Late post for Sunday 27.10.24 (late afternoon).
On my way back to the car at Turn Moss after a disastrous mooch avoiding motorbikes, joggers,speeding cyclists and football players , dog walkers and after - lunch walkers around Stretford Ees, Hawthorn lane ect.

T- Moss .
Common gull -15.
Herring gull - 4.
Black- headed gull - c 20.
Ring- necked parakeet - 4.
Carrion crow - 9 having a real scrap with one another, mainly all attacking one individual then attacking other individuals.
Other Carrion crows feeding elsewhere undisturbed.
Absolutely nowt elsewhere apart from a Robin !

Lesser Whitethroat 1 along the eastern side of the school hedgerow

Mediterranean Gull - 2nd summer on the school field with 310 Black-headed Gulls this morning. Front centre in photo taken through fence

Woodcock 1 (flushed by a dog along Hawthorn Lane then flew right past me)
Raven pair flew two circuits around the moss
Chiffchaff 12

No sign of the Mediteranean Gull this afternoon up until 14.15 and not many gulls present anyway - half dozen each of Lesser Black-backed and Herring (including 2 on the School playing fields, 2 Common Gulls and around 20 Black-headed Gulls.
Bonus as I was leaving of a Raven which dropped in and was immediately surrounded by around 50 Carrion Crows and a few Jackdaws, while another Raven flew low overhead. Not the place I expected to see my first Raven of the year and certainly not on the ground

-- Edited by Mike Chorley on Thursday 7th of March 2024 07:52:13 PM

Mediterranean Gull still present this evening to the east of Turn Moss Road.

Mediterranean Gull 1 adult still present
Black-headed Gull 319
Common Gull 46
Herring Gull 2
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Buzzard 3 together

Mediterranean Gull on the left side of entrance road near to the flats so a little distant. Keeping to itself. I just beat the rain!

Mediterranean Gull 1 - the full hooded metal ringed bird was displaying to a Black-headed Gull this afternoon

Mediterranean Gull 1 adult this pm (the one with the full hood that prefers the school field)
Black-headed Gull 997
Common Gull 88

Mediterranean Gull adult still present

From 2:45pm today on the 2 mainly flooded areas at the Stretford Cemetery end and between the top of TM Car park/ Hawthorn lane.
c2000 gulls ,the majority being Black- headed gull with quite a few Common gull (stopped counting at 40 by dog walkers) but probably a couple of hundred maybe .
Also not many Lesser Black-back gull about 10.
Nothing special found before most gulls left around 4pm except an adult Common Gull which had a thinner,flatter head, not rounded as usual which I thought was just a poor quality specimen.

Ring-necked Parakeet 71 > west or south west
Swallow > 5 south
Redwing 115 > south or south west
Pied Wagtail 4 > south
Meadow Pipit 66 > south
Chaffinch 16 > south
Redpoll 5 > south
Siskin 1 > south

-- Edited by Pete Hines on Tuesday 10th of October 2023 10:07:44 AM

Peregrine 1, drifted west
Buzzard 3 together
Meadow Pipit 71 over south (67 between 09.30-10.00)
Skylark 1 over south
Linnet 1 over west

Hobby 1 mobbed by Swallows, continued north east
Swallow 40
House Martin 10
Swift 1
Willow Warbler 1 in song
Chiffchaff 6

Hobby 1 high at 09.25 (my 100th species for this site)
Willow Warbler 2 (also on 17th)

Mediterranean Gull 1 adult flew north from the school field at 06.50
Reed Bunting singing male

06.30

Lesser Black-backed Gull 66
Herring Gull 5
Black-headed Gull 5
Ring-necked Parakeet 35

yesterday 05-10

Ring-necked Parakeet 63 mostly flying over south east
Woodpigeon 332

Wheatear 2 still present his evening (both pictured here)

2 Wheatear on the pitches opposite the school fence currently

Redstart - male still in SE corner this afternoon, though mobile and elusive

Redstart still present in the eastern hedgerow and along Bolesworth Wood 17.30

Little Egret 1 over NW at 08.00
Reed Bunting pair still

Peregrine 1 just missed a Jackdaw and carried on east towards Chorlton 14.57
Willow 1 at 53.438999, -2.293236 (first I've seen here for ages)