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Post Info TOPIC: Cheshire River Mersey Sites (north of the river)


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Cheshire River Mersey Sites


Fiddlers Ferry
Walk along canal almost to Gatewarth
2 Cettis Warblers, many Reed Warblers and at least 1 Grasshopper Warbler all heard singing 5.00pm ish

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Gatewarth
Atypically good, and prolonged, views of a Grasshopper Warler reeling from atop a bramble thicket. The vibrations of its throat could be seen as it sang and also the distinctive head turning technique to mask its position from hearers.

4 Bulfinch

1 Great Crested Grebe.

6 or 7 Buzzards soaring high joined by a Sparrowhawk.



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Gatewarth
no soon said than done
Sedge Warbler this AM singing from tops of Hawthorne bushes

Goldfinches collecting nesting material
5 plus Swallows

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thanks Rob
Sedge Warbler is the other warbler I was thinking of !

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Hi John.
Just a quick observation in that youve only listed 6 Warbler species so far this year, and only 8 last year, those being...

...Cettis Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Reed Warbler, and Grasshopper Warbler this year with the extra 2 for last year being...Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat.
Did you mean 6/8?
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Gatewarth
8-9 pm
2 reeling Grasshopper Warblers heard. 1 seen.
This means seven ninths of regular warbler species that usually occur here seen this year so far.

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Gatewarth
2 Reed Warblers seen - canal
Green Woodpecker heard qute distant from direction of Fiddlers Ferry pub

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Gatewarth
2 Swallows
2 House Martins
1 Cettis Warbler
2 Blackcap

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Cuerdley Marsh/R. Mersey yesterday:

Marsh Harrier - immature male heading slowly eastwards across marsh

Little Egret - 2

Ringed Plover - pair

Common Snipe - 3

Jack Snipe - 1

Northern edge adjacent to Sankey Canal:

Cettis Warbler - 4

Yellowhammer - male

several Chiffchaff & Blackcap


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09.30-13.00

Walked from level crossing by Fiddlers Ferry pub car park to Sankey Brook and back.

River Mersey :

8 Redshanks, 10 Shelducks, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Gadwall, 1 Mute Swan, 3 Cormorants and 2 Grey Herons.

Former Gatewarth Tip site and area along St Helens canal:

1m Yellowhammer, 1f Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzards, 2 Willow Warblers, 4m Blackcaps, 1 Linnet, 2m+1f Bullfinches, 8 Jays, 2 Greenfinches

and 2 singing Chiffchaffs.

Nothing uncommon amongst the gulls on the river, although there were 8 adult Common Gulls, and no Great Black Backs.

Cettis Warblers gave short bursts of song at 4 separate points, but none were seen.




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Fiddlers Ferry - Gatewarth
5 or 6 Willow Warblers
3 Chiffchaff
1 Blackcap

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Fiddlers Ferry - Gatewarth
10 plus Chiffchaff
1 Cettis Warbler
1 M Bullfinch

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Fiddlers Ferry - Gatewarth

5 Chiffchaffs
3 Cettis Wablers
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
2 Buzzard
1 Jay

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Gatewarth
Quite sunny but not very Spring like, cold and windy. Fields and paths flooded.
Only warbler singing was a Cettis from the canal side reeds.
2 Buzzards flying v close together calling to each other.
1 m Kestrel

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Gatewarth
Cettis Warbler heard singing from cover in field sloping down to Fiddlers Ferry

The hawthorn hedge at top of bank has been flailed back heavily. Not great news for nesting birds this Spring, but at least not grubbed out completely.

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Gatewarth
830AM
1 very mobile Cetti's Warbler in full enthusiastic song from cover . ranging from canal side to Old Tip area.

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Gatewarth
Pair Stonechat active and eailsy visible perched on brambles in field sloping down to Ferry Pub.
1 f Grey Wagtail on canal towpath.

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Gatewarth - Fiddler Ferry

12 Curlews on River
1 m Stonechat in brambley canal side rough
1 m Kestrel just about managing to hover in strong gusty wind

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Gatewarth
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Brief burst of song from a Cetti's Warbler
30+ Teal on River

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Gatewarth
High tide. Foggy.
2 Buzzards
1 m Bullfinch

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Fiddlers Ferry-Gatewarth
pm
Wet. Driving fine rain gusting in off River. The wet weather made a Robin's decision to indulge in a long bath in a puddle on the path seem a bit pointless.
1 Jay in hedge on top of bank.
1 Grey Wagtail on large midden.
1 Fieldfare and 2 Mistle Thrush with small flock of Starlings in fields.

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Fiddlers Ferry
PM
30plus Pink Footed Geese in straggley "V" lowish. Prob coming off fields on other side of River.

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Fiddlers Ferry
1 Great Crested Grebe on River
20+ Redshank in tight flock

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Fiddlers Ferry-Gatewarth

Wet and muddy early morning.
A Buzzard hulking on a small fencepost looked drenched.
Dunnocks and especially Wrens seemded to be singing prominently, presumably establishing or reestablishing territories for next Spring, even if that event seemed far off today.

Single Great Spotted Woodpecker seen.

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Fiddlers Ferry-Gatewarth
Horse fields : 1 Buzzard being mobbed enthusiastically by 2 Crows
1 f Grey Wagtail
Old Tip : 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker flying over.

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Fiddlers Ferry-Gatewarth
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Several flocks of Long Tailed Tits
2 Curlew feeding in farm fields
Fieldfare audible over
1 Cettis Warbler almost singing


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Gatewarth
Single Redwing feeding on berry laden hedges with Blackbirds was first of the season for me.

Tidal Bore (I think) visible in the River at high tide.


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Gatewarth
AM
1 Cettis Warbler heard singing.
1 f Grey Wagtail.
Tight flock of 12+ Reed Buntings feeding methodically along a long hawthorn hedge like a flock of finches.

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Fiddlers Ferry - Gatewarth
m Stonecchat still present.

12 + Goldfinches also here on teazles

1 F Sparrowhawk hunting v low (inches off ground) along hedge, stopping to perch up on fences.

1 f Grey Wagtail.
1 Buzzard

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Fiddlers Ferry - Gatewarth
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1 M Stonechat perching up on dead heads of thistles/sedges/grasses just past the water plant building compound. Right up to the River bank. Active.

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Fiddlers Ferry
6 30 pm
Reedbed in canal up past Marina was full of roosting Pied Wagtails. Scores of birds and more noisily arriving constantly.
Not surprising that a Juv m Sparrowhawk was attracted, shooting right into reeds, twisting and turning as it pursued the smaller birds.

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Gatewarth
Swallows constantly over in small numbers including juveniles noisily begging for food and being fed on the wing by the adult birds.

A sheltered hawthorn hedge near the windpump laden with berries was a magnet for passerines, many juveniles : Blue, Great and Long Tailed Tits feeding with Greenfinch and Goldfinch, Reed Bunting, Willow Warblers and a single Blackcap.

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Gatewarth
1 Little Egret feeding on river at low tide.

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Large loose flocks of post breeding passerines in hedges and copses. Ash trees opposite Penketh Old Hall Stables especially favoured. Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Linnet. Whitethroat, Willow Warbler/Chiffchaff, Dunnocks.

Single Little Egret low over River. Weird that they are so uncommon here, first I've had here all year.



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Gatewarth
Few birds still singing. One Whitethroat and a couple of Reed Warblers gasping out truncated efforts.
A Cetti's Warbler still going full belt though. They seem to be in song all year round.




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Gatewarth
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1 Grasshopper Warbler still reeling. From Old Tip area in full daylight.
3 Cettis Warblers singing

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Fiddlers Ferry
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Cycle track out of the Ferry Marina running along railway
Several Reed Warblers singing in canal side reed beds
3 Cettis Warblers singing from overgrown elders.

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Female Marsh Harrier seen from the Norton Marsh hide midday - initially flying low over the southeast corner of the marsh, it flew towards the river and then headed to Upper Moss Side. 



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Fiddlers Ferry
Pair of Grey Partridge in fields near Old Station House

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Gatewarth
5 - 6 pm
Warblers seen/heard around site in light rain :
1 Cettis Warbler canal side bushes /reeds and into scrub by wooden bridge. Showing quite well
1 Lesser Whitethroat hawthorns and brambles along river bank
3 Blackcap inc a pair together
3 Grasshopper Warblers Old tip area
Numerous Whitethroat , Willow Warbler, Chiff Chaff, Reed Warbler

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Gatewarth
4 - 5 pm
1 Whimbrel showing well and fairly close on River, about level to Wind Pump. Vocal when a hawking Buzzard passed low over.

Warbler species swelled by Whitethroat and Blackcap, several of both species present.
Reed, Willow, Grasshopper, Cettis Warblers and Chiff Chaff also all singing and /or seen.

A seemingly unremarkable bit of path was attractive to a range of birds, Robin, Blackcap, Long Tailed Tit, Linnet, Reed Bunting. I couldn't see anything special but maybe they were after mud for nest building ?

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Gatewarth
8pm
3+ Grasshopper Warblers reeling
2 Cettis Warblers singing
1 Swallow roung Old Hall Stables


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Warblers seen heard and/or singing round the site 6pm - 7pm
10 + Chiffchaff
10 + Willow Warbler
2 Cettis Warbler

3 Buzzards
1 Kestrel
4 Bullfinch

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Gatewarth
4 Chiffchaff singing
Penketh Old Hall Stables
1 Swallow hawking over fields here was first of year for me.

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Fiddler's Ferry
1 Chiffchaff singing from trees round Water Plant building.
Several Skylarks singing in fields
Flooding in the fields attracted Oystercatcher, Curlew, Heron.
Pair of Mute Swans nesting on canal.



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Gatewarth
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3 Chiffchaff singing , various parts of site, one seen

2 Cettis Warblers singing 1 in thick scrub on top of the River Bank 1 in reedy canal-side scrub near level crossing

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Really enjoyable couple of hours this morning at the west end of my patch. Highlight - six Whooper Swans on the River Mersey adjacent to Norton Marsh also 2 Green Sandpipers on the marsh together with 7 Redshank, 5 Curlew, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Shelduck, 23 widgeon and 17 teal.   

Cetti's Warbler heard west of Richmond Bank and one in the Eastern Reedbed at Moore Nature Reserve.

Several Chiffchaff singing in the area and Brimstone, Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell on the wing.    



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Penketh Old Hall
20 or so Redwing in horse paddocks round riding stables made a nice wintery scene in light swirling snow.
One or two Mistle Thrush with them.


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A short stroll from home in Great Sankey to Gatewarth then along the Sankey Canal, we heard a Goldcrest singing in the conifers near Penketh Lane Ends (been there for a few days now) and a Cetti's Warbler was singing near where Sankey Brook joins the Mersey

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Gatewarth
Single Fieldfare calling repeatedly from trees near level crossing

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