Raven - 2 flew over towards Sale Water Park

Kingfisher - 1 flew from NW towards Broad Ees Dole

Sparrowhawk - 1 one displaying

Willow Warbler 1
Snipe 2

Jack Snipe 2
Common Snipe 1
Reed Bunting 9
Chiffchaff 1

Kingfisher twice in the last few days

Woodcock 1
Chiffchaff 1
Siskin 1
Reed Bunting 2

House Martin 2
Sand Martin 1
Stock Dove 4 over
Buzzard 1
Chiffchaff 1
Blackcap 1
Reed Bunting 3m 1f

2 buzzard
1 sparrowhawk
1 chiffchaff
3 reed bunting
1 jay
3 meadow pipit ,over

5 Meadow Pipit on the flood plain.

Willow Warbler on Hawthorn Lane yesterday - sang once very quietly.

Also Hawthorn Lane, singing Song Thrush - deafening! Blackcap singing close by, plus at least 3 Chiffchaff also in full voice.

This afternoon

1 Swallow - my first of the year
No waders today

This afternoon with Tony Darby

Little Ringed Plover 2
White Wagtail 1
Pied Wagtail 1
Snipe 2
Meadow Pipit 7
Teal 11

1 Treecreeper
1 Reed Bunting
15 Teal
3 Tufted

2 Little Ringed Plover
2 Snipe
1 Lapwing
1 White Wagtail
4 Pied Wagtail
Teal

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 3rd of April 2013 04:12:16 PM

male Stonechat still
2 Buzzard over

steven burke wrote:

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21 lapwing
26 teal
2 tufted duck
2 moorhen
1 meadow pipit
10 redwing, over

on the river..

1 male stonechat, rock hoping and flycatching, occasionally flying over to the sale water park side.
2 grey wagtail
1 pied wagtail

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Nice to run into you Steven . Thanks for sending me back for the Stonechat - rather an excellent bird for the site. And my first regular spring migrant Chiffchaff of the year

24.3.13

8 meadow pipits
22 teal
2 grey heron
2 moorhen
1 goldfinch
1 pied wagtail

info thanks to phil Kelly.

7 shoveler
2 teal
2 stock dove
34 Canada goose

6 Snipe visible
1 Lapwing
6 Shoveler
23 Teal
1 Tufted Duck (dry wier)
5 Redwing

7 Snipe
30 Teal
7 Shoveler
1 Tufted Duck on the dry wier
1 Sparrowhawk

1 Common Sandpiper at the muddy pool
2 Little Grebe at the dry wier

i am posting this on stretford and chorlton ees as we heard it more on the chorlton side but also on the stretford side to begin with. A CUCKOO we trailed it for a good two hours (we can't believe it as we are planning a trip to Rindle Road to see or hear the one there!) now to be specific about where we SAW it, we walked down the mersey (on the stretford side) until you come to the bridge over the little stream from there we took the left hand fork down the small path and heard it first there! (brandon heard it i laughed at him then ate my laugh as i heard it) it called for 4 or 5 times then deadly silence ( and doubts from both of us ) i asked a courting couple who were in the football field just off from the path and they said they had heard it for at least half an hour) we stood motionless waiting for about 10 mins and then again we heard it and over the next hour or so traced it to a small area to the right of the football pitches. we walked through this area examining every tree listening and finally we both saw it Brandon first then me although i only saw it as Brandon was trying to photo it unsuccessfully( maybe not we have 1 photo that shows something similar to a cuckoo but not conclusive)I watched it fly across the path behind us over the green bench which is on a path parallel to our original path (there are many paths here tbh) the section of woodland we saw it in has an old burnt out car in it that must have been there years! we heard a gropper nearby and saw grey wagtails as well as the usual stuff for this area. But tbh we were like a pair of demented idiots asking people if they heard it (which they had ) one chap walks his dog there every night and never has he heard one there before. i recorded it on my phone although it is very quiet in the background of a lot of other bird as it was very gloomy and almost dark by the time i thought of it!

-- Edited by brandon mulhern on Monday 20th of April 2009 08:59:22 PM

8 Teal
2 Shoveler
79+ Magpie

The small hybrid goose of questionable parentage which frequented Didsbury golf course last winter, and documented in the local rag 'The South Manchester Reporter' on 03.01.08, was present with Canadas' on the river bank opposite the dry wier (behind Broad Ees Dole). The first time I've seen it. Small size. dark, blackish/brown plumage, white face with black spot on cheeks, white vent, bright orange legs and feet and small pink beak. Very odd

2 male Wheatear reported this morning (Steve Cummings)

viewed from the sale side of the river so part of the field and pool was obscured.

82+ Magpie
5 Teal
1 Lapwing