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Hope Carr this afternoon held 2+green sand, c.20 snipe, 1 chiffchaff, 3 willow tit, 4 bullfinch, 2 kingfisher and the pochardxtufty hybrid.

juv Great Northern Diver still in the SW corner of no 2 Resv this am.

1st winter male Scaup, 94 Tufted, 24 Pochard, 1 redhead Goosander

A first-winter drake Scaup, 90 Tufted, 26 Pochard and one redhead Goosander today

There were 450+ greenfinch at a regular winter roost site in Wigan tonight (23/11). They roost in tall Laurels next to a Council car-park by Corkhills VW garage on Wallgate (opp Wigan Pier).

Teal 126 Willow tit 2 Fieldfare 172 south Woodpigeon 90 west and 100+ in woods Buzzard, Spahawk and Kestrel. Bullfinnch 7 Also lots of Dunnocks, Balckbirds, Song thrush around

No sign this morning of a drake Scaup seen yesterday afternoon on no 1 Resv. 1 Wigeon, 3 Redshank,9 Pochard and c50 Goldeneye.

A slightly oiled adult Kittiwake was seen on Pearson's Flash, then on Scotman's Flash, where it settled on the jetty, this morning during the WeBS count, by Mark Champion.

went to pennington, all the usual suspects but very busy,bickershaw flash, coot,bh gulls and a goldeneye, horrock,s flash goosander

The following records received from Rob Smallwood: Carrington Moss: Merlin, 2 Stonechats, 30+ Yellowhammers.

Seen Saturday, 18th November, 2006. 1 Buzzard, 2 Goldcrests, 20+ Goldfinches, 3 Yellowhammers. Male and female Stonechats south side of field, directly behind Shell Pool Reserve. 100+ Pinkfeet Geese seen flying west to east, south of C'ton Moss.

Manchester RSPB Local Group have a program of indoor events On November 28th 7:30 - Susan and Allan Parker are giving a talk on "Birding Southern Florida" St James Parish Church Hall Gatley Green Gatley Note the hall is behind the church, reached from the side road. Please do not par...

geese around main car park area included canada, greylag, pink footed, white fronted, barnacle and snow hybrid. who needs martin mere?!

At about 10:30: c20 Common Gull, c30 Black-headed Gull, 6 Mallard, c35 Lapwing

This was posted on the Rossendale Bird Forum and I thought it might be of interest to others. Sorry for taking a while to do so. Ashworth Moor Res and Cheesden 14:00-17:00 46 canada geese (34 of which flew off at 15:00, 25 flew in at 17:00) 7 mallard 3 wigeon 36 goosander 290 black headed gu...

siskin-23(plank lane end),goosander-3m7f,golden eye-18f,3m, redwing -150+, tufted-172, goldfinch-65,great crested grebe-85, wigeon-1m,shoveler-2 pr, teal-25+, cormorant-24, gadwall-6pr,grey heron-3 -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 19:20, 2006-11-18

Bittern - on Pearsons 08.00. at first perched in reeds at back of flash, then flew across water and into reedbed on canal side. 3 Pintail (1 drk) also on Pearsons briefly. 6 Wigeon on Scotmans 6+ Goldeneye c30 Lesser Redpoll between Moss Bridge and Turners. also with these handfulls of Goldfi...

Buzzard over Mossley Hall. drk Goosander. 4 Wigeon ( 1 drk ). male Blackcap - near canal @ concrete bridge. Water Rail - again under Rosehip outside Horrocks.2 Snipe. 6+ Goldeneye. 4 Redwing. 20 Cormorant., Bar headed Goose. 10 LBBG`s. Pied Wagtail. numbers of Teal, Shoveler, Gadwall, Tufty`s, GCG...

A Peregrine and at least 2 sparrowhawks had the starlings and pigeons in a flap over Eccles town centre this lunchtime. Thats all for now Andy

pair of Mandarin Ducks - River Douglas @ Marylebone Bridge 2 Kestrels Cormorant - fishing on canal Coal Tit - Hall Lane Stock Dove

18 Tufted here - high for this time of year,also 4 Cormorant , 1 Pochard, 2 Great Crested Grebes and 2 Dippers on the river

3 lesser redpoll with goldfinches in plantation, weasel peeping from stone wall near ruin, about 8 brambling feeding near higher slack brook, and a few redwing and fieldfare about. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 13:07, 2006-11-21

ad Yellow-legged Gull (resv 1) 3 Redshank (resv 1 then 2) drk Wigeon 78 Tufted Duck 45+ Goosander 3+ Pochard 6 Mute Swan 50 Lapwing

Today whilst at moses gate I noticed that one of the adult breeding swans on the back lake had got fishing line caught around its beak and was struggling to get it off. It needs someone to go up with a swan hook to help catch the bird and release the line. I hope there is someone out there that can organ...

Audenshaw reservoirs 07.20 -09.20 Tufted Duck approximately 68 Mute Swan 6 Goosander 6 Pochard 8 Coot 12 Golden Plover at least 130 flying over Sainsbury's

hi...this sighting is a bit late but better late than never..this is my first post here......we were driving down the M66 which had just about started...on Monday 24th October about 12.40pm when i notice a brownish-greyish bird fly across......i did nt pay attention to it at...

Birdguides reported a House Martin at Castleshaw Reservoirs this pm (just after dinnier-ish), a great record, anyone on the forum have any further info on this bird?

Approachable Pink-Footed Goose feeding with Canadas (1st winter I would say), I will post photograph when I can get my PC working properly think I have a virus. Also a disappointingly low Mute swan count of 61.

Bunting hide 2 Coal Tits 2 Willow Tits Water Rail Teal Hide 4 Goosander Kingfisher Horrock's hide 4 Snipe

Sonia Elsey tells me there were 20 Goosanders at Rhodes Lodges this morning - these birds probably are the ones roosting on Heaton Park Resr.