Wheatear 2 on land west of the Shell Pond, looking through the fence Lapwing 7 Snipe 1 Tawny Owl 1 vocal male from the orchard at midday Raven 1 Skylark 5 Chiffchaff 7
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This afternoon from 14:10 not much about at all but I did see a large flock of about 100 Fieldfare (as well as an equal amount of Starling) leave and then return to F11 stuble field. Once I erected my scope to do a count I couldn't see them at all,even though I knew where they landed and also looked from two sides of the field . A Kestrel was also hunting nearby.
Raven - on top of the electricity distribution plant at the top of Isherwood Road. Looked like he was pulling the entrails out of a rat or similar. Skylark Fieldfare Black-Headed Gull Canada Goose Tufted Duck Mallard Coot Moorhen Lesser Black-Backed Gull Redwing Blackbird Carrion Crow Jackdaw Magpie Robin Jay Corn Bunting - single bird near the bridge at the southern end of the path between fields 10 and 11 Rook Pheasant Great Tit Yellowhammer Goosander* (*on the pond behind the steel fence near the house building at the western side of the Moss) Cormorant* Siskin Chaffinch Linnet Reed Bunting Greenfinch
Horse fields and scrub / trees between Isherwood Road and Sale Sharks
Willow Tit 1 seen and heard in scrub under the pylon line 53.431206, -2.375918 Stonechat pair around the horse paddocks Meadow Pipit 22 Mistle Thrush 7
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Another late post - Friday 24.11.23 from 2.15pm. Field 11/12 (the carrot field, with the 2 pylons close together). Stonechat - 2 m+ f together. Goldfinch - 10 feeding along F12 margin and the pathway. Pinkfooted geese - c160 flying N to S and dropping down to land in the distance. Also c 60 - flying S to N dropping down into similar area , probably Warburton/Carrington . Elsewhere - Kestrel - 2 hunting in different areas.
Horse paddock. Jay -1. Pheasant -2 f. Redwing - 2. F4. Kestrel -2 m+f. F5. Buzzard -1 (over). Pheasant -2 m. F14/15 margin. Stonechat -1f . F15. Linnet -6. Goldfinch -1 (with the linnet's). Skylark -25. Meadow pipit -12. Raven -1 (seen on dead elm tree on Dark lane, through scope).
Stonechat - 2 ( f12/13 margin). * CORN BUNTING* - 1 futher along the margin in a Goat Willow ( I've not seen one at Carrington for years ). Buzzard -1 . Jay - 1. Kestrel - 2. Starling - 20 on Pylon. Mistle Thrushe - 4 ( same pylon). Skylark - 5. Cormorant - 1. Wood pigeon - c50.
This afternoon from 1:30 pm. Stonechat - 4 (f12) with 3 chasing each other in f12. Buzzard - 10 (1f12 and 3 high over Bassel site , plus 6over Altrincham). Kestrel - 2. Jay - 2.
Northern fields. Path from Isherwood Rd butty van > horse paddocks > beyond Sale Sharks (off the field numbers map)
Wheatear 4. 1 in field next to Isherwood Rd opposite new housing, 1 in field next to Carrington Rd/Sale Sharks and 2 the next field in (with the pylon). Whitethroat 4 (1 pair) Oystercatcher 2 Yellowhammer 2
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Field 5 - Wheatear - 8 ( which is now 50% ploughed , and I saw the plough returning from working other fields later). Mistle thrush - 2. Pied wagtail - 2.
Elsewhere - Chiffchaff - 1 seen + 1 heard. Blackcap - 1 seen + 2 heard. Jay - 1. Bullfinch - 2. Buzzard - 1. Mistle thrush - 1.
Partridge 2 F1 Peregrine male patrolling F8 and stooping after a Feral Pigeon Skylark 10+ Redwing 30+ Fieldfare 40+ Stonechat 1 female under the pylons still F12 Chaffinch 96, c80 in F9 Linnet c150 F9 Reed Bunting 6+
Raven 1
-- Edited by Pete Hines on Tuesday 14th of March 2023 08:43:53 PM
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Mandarin Duck 6. 3 pairs together on Sinderland Brook at Sinderland Green Wood Skylark 1 F26 Fieldfare 86 ranging between F69/F70/F25 Chaffinch 130 ranging between F71/F26 Linnet 70 again F71/76
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Decent hour here today, despite the cold wind and multiple off-road motorbikes.
6 Grey Partridge (2 F1, 2 F10, 2 F11). Woodcock flushed from old railway, flew across F9. Raven over F10. Good numbers of Skylarks across multiple fields.
Grey Partridge 6 (2 F1, 2 F2, 2 F11) Tawny Owl daytime singing male at the Old Orchard Raven 1 Skylark 65 (40 in F4, 25 in F11) Treecreeper 1 Redwing 85 by the Riding School Stonechat 3 usual pair by the pylons in F12, another female at the west end of F2 Chaffinch 80 in F9 Linnet 150 in F9
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If I didn't know better, I'd say that I've just seen an Osprey over Sale. I live close to the edge of Carrington Moss in the Manor Avenue/Moss Lane area and I just watched a large pale raptor with long cranked wings and comparatively short tail gliding and circling over the Avenue, I lost it behind a neighbour's house.
Bit late for an Osprey, but I couldn't make it into anything else (I'm very experienced with raptors, so it wasn't a Buzzard or a Red Kite!)