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This afternoon, a small Canada goose with the greylag flock. I reckon most likely Richardson's due to a combination of size, colour, lack of chin strap and bill shape. Also note the diffuse white collar, very faint but it is there.

I guess it's most likely an escape but interestingly the bird was associating with greylags rather than the Canada goose flock two fields away, and obviously occasional wild bean and whitefronts do associate with greylags. Also I watch this flock of greylags pretty regularly for this very reason, just in case a wild goose joins up with them. This is the first time I've seen this bird and it was not with them yesterday.

 



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34 whooper swans over Lightshaw Flash flying north west at 10:50am. Interestingly, 35 were recorded flying north over Bakewell in Derbyshire at 10:04. 

 



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P. M visit
Single Drake Pintail
8 Wigeon
Single female Goldeneye
40+Teal
12+ Gadwall
2 Shoveler
70+ Lapwing
Single Fieldfare and single Redwing with a group of 14 Blackbird by Lightshaw Hall
Single Lesser Redpoll flew over
Single Male Kestrel


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Ian McKerchar


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Late news for yesterday evening, when a juvenile Garganey was on Dover Basin and a Black-tailed Godwit on Lightshaw Hall Flash.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes



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Ian McKerchar


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Dover Basin late morning/early afternoon today:

Kingfisher

3 Water Rail heard

Family party of Cetti's Warbler which included 2 young (could well have been more) 

 

Lighthsaw Hall Flash:

12 Greylag Geese

160 feeding Sand Martin



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A cuckoo being chased by a black headed gull this morning.

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Plenty of Reed Warbler around Dover Basin today and also a Lesser Whitethroat. A Gadwall had 9 very small ducklings on the canal there too! Other birds included 2 Shelduck and a fishing Common Tern.

Lightshaw had a few Redshank and 2 drake Shoveler but was otherwise relatively quiet.



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Sunday 20 October 2019

3 Crossbill over, heading north, at around 15:20.
Also 1 Pintail present for at least a week now. Otherwise, the patch remains relatively quiet.


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Great White Egret departed NW at 12:20, towards the Wigan Flashes.

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Great White Egret on floods at Dover Basin at 11:40 today (undoubtably the earlier Pennington bird).

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Whinchat present at 8:30pm this evening.

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Craig Higson


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Walked down the canal from Dover Lock to the next bridge along. I didn't go down to Lightshaw Flash but viewed from the towpath. At least 3 Grasshopper Warblers singing plus the usual Reed Warblers, Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers. Two Common Terns flew down the canal. Two Greylag Geese with 7 goslings on the canal. A Little Egret was on Lightshaw with at least three Shelduck and a single Shelduck was on Dover Basin.

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Early visit to Lightshaw before the sun disappeared today.

24 Black Headed and 2 Lesser Black-Backed gulls on the water, along with 8 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 8 Teal, 9 Canada Geese, 2 Mute Swan, 7 Coot, 2 Tufted Duck and 6 Shelduck which were distinctly feisty with each other.

On the banks were 4 Reed Bunting, 3 Lapwing, and over the water, 20 or so Sand Martin.

Most surprising (to me at least) was a flock of c.50 Fieldfare in trees and feeding in the field between Lightshaw and Byrom Woods. 2 Redwing were with them.
In the same field were 2 Oystercatchers and 13 Lapwing.
Estimates not easy when birds feeding on the ground now as the grass getting quite long.

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p.m walk from Plank Lane to Lightshaw and back

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5 Willow Warbler
15 Chiffchaff
1000+ Sand Martin appeared when the sun came out
5 female Goosander
Cetti's Warbler singing at Dover Basin
30+ Shoveler
3 Buzzard

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morning walk from Plank Lane swingbridge along canal and back via Lightshaw Lane and Byrom Hall Woods
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2 Curlew following canal path towards Pennington Flash / Bickershaw Rucks direction between bridge 6 and Plank Lane.

Dover Basin

1 Cettis's Warbler showed briefly
7 Goosander
6 Pochard
1 Water Rail calling
Willow Tit on opposite side of canal

Lightshaw

50+ Lapwing
1 Oystercatcher
20+ Teal
4 Shelduck


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mid p.m
Lightshaw

13 Wigeon
40+ Teal
20 + Gadwall
3 Shelduck
13 Greylag Geese

Dover Basin

6 Pochard

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mid morning of note
Dover Basin

single Drake Pintail
12 Goosander
single Drake Pochard

Lightshaw

2 Shelduck
7 Teal
2 Goosander



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30 lesser redpoll from the canal tow path adjacent to Lightshaw Flash today, also 5 shelduck on the flash and 18 goosander on Dover Basin.



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Good number of thrushes feeding this morning with 400+ Redwing, including a very dark Icelandic coburni bird, 100+ Fieldfare and several Song Thrush. A Brambling dropped in calling and 5 Whooper Swan flew SE at 10:20

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Cracking afternoon walk from Plank Lane swing bridge to Dover Lock and back via Lightshaw Lane and Byrom Hall Woods. Shame about the lack of birds, where were all the duck on Lightshaw??, not one in sight, no Egret either. 1 Buzzard and a few Redwing was about all that could be worth mentioning, enjoyable walk still.

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Great White Egret present of Lightshaw Hall Flash today, feasibly been present since it left Pennington Flash last week!

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Noteable sightings from this morning included:

Single Willow Warbler by Dover Basin, Kingfisher too

Wildfowl on Lightshaw Hall Flash included 4 Wigeon, 67 Mallard and 6 Shoveler.



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100 or so hirundines of all three species this afternoon. Swallows by far the most numerous, with House and Sand Martins only present in low numbers. A single Yellow Wagtail flew over the eastern screen. Singles of Buzzard and Kestrel.

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36 Lapwing today on the dust bowl that has temporarily replaced Lightshaw Hall Flash

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Cettis warbler heard where the footpath to the west of Lightshaw meets the canal towpath by the 'pond'. Also sedge warbler heard there and reed warbler seen. A pair of grey partridge were on the footpath to the south of the meadows and a male yellowhammer was seen (and two others heard).



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A Red Kite flew NW through the Abram Flashes and on towards Platt Bridge/Wigan Flashes around 14:09-14:20 (blurry record shot attached). Other birds included 10 Shelduck, 27 Stock Dove and 1 Cettis Warbler. No sign in three hours of an Osprey seen earlier in the day.

-- Edited by dave broome on Saturday 2nd of June 2018 05:59:46 PM

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Quiet this evening. Three redshank, 8 shelduck, 1 Oystercatcher, 3 swifts and a cuckoo about the most interesting things.

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Cetti's warbler still singing from the north side of the canal just east of the Dover Lock pub this morning.

Cuckoo singing at Lightshaw Hall Flash.



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Cetti's Warbler singing on opposite side of the canal just west of Dover Basin. Not a lot else of note.

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Late news for yesterday, singing lesser whitethroat from the canal footpath near the first bridge when heading east from Lightshaw.



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Between Dover Basin and Lightshaw western end today 7 singing Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler 10 Whitethroat, 9 Willow Warbler and 4 Chiffchaff.

6 Greylag Geese at Dover Basin and two broods of Mallard on the canal.



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3 Whimbrel at the western end of Lightshaw at 11am today but departed east at 11:45.

Info thanks to Judith Smith



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Fist time here in over a year for me walked down the canal from Pennington: Green woodpecker just of canal near the bench that looks over the meadow 6 buzzard 4 circling 2 in trees 2 wigeon male and female 2 shelduck 3 oystercatcher 1 female goosander 15 lapwing 20+ teal 10 shoveler

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Post for yesterday.Walked down the lane to Lightshaw from the main road.
In the large field on the right there was a flock of Carrion Crows numbering
around 100.Along the lane itself were.
Collared Dove x2
Starling x4
Blackbird x6
Blue Tit x6
Magpie x6
Black Headed Gull x12
Chaffinch x3
Fieldfare x1
Blackcap x4
Tree Sparrow x2
Pheasant x3
Wood Pigeon x10
Common Buzzard x5
Long Tailed Tit x8
The flash itself was 95% frozen .Therefore nothing on it at all. On the surrounding
fields were
Canada Goose x4
Mute swan x3
Grey Heron x2
moorhen x1
Mallard x8
Coot x10
Cormorant x1


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Late post for yesterday, 3 Pintail and 5 Wigeon amongst the Gadwall and Teal.

-- Edited by Simon Warford on Tuesday 26th of September 2017 07:41:49 PM

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Very very quiet this afternoon viewing from the south eastern screen. A single Wigeon was perhaps the most interesting thing. Singles of Swallow and Sand Martin hinting at what the hirundine flock at the opposite end - 10 or so birds - might have been composed of. Still a large number of Canada Geese, but I've lost patience counting them!

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4 Snipe, 183 Canada Geese and 3 Wigeon this evening. Water levels getting back to normal.

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Water levels very high this evening, but clearly not as high as they have been as many of the adjacent fields had plenty wildfowl in them, mostly out of sight unfortunately. There were well over 200 Canada Geese present. Teal and Gadwall were obviously around as I could hear them but couldn't see them as they fed in the flooded fields. There were also three wigeon present.



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Birds at Lightshaw Hall Flash this evening included 71 Gadwall, 6 Shoveler and 5 Teal



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Late afternoon stroll calling at the eastern screen only. Most numbers are minimum as I only had bins and there were quite possibly/probably more of each species.

Gadwall 65+
Redshank 5
Snipe 3
Teal 4+
Black-headed Gull 76+
Swallow 37
House Martin 11
Shoveler 2
Lapwing 10
Buzzard 2

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Yesterday evening, a grasshopper warbler was reeling distantly from the western screen.



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Lightshaw Hall Meadows

Mid -afternoon visit.

Hobby 1
Buzzard 1

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Lightshaw Flash today.

Almost forgot...
- Redshank 1
- Shelduck family
- Common Tern 4 flew through and then another 2 were put up from a bank that was out of view to us

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Late morning / early afternoon visit to Lightshaw Flash with Simon Gough.

- no sign of Cattle Egret while we were there
- Grey Heron at least 3
- Sedge Warbler 1 along canal
- Whitethroat 3
- Reed Bunting at least 5
- Linnet 1 male
- Skylark 2
- lots of Lapwing
- Stock Dove 4

Nice to meet and chat with Craig Higson.

-- Edited by Rob Creek on Sunday 25th of June 2017 05:30:05 PM

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If adding sightings for this bird could users please ensure they state that the bird is at Lightshaw Flash or not as the case may be. This thread is for the whole of the Abram Flashes which also includes others areas this bird could well relocate to, so it's best not to just let readers assume where the bird is smile



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The Cattle Egret was showing well between 1715 sand 1845 this evening at Lightshaw.

-- Edited by Norman Price on Sunday 25th of June 2017 08:28:02 AM

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Cattle egret just come back to lightshaw,and was still present at 4.30pm



-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Saturday 24th of June 2017 05:50:10 PM

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Cattle Egret just reappeared at Lightshaw at 3:30pm. Currently following cattle away from viewing screen.

 

Info thanks to Mike Chorley



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Lightshaw hall meadow & flash.

Cattle egret showed well when I arrived at 12pm in front of the screen, it took a short flight & returned to the same area. Later on it took flight again with everything else ( didn't see what sent them up) & dissapeared further away & out of view but soon returned & stayed on the spit of the flash until I left at 1.15pm. No signs of any idiots whilst I was there, let's hope he gets named & shamed.
2 shelduck with 9 juveniles
1 redshank
3 grey herons
30+ lapwings
Several house Martins & swifts around.

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Cattle egret flew west apparently over dover lock pub 10 mins ago after leaving lightshaw no signs f me yet

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