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
18 plus Waxwing flew over tram tracks from Sale in to Timperley at Smith's Fields before congregating near the Sylvan Pub for 20 minutes before flying off west and could not be re-located.
Consolation for watching Luke's team drop 2 points at home!
2 Kingfishers 5 Tufted Duck (family party, ad m, ad fem, imm m & 2 imm fems) 1 GC Grebe 2 Mute Swans 6 Canada Geese 1 Grey Heron c15 bats from 6:45pm, mainly small (presumably Pipistrelle), but at least one larger (? Noctule)
Stamford Park Lake
2 Mute Swans
-- Edited by James Walsh on Friday 15th of October 2010 06:31:42 AM
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4 Redwing over. the garden this morning, and a small movement of Meadow Pipit.
A lone lark sp flew west over the garden low mid-afternoon, presumably a Skylark but it was low and looked small - guess it was just a small low Skylark!
85 Mallard (plus 1 hybrid) 3 Moorhen 2 adult Mute Swans female green ring on left leg, CX70, silver ring on right leg male silver ring left leg, un-ringed right leg
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"recently" (about 2-3 weeks ago) still 4 Tufted Duck (female, 3 juvs, including one much smaller & fluffier than the other 2) & 3 GC Grebe (adult, 2 juvs) on King George V Pool
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