Early afternoon today.

- Yellow-legged Gull 2
Same 2 individuals present at Smithfield Market fish units late lunchtime.
Looks like the single individual I found here on 11th July (posted on this thread) is also one of the 2 birds that are currently present on an almost daily basis, cheers Ian.


-- Edited by Rob Creek on Wednesday 2nd of August 2017 10:45:27 PM

Sparrowhawk, south down Fairfield Rd Openshaw @ 06:35

Good numbers of Swift this evening over Westleigh Estate, Leigh. Two large groups, one group at the top of Westleigh Estate 20 plus birds. The other group at the bottom, yates street area again 20 plus birds.

Tuesday 25th July
2.20pm Currently no fewer than 4 Yellow-legged Gulls (adults) flying round and perched up on rooves / lamp-posts in Smithfield Market, Openshaw.
Possible younger birds present too!
Will attach images later.
Cheers As of 2.38pm make that 5 adult (or near adult types) Yellow-legged Gulls. Tried to take images of the individuals in their different locations with same time stamp, but some were quite mobile.

-- Edited by Rob Creek on Tuesday 25th of July 2017 03:17:09 PM

Two Herring Gulls alighted on a Ford Fiesta parked in the nearly empty
Middlebrook Retail car park, Bolton at 10.15 this am.
The Gulls then dropped down and attacked the car with their beaks.

This afternoon whilst collecting frozen fish produce from a unit on Smithfield Market in Openshaw.

- Yellow-legged Gull 1 adult
Certainly looks good for it, quite mobile around the units. I will attach images later. If it's not one then I will amend the post accordingly and walk away with my tail between my legs!

-- Edited by Rob Creek on Tuesday 11th of July 2017 08:02:57 PM

Grey Wagtail juveniles, one on the flat roof of Topaz Dance Studio the other on the parking space below (Kingsway side) asking to be fed. Two adults back and forth over Kingsway from Topaz to the roofs around Stretford Civic Theatre .

Redgate Recycling this afternoon.

33 (at least) Lesser Black-backed Gulls
2 Herring Gulls
All sat together on the 384 roof.

Good numbers of Swift over Westleigh estate Leigh this morning 30+ easy, few House Martin knocking about also.

First Swift of the year for me this morning as a solitary bird flew over the works yard in Reddish, Stockport.

In the scrub surrounding the works yard...
1 Chiffchaff
1 Willow Warbler
1 Blackcap
All 3 birds given away by them singing.

Astley East lancs cycle track

2 Lesser Whitethroats singing today 1 adj lamp column 74 and one singing near Zest Indian takeaway.

 

Jimmy

 

 

-- Edited by Jimmy Meadows on Thursday 27th of April 2017 08:57:27 PM

First whitethroat of the year today at the area I watch off Crime Lane outside Ashton.

Also a couple of brief reels from a grasshopper warbler, and a green woodpecker heard. As well as being a patch first, that's the third I've heard this month, having previously never had one in the north; funny how it goes. Also about: chiffchaff, willow warbler, blackcap, linnet, stock dove, lapwing, kestrel.

-- Edited by Shannon Llewellyn on Saturday 22nd of April 2017 08:55:30 PM

Hobby over fields adjacent to East Lancs Westbound carriageway between Greyhound roundabout and Atherleigh Way @ 10.40

Willow Warbler in my garden today (Withington)

House Martins back on territory at Spring View Wigan tonight.

Jimmy

single Swallow on telephone wire at end of my street half way between Pennington Flash and Bickershaw Rucks @ 07.15 as I headed to Rucks

1 Swallow sat on telegraph wires along Peel Green Rd, Peel Green at 10.25am this morning.

Juvenile Iceland Gull briefly at Redgate Recycling this afternoon 3pm.
It circled over the 384 building but didn't land then headed off east with 2 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls (possibly to Audenshaw Res?)

A male Pheasant was on the roof of a terraced house by the traffic lights at Marus Bridge, Wigan this morning

Male Bullfinch seen from the office window at Abraham Moss this morning. A 'from the office' tick

Chiffchaff singing from gardens in Brundretts Road, Chorlton this afternoon.

Info thanks to Tony O'Mahony

Juv Iceland Gull flying low around Redgate Recycling, Redgate Lane, West Gorton, with other large gulls at 13:20, which all appeared from the other side of Hyde Road. Subsequently sat with 30-odd other large gulls and 210 Black-Headed Gulls on the roof the Stoodley site, under construction and viewable across Hyde Road from Donnison Street

 

-- Edited by dave broome on Wednesday 8th of March 2017 01:50:57 PM

Buzzard over Didsbury village about 14:00

Cheers Steve.

A few tips for anyone visiting Redgate Recycling in Gorton. (hope you don't mind Ian).
They are building new properties on the land directly opposite the main recycling plant and if the Gulls are not on the 384 roof overlooking the main yard then it is worth checking the 'muddy foundations' behind 384 that is being prepared for building on, the Gulls do frequent here often, and another roof near Pottery Lane.
There is no general public access to any of the areas here that I know of and I would advise view ONLY from what I call the 'Triangle'...
Hyde Rd, Pottery Lane, and Redgate Lane form a triangle.
Failing that, they do scare the Gulls off routinely, so they could be at Smithfield Market a few minutes away!