hour checking over a large area of 'farmed' fields that my sum total of birds was 1 Reed Bunting and 2 Meadow Pipit....



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181224....Including Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count Little Woolden Moss

3 Snipe

13 Reed Bunting

1 Buzzard

1 Marsh Harrier

19 Skylark

1 Sparrowhawk...Female

1 Goldcrest

Chat Moss

8 Pink-Footed Geese

17 Starling

Irlam Moss

125 Fieldfare

70 Starling

80 Lapwing



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171224....Brief Visit (very!)

Irlam Moss

200 Starling

180 Fieldfare

Chat Moss

170 Jackdaw

7 Stock Dove

 



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Chat Moss

130 Jackdaw

1 Grey Partridge

5 Reed Bunting

3 Snipe

2 Yellowhammer

9 Meadow Pipit

1 Sparrowhawk

4 Rook



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Irlam Moss

550 Starling

2 Redwing

45 Fieldfare

Chat Moss 

13 Pink-Footed Geese

45 Linnet

350 Jackdaw

5 Rook

4 Snipe

9 Skylark

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss (FN57/64 + Whitegate Farm Stewardship Crop)

22 Stock Dove 

215 Redwing

2 Fieldfare

4 Yellowhammer

70 Chaffinch

450 Linnet

2 Brambling

3 Buzzard

Irlam Moss

300 Starling

13 Fieldfare



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Irlam Moss

7 Snipe

6 Grey Partridge

Cadishead Moss

350 Fieldfare

70 Redwing

6 Skylark

4 Grey Partridge

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Snipe

11 Reed Bunting



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Late Record...271124

Irlam Moss

18 Lapwing

1700 Starling

402 Black-Headed Gull

6 Fieldfare

2 Redwing

2 Goldcrest....one in song

7 Blackbird

1 Buzzard...Very Pale Bird

2 Bullfinch

Chat Moss

47 Redwing

21 Starling

1 Yellowhammer

31 Fieldfare

12 Meadow Pipit

2 Skylark.

 



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Tuesday 17th December 2024

10:15 hrs: 200 plus Pink Footed Geese flying south east over Little Woolden Moss NR

11:15 hrs: 5 Whooper Swans flying west low over field 52 (Chat Moss)

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A Hooded Crow was amongst the mixed corvid flock feeding in f52 late afternoon before the flock flew off south.

Other highlights from the mosses today:
1 Willow Tit
2 Brambling heard
1 (2?) Kingfisher
1 Stonechat
1 Lesser Redpoll
1 Greater Spotted Woodpecker
2 Chiffchaff - 1 seen, another calling
3 Snipe
1 Water Rail heard
Pink-footed Geese heard

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Little Woolden Moss NR, Little Woolden Moss and Chat Moss. 14th December 2024.

Marsh Harrier (1) Field 63,
Stonechat (2) Field 20,
Chiffchaff (1) Field 52,
Redwing (12) Field 52,
Brambling (1) in large Chaffinch flock with Greenfnch above 'Sunflower field' near Whitegate Farm,
Kestrel (1) Field 17,
Buzzard (1) Field 20,
Rook (2) Field 52.



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Late post from weekend - Chat Moss

Saturday - 2 Brambling - both male, 2 Chiffchaff in a mixed tit flock
Sunday - 6 Brambling, 1 Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier (juv male & female)

-- Edited by Steven Nelson on Tuesday 3rd of December 2024 09:10:58 PM

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A wander down Moss Lane over the Glaze to the set aside where the farmer has planted flax. There were at least 400 finches feeding on the seed,mainly Linnet and Chaffinch,couldn't find any Brambling amongst them unfortunately. The birds spend time perching in nearby trees where good views can be obtained. On the surrounding fields several hundred Woodpigeon,about 100 Starling with a few Redwing mixed in with them,and a Kestrel hunting . Approx 80 Pink Footed Geese flew west at midday.

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Highlight of a late morning to mid afternoon visit was a male Merlin loitering with intent to take a finch for lunch. Unsuccessful while I was watching. A female/immature Kestrel was also interested but moved off before the Merlin did.

A covey of 10 nondescript Partridges in F 57 looked suspiciously similar to birds in a wooden coop on fields to the west and behaved like headless chickens when spooked by walker in a white coat. Freshly released for the Christmas shoot?

Otherwise.

Linnet, Greenfinch and Chaffinch in good numbers, also Goldfinch and 2 sightings of Bullfinch
Blue, Great and Long-Tailed Tits, Robin, Wren, Dunnock, House Sparrow, Reed Bunting
Several Blackbirds, 1 Mistle Thrush on Irlam Moss, 1 Fieldfare feeding on fallen apples.
Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Feral Pigeon, Wood Pigeon
Mallard, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Lapwing
Magpie, Pied Wagtail, Pheasant.

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261124

Irlam Moss

260 Starling

290 Black-Headed Gull

22 Goldfinch

16 Redwing

11 Fieldfare

Chat Moss

45 Meadow Pipit

7 Redwing

54 Lapwing

150 starling

24 Stock Dove

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Reed Bunting 

1 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss (FN56/57/64)

6 Skylark

400 Linnet

3 Mistle Thrush

70 Chaffinch

 



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251124...With Steve Atkins....During a Survey of Natural England Fields

115 Pink-Footed Geese in 3 Skeins

2 Sparrowhawk

3 Lesser Redpoll

2 Yellowhammer

17 Meadow Pipit

26 Lapwing

2 Stonechat

3 Snipe

14 Teal

26 Collared Dove

1 Peregrine hunting...whilst the intended prey....Jackdaw/Feral Pigeon...were distracted a Buzzard swept in an took a Jackdaw..



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