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Post Info TOPIC: ASTLEY, CHAT, LITTLE WOOLDEN AND ASSOCIATED MOSSES


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RE: ASTLEY, CHAT AND ASSOCIATED MOSSES


Chat Moss today:

 

1 Greenshank

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Green Sandpiper

26 Pied Wagtail

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 Marsh Harrier

14 Willow Warbler

1 Redstart

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel 



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Little Woolden Moss today:

1 Peregrine

1 Greenshank

1 Yellow Wagtail

2 Little Grebe

1 Kingfisher

2 Nuthatch

2 Hobby

2 Wheatear

 

Chat Moss:

1 Hobby taking dragonflies

1 Swift

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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On Chat Moss today:

 

7 Swift

5 Grey Partridge

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Green Sandpiper

 

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Little Woolden Moss today:

1 Golden Plover over

2 Grey Partridge

 

Chat Moss:

2 Green Sandpiper

12 Grey Partridge

and a burst of song from a Whitethroat

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Chat Moss today:

2 Raven

2 Green Sandpiper

1 Greenshank

2 Willow Tit

1 Hobby

2 Yellow Wagtail

 

Little Woolden Moss:

3 Wheatear

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Today:

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 Greenshank

1 Ringed Plover

1 Hobby

17 Grey Partridge

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Treecreeper

 

Chat Moss:

 

2 Green Sandpiper

1 Grasshopper  Warbler

4 Willow Tit

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Chat and Barton Moss highlights this morning:

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Green Sandpiper

8 Yellow Wagtail

2 Grey partridge

2 Willow Tit

Peregrine

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Croxdens this morning to early afternoon:

1 Greenshank

1 Green Sandpiper

1 juvenile Marsh Harrier harassing a local Buzzard over the pools until the Buzzard's partner came and they saw it off low east

3 Yellow Wagtail over

3 Raven; 2 over together (with some display between them) east and one south

8 Buzzard

1 second calendar year Hobby, chasing (and catching) dragonflies and also sat on the bare peat for a while

360 Swallow feeding over trees by the railway area, just east of Croxdens and possibly sand quarry pool to the north for most of the late morning, which flew into a tight ball on arrival of the Hobby which seemed uninterested in them anyway! Later on towards early afternoon they drifted off SW over a period of time

611 Swift moving over the moss SW with some feeding briefly over the copses and trees on their way but most passing quickly through and mainly fairly low, from mid to late morning until 1pm when things slowed up dramatically and only dribs and drabs moved through

90 House Martin though SW



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Croxdens today:

 

10 Pied Wagtail

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Grey Wagtail

31 Swift over SW 10-00-12-00hrs

1 Green Sandpiper

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 Wheatear

7 Grey Partridge

2 Raven

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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Croxdens today:

 

1 Green Sandpiper

2 Yellow Wagtail

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

2 Wheatear

7 Buzzard

17 Willow Warbler (mainly juveniles)

12 Swift over southwest

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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Croxdens today:

 

1 Green Sandpiper

1 Ringed Plover

17 Pied Wagtail

4 Yellow Wagtail

8 Swifts

Southwest hirundine movement 10-00 - 12-00 included c300 Swallows c70 House Martins c45 Sand Martins

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 Wheatear

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart 



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Croxdens today:

3 Green Sandpiper  

5 Yellow  Wagtail

15 Pied Wagtail

2 1st Summer Hobby

11 Swift

 

Ltitle Woolden Moss:

2 Hobby

5 Kestrel

4 Buzzard

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Croxdens today:

 

1 Wood Sandpiper

2 Green Sandpiper

19 Pied Wagtail

1 Yellow Wagtail 

2 Hobby (adult & 1st summer)

2 Little Egret

 

Chat Moss:

 

19 Yellow wagtail

2 Corn Bunting

42 Linnet 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Croxdens :

 

27 Pied Wagtail

4 Yellow Wagtail

5 Stock Dove

1 Sparrowhawk

1 Green Sandpiper

178 Lapwing

 

Kingfisher on Irlam Pond

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Croxdens today:

 

2 Green Sandpiper

18 Pied Wagtail

2 Yellow Wagtail

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

4 Ravens

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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1 Green Sandpiper on Croxden this afternoon. Otherwise very quiet.

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2 Green Sandpiper and a single Wood Sandpiper present at Croxdens early afternoon today.

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Few hours round Croxdens and Little Woolden Moss this morning and afternoon.

27 lapwing in field off Astley Road on the walk up, 4 singing yellowhammer along Twelve Yards Road (not that I could find any of them), and 4 reed bunting flitting around a bit further along, heading towards Cutnook Lane.

Croxdens:

2 chiffchaff heard calling
5+ willow warbler
3 whitethroat
2 bullfinch
1 reed bunting
10+ swallow
30+ swift
2 stock dove
1 green sandpiper
3 grey heron
1 buzzard

Little Woolden Moss very quiet, I managed a feeble 17 species in roughly two hours (my lowest ever for here):

1 chiffchaff heard calling
3+ willow warbler
3 whitethroat
4+ linnet
1 meadow pipit
1 buzzard

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On Croxdens today were 2 Green Sandpiper and 2 Yellow Wagtail.

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Late news for yesterday:

 

Croxdens:

 

1 Green Sandpiper

 1 Hobby

1 Yellow Wagtail

 

 

Single Siskin over Little Woolden Moss

 

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Fairly quiet again around Rindle Wood and Astley Moss SSSI this afternoon but plenty of juvenile Willow Warblers about the SSSI, many trying their first feeble attempts to sing!



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Croxdens:

 

1 Yellow Wagtail

25 Swifts over southeast

1 Green Sandpiper

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Willow Tit

1 Golden Plover

1 Osprey over

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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A brief visit to Little Woolden Moss today produced 23 Swift and 1 Hobby.

 

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Late news for yesterday:

Croxdens:

 

4  Green Sandpiper

2 Yellow Wagtails 

 

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Highlights from today:

 

Chat Moss:

2 Green Sandpiper

2 Snipe

 

Little Woolden Moss:

35 House Martin

2 Snipe

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel

 

 



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Chat Moss:

 

160 Lapwing

7 Yellow Wagtail

 

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Irlam, Chat, Little Woolden and Barton Mosses this afternoon 16.00-18.00
Very quiet bird wise.

2 Yellow Wagtail
1 Green Sandpiper
6 Grey Partridge- accidentally flushed a family of 2 adults and 4 half-grown young but they could fly a short distance.
50+ Lapwing
3 Jay - including 2 young birds
150+ Starling on telegraph wires
2 Willow Warbler
3 Whitethroat
1 Blackcap - singing
4 Buzzard - including a family party of 3 - 2 fully grown youngsters pestering the adult presumably for food.
1 Kestrel
1 Skylark
7 Linnet
5 Mistle Thrush- family party
A few flocks of Woodpigeons starting to gather.

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Croxdens today:

 

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Green Sandpiper

 

Chat Moss:

 

61 Swift over

 

Barton Moss:

 

5 Yellow Wagtail

 

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Late news for yesterday:

 

Croxdens:

 

18 Pied Wagtail

2 Yellow Wagtail

120 Swift over west

1 Hobby

 

Irlam Moss by Olive Mount Farm:

 

12 Yellow Wagtail on the slurry

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

23 Tree Sparrow

1 Yellow Wagtail

2 Raven

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Chat Moss today:

 

1 Hobby

1 Green Sandpiper

1 Oystercatcher

4 Willow Tit

21 Yellow Wagtail

3 Corn Bunting

2 Tree Sparrow

 

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Croxdens today:

 

2 Green Sandpipers

 

Barton Moss:

 

8 Yellow Wagtail

 

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Single juvenile Yellow Wagtail on muck heap just north of railway crossing along Rindle rd this am also several Tree sparrows

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Croxdens today:

 

1 Green Sandpiper

2 Yellow Wagtail

17 Pied Wagtail

12 Lapwing

1 Oystercatcher

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

88 Lapwing

 

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Some additional sightings for today:

7 Yellow Wagtail on slurry in field 49 on Barton Moss

24 Linnet and 32 Swift on Little Woolden Moss

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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A quick look at Croxdens this am

3 Green Sandpipers
2 Little Ringed Plovers
1 Oystercatcher
1 Lapwing
20+ Black Headed Gulls
and a 1st summer Hobby mobbing a Kestrel for several minutes

On the way past Olive Mount Farm several Yellow Wagtails on the sewage sludge.

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At Croxdens today:

 

14 Pied Wagtail

11 Willow Warbler

1 Sedge Warbler

2 Tufted Duck

2 Oystercatcher

2 Little Ringed Plover

1st summer Hobby

21 Swifts over west

 

Chat Moss:

 

4 Yellow Wagtail

4 Willow Tit

1 Sedge Warbler migrating through

23 Pied Wagtail

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Rindle woods 2 till 3 ish

Common whitethroat X 2

Treecreeper x3 

Great spotted woodpecker (f) not seen one for about 2 years, so I was quite chuffed

No one raptor

Cheers Jay

Dont twitch and drive



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Chat Moss:

 

29 Yellow Wagtail

2 Singing Corn Bunting with a third bird in alarm

2 Oystercatcher

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

5 Yellow Wagtail

11 Tree Sparrow

3 Oystercatcher

2 pairs of Grey Partridge 

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Croxdens today:

 

20 Pied Wagtail

5 Yellow Wagtail

4 Green Sandpiper

3 Oystercatcher

Sedge Warbler

 

2 Willow Tit

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

4 Buzzard

1 Yellow Wagtail 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Chat Moss this morning:

 

2 Green Sandpiper

1 Greenshank

2 Oystercatcher

1 Grasshopper Warbler

1 Sedge Warbler

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Snipe

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 Little Ringed Plover

2 Yellow Wagtail

2 Kestrel

157 Lapwings over west

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Croxden this evening after the rain:

1 Green Sandpiper
3 Oystercatcher - 2 adults and 1 half grown youngster
3 Sedge Warbler - 2 together in a small tree (possibly seemed to be young birds) plus another bird singing nearby.
1 Tufted Duck
4 Willow Warbler- 1 singing
1 Blackcap -singing
3 Whitethroat
4 Sand Martin
c.20 Swift
1 Grey Heron
1 Reed Bunting
1 Skylark- singing
1 Kestrel
2 juv Black-headed Gulls
1 Pied Wagtail
1 Yellow Wagtail - heard only

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Highlights from today.

 

Croxdens:

 

1 Yellow Wagtail

12 Pied Wagtail

2 Oystercatcher

3 Snipe

3 Little Ringed Plover

1 Green Sandpiper

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Little Ringed Plover 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Chat moss this morning:

 

2 Yellow Wagtail

3 Oystercatcher

1 Green Sandpiper

1 Sedge Warbler in song

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

2 Little Ringed Plover

Family party of Willow Tit

 

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Little Woolden Moss this morning:

1 Curlew

1 singing Corn Bunting

7 Yellow Wagtail

3 Llittle Ringed Plover

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Croxdens this morning:

2 Black-tailed Godwit

3 Oystercatcher

1 Ringed Plover

1 singing Sedge Warbler

1 male Ruff

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Chat Moss today:

 

36 House Martin

1 Nuthatch

16 Swift

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

32 Lapwing

1 Ringed Plover

9 Yellow Wagtail

 

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Croxdens today

3 Little Ringed Plover

1 Hobby

15 Pied Wagtail

4 Oystercatcher

 

Little Woolden Moss:

2 Little Ringed Plover

1 Oystercatcher

5 Yellow Wagtail

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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Croxdens today:

7 Little Ringed Plover

3 Oystercatcher

1 Yellow Wagtail

5 Stock Dove

1 Willow Tit

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Chat Moss this morning:

36 Lapwing

2 Oystercatcher

2 Yellow Wagtail

3 Tree Sparrow

1 Green Sandpiper

1 Hobby

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A further sighting from Croxden I forgot to add earlier:
1 Tufted Duck (f) plus a brood of 3 ducklings

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