Pete - have a look in the Escapes section in the 2005 county bird report - a pair apparently tried to nest in palms at the Trafford Centre and plenty of sightings in your neck of the woods. A few years ago one nested with a Buzzard in Cheshire (I think Chelford SQ) - can't remember whether they hatched any young...!
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Judith Smith
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Lightshaw hall Flash is sacrosanct - NO paths please!
A local resident informed me that a Harris Hawk has been coming to roost in this wood recently (I don't know for how long). He gave me a very credible description and it's wearing jesses. I haven't seen one around Chorlton WP for years so I assume it's hunting elsewhere - maybe around the Didsbury and Northendon golf courses ?.
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