Bent Spur Farm and Kearsley Moss. Raven and Curlew over. The farmer saw a Grey Partridge in one of the fields at Bent Spur.

Bent Spur Road. Stonechat on wire fence at the back of the left hand field, when walking from the main road, also 2 Oystercatcher in same field and 34 Lapwing in all fields.

Yellow legged Gull on kearsley cricket club at 1.30 today 

Oystercatcher daily visitor on kearsley cricket club

25 Goldfinches on and around our feeders this afternoon.

A Siskin visited my garden this morning.
A first for me.

Yesterday our resident Grey Wagtail appeared with a mate. So hopefully
we may see youngsters next month.

A Blackbird feeding on orange pyracantha berries
in my back garden. Nothing been on the red ones
in the front garden.

Grey Wagtail returned to our back garden on Sunday
More or less the Same time as last year.

An Easter walk around Kearsley, Ringley and Prestolee including
the river Irwell and the canal.
Starling x 5
Magpie x 9
Willow Warbler x 2
Mallard x 8
Common Buzzard x 1
Blackbird x 5
Wood Pigeon x 20
Great Tit x 2
Canada Goose x 4
Wren x 2
Robin x 8
House Sparrow x 5
Tree Sparrow x 1
Goosander x 1
Moorhen x 3
Black Headed Gull x 1
Willow Tit x1
Feral Pigeon x 15
Blue tit x 2
Blackcap x 1

Walked down Bentspur Rd up to the motorway and along the parallel path
to the Buddhist temple then left up the public footpath back to Bentspur.
Starling x 9
Black Headed Gull x 4
Blackbird x 4
House Sparrow x 10
Wren x 2
Wood Pigeon x 12
Carrion Crow x 5
Magpie x 20
Mistle Thrush x 2
Lapwing x 8
Mallard x 2
Oystercatcher x 2
Coot x 1
Feral Pigeon x 8
Robin x 8
Moorhen x 2
Great Tit x 1
Coal Tit x 1
Blue Tit x 2
Collared Dove x 2
Song Thrush x 3

100+ Goldfinches flocked to the roost at the
Schoenstat Shrine yesterday afternoon at 4.45.

Great Spotted Woodpecker at the top of the tall conifer
at the rear of our house. First time for our garden.This
brings my garden total up to 50.

The Grey Wagtail has returned to our back garden
for the winter hopefully .It arrived about this time
last year.I saw it last on 27th March this year.
It has probably spent the summer on the
Irwell which is about 3/4 of a mile away
in a straight line.

A pair of Redstarts (m+f) chasing one another around the
large conifer at the rear of our back garden .
A first for the garden .This brings my garden total to 58
over several decades.

Walked down Bent Spur Road once again.Just as far as the
private pond near the farm.The pond is in the middle of a
massive sun farm which is responsible for the lack of
farmland birds .Birds seen :
Robin x 6
Feral Pigeon 6
Goldfinch x 8
Carrion Crow x 2
House Sparrow x 12
Blackbird x 8
Black Headed Gull x 2
Great Tit x 1
Lesser Black Backed Gull x 1
Lapwing x8 +2 chicks wandering about
Magpie x 21
Mallard x 2
Stonechat x 1. 61st lockdown walk bird
Tree Sparrow x 1
Swift x 2
Swallow x 2
Starling x 30. A large flock harvesting leatherjackets

Had a walk around the garden of the Schoenstatt Shrine yesterday.
THe chapel opened in 2000. This is only my second visit in that time.
the garden is large and full of really unusual trees.The view across
the Irwell Valley towards the Pennines is quite impressive.
Birds seen:
Blue Tit x 3
Black Headed Gull x 4 over
Robin x 4
Blackbird x 4
feral Pigeon x 8 over
Goldfinch x 3
Wood Pigeon x 6 over
Song thrush x 2
Swift x 2
Common Buzzard x 1 over
Magpie x 4
Carrion Crow x 2
Great Black Backed Gull x 1 over
Collared Dove x 1 over
Herring Gull x2 over
House sparrow x 6
Lapwing x 1 over
Starling x 8
Grey Wagtail x 1
Lesser Black Backed Gull x 2 over
Wood Pigeon x 6
Chaffinch x 1
Common Gull x 2 over

Same walk as before . 19 birds seen :
Wood Pigeon x 26
Blackbird x 7
Starling x 28
Black Headed Gull x 2 (overhead)
Magpie x 10
Blue Tit x 2
Robin x 3
Feral Pigeon x 11
Lapwing x 5
Grey Heron x 1 (overhead)
Carrion Crow x 2
House Sparrow x 14
Wren x 1
Collared Dove x 1
Great Tit x 1
On the pond:
Coot x 2
Mallard x 4
Oystercatcher x 2
Moorhen x 2

A walk down Bent Spur Road up to the farm.
13 birds seen as follows :
Black Headed Gull x 4
Carrion Crow x 6
Blackbird x 7
Feral Pigeon x 10
Wood Pigeon x 30
Herring Gull x 1
Common Buzzard x 1
Magipie x 12
Lapwing x 8
Pheasant x 2
Robin x 4
Tree Sparrow x 1
House Sparrow x 31

Hi Carl.
Slip of the brain.Didnt realise I had typed yellow. I of
course meant grey.

Our resident Yellow Wagtail has taken to attacking his reflection
in the shed window albeit half heartedly.He has been resident for
about 6 weeks. He also inhabits our friends garden in the next
terrace where they have a pond .

A flock of 12 long tailed tits in the trees behind my house.

Tree Sparrow amongst the House Sparrows on my feeders this morning.

Male sparrowhawk in my garden in Clifton today. He swooped through the garden around 8am then returned at 2pm and perched on my neighbours shed for around 20 minutes.