2.40 - 3.15

342 Black-headed Gull
4 Common Gull
14 Mistle Thrush

Numbers up again late afternoon c700 Black-headed gulls in total - 2 flocks - 1 of about 200 gulls on school playing fields - the other over 500 on football pitches immediately on left as you enter from Turn Moss Road/Lane. Many following the tractor cutting the grass! No sign of Mediterrian Gull in large flock - the second flock was too distant for detailed scan with binoculars. Also;
Lesser Black-backed gull 2
Woodpigeons 70+
Starling 1 flock of c40 birds
Swallow 7

Numbers down today, 100 BH Gulls on Rugby field,

1 large red tractor upsetting birds.

600+ BH Gulls
1 Med Gull Adult.
7 LBB Gulls
4 Lapwing
1 Oystercatcher.

50 Jackdaw
12 Crows
37 Magpies

22 Mistle Thrush
7 Blackbird
25 Starling
120 Woodpigeon,

On flood fields this afternoon, I have seen large common gull flocks here as well in the past, there must be some pattern to the large flocks here.

2 blackcaps
2 willow warblers
3 chiffchaffs
1 lapwing (over)
4 mistle thrushes
2 song thrushes
2 mallards
lots off woodpigeons.

-- Edited by steven burke on Wednesday 18th of April 2012 10:54:16 PM

1 male Redstart present at 9am this morning, on the playing fields side of Stretford Grammar School's fenced off field.

1 Lesser Black-Backed Gull on the SGS field.

Still present mid afternoon but dashed illusive!

Had a look at 6.45am this morning could not find redstart.going back past at 10.25am and found it again still in same area despite the football being played.

Ollie Wright wrote:

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I popped down on my bike, arriving at about 6:45pm but having not been to the site before, didn't really know where to look and wasn't fortunate enough to bump into Messrs Burke and Kelly. Darn!

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ollie,we were still there at that time,a shame,but it is a large area. i have given a description off the area,but it might be too late now or not its still worth a look around the area. good luck if you do.

got here just after 5pm walked across the field to my right and headed for the top corner off the schools fenced off field which has hawthorns along the top fence and after counting the woodpigeons just got to the corner and a REDSTART a fine looking male was feeding low to the ground on and off the hawthorns onto the grass,it was a bit wary so i kept my distance but carried on watching it for a good couple off hours,it was always keeping low to the ground but did disappear every now and then. after letting ian know about my find i got in touch with phil kelly and he was there in 15 mins,so was nice to have someone else see it and to my surprise it was actually a lifer for phil your welcome phil and thanks for the lift back.

other birds..

2 willow warblers
200+ woodpigeons
1 pied wagtail
2 great tits
2 blue tits
2 jackdaws
4 crows
lots off magpies
great spotted woodpecker (heard )

this evening

7 willow warblers,6 seen 1 heard
1 willow tit
2 chaffinches
2 great tits
3 blue tits
4 long tailed tits
all along hawthorn rd

300+ woodpigeons
2 stock doves
28 starlings
4 crows
all on playing fields

1 grey heron over.

because the football on the pitches all (or most) off the gulls were in the school fields...

218 common gulls & there were still several more in flight. the largest amount i have ever counted there.
100+ b h gulls
3 l b b gulls
6 mistle thrushes
jackdaws & starlings

2 buzzards over heading towards sale water park at 12.15pm

Monday 06.02.12:

On partially flooded fields -
Teal 1
Redwing 13
Mistle Thrush 3
Black-headed Gull 51
Common Gull c 80
Lesser Black-backed Gull 4
Woodpigeon c 10
Pied Wagtail 1

Info thanks to Phil Kelly

Not so many gulls today as in the recent past. However, most of the ones I did see were:

Common Gull
Black-headed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Jackdaw (a small flock of 12 birds)
Carrion Crow

Pair of Sparrowhawks in atleast partial display today.

Info thanks to Phil Kelly