22/08/2011 - Recieved a report of a probable Lesser Spotted Woodpecker heard calling in Fairywell Wood this afternoon. This isn't far, as the pecker flys, from the Wythenshawe/Northenden territory but it would be nice to think it is more locally resident in the Timperley/Hale Barns area.
-- Edited by Henry Cook on Monday 22nd of August 2011 08:08:00 PM
One just watched from upstairs back window as it flew over the field at the end of the garden from east to west. Field's located between Fairywell Wood and Brooks Drive just south of the housing on Whitebeam & Alder Drives. Didn't look like it was stopping though! House, Timperley & Alty tick! Wonder where me list is.
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Timperley life list c. 89 (ish). Barn Owl 4.11.19, Green Sand 27.8.19, Little Egret 13.2.19, ringtail harrier sp 20.10.18, Fawn Yawn 15.10.18, Grasshopper Warbler 15.4.16, Tree Pipit 13.4.16, Yellowhammer 5.4.15, Hobby May '11, Wigeon Dec '10
7 Tufted Ducks 2 Mute Swans 3 Moorhens 3 Coots 8 Mallards 4 Canada Geese 2 Farmyard Geese 2 Willow Warblers - singing but probably not going to set up home 1 Chiffchaff 1 Blackcap 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers - including 2 males having a stand-off 1 Nuthatch 4 Grey Wagtails - 2 pairs, 1 along the brook further upstream by the golf course
Thursday 17th March, King George 5th pool, 12.15 to 12.45pm:
Mute swan 2 (one with metal ring on left leg - z y 0324 on right leg blue plastic ring - FX 4 ). Treecreeper 1 Tufted Duck 8 Pochard 1 Black-headed Gull 10 Grey Wagtail 1 Moorhen 5 And a male Chaffinch walking around a reflective tin box giving it some aggro!
Kestrel - Hovering around golf course on walkup Singing Robin
Pochard Approx 5 (Drakes) c6-8 ish Goosander - Mixed group of drakes and red heads (Spooked flew off towards Altrincham) Mute swan 2 BH gull, Moorhens, Mallards, Canada Geese, and the 2 Domestic Geese
14/01/2011 - Quick walk around Timperley Wetlands (off Balfour Road) and adjacent Bridgewater Canal this morning. Species seen included:
1 Snipe 1 Moorhen 4 Canada Geese 16 Mallards 2 Common Gulls 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Treecreeper 5 Bullfinches 4 Lesser Redpolls (one rather pale and bulky but only silhouetted views obtained) 1 Reed Bunting
Also with the milder weather many Mistle Thrushes, Song Thrushes, Robins, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Greenfinches, Dunnocks and all Pigeon species singing.
2 Waxwings - on the island trees for a few minutes, flew off low NW 1 Kingfisher 1 Pochard 2 Mute Swans 1 Grey Heron 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 Common Gulls c30 Black-headed Gulls Mallards+Moorhens 2 Treecreepers 36 Siskins 13 Goldfinches 1 Bullfinch
14 Waxwings on Alder Drive, Timperley. Been checking the Rowans nearly every day!
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Timperley life list c. 89 (ish). Barn Owl 4.11.19, Green Sand 27.8.19, Little Egret 13.2.19, ringtail harrier sp 20.10.18, Fawn Yawn 15.10.18, Grasshopper Warbler 15.4.16, Tree Pipit 13.4.16, Yellowhammer 5.4.15, Hobby May '11, Wigeon Dec '10
A wigeon was calling overhead several times in the dark as i got out of the car by the house this evening, right down the end of Ridgeway Road. Bizarre!
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Timperley life list c. 89 (ish). Barn Owl 4.11.19, Green Sand 27.8.19, Little Egret 13.2.19, ringtail harrier sp 20.10.18, Fawn Yawn 15.10.18, Grasshopper Warbler 15.4.16, Tree Pipit 13.4.16, Yellowhammer 5.4.15, Hobby May '11, Wigeon Dec '10