Little Woolden Moss today:

 

70 Meadow Pipit

195 Skylark

2 Raven

11 Pied Wagtail

10 Swallow

3 Greylag Geese

 

Croxdens:

 

1 Green Sandpiper

 5 Snipe

8 Pied Wagtail

1 Willow Tit

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart

Little Woolden Moss today:

 

38 House Martin in small flocks heading South

4 Chiffchaff

13 Swallow

117 Skylark

1 juvenile female Peregrine

23 Grey Partridge

145 Lapwing

62 Linnet

56 Meadow Pipit

5 rapidly low flying Dunlin heading south

 

Info thank to Dave Steel

Irlam Moss today:

34 Pied Wagtail

22 Skylark

2 Snipe

1 Grey Wagtail

20 Grey Partridge

 

Little Woolden Moss:

46 Meadow Pipit

26 Swallow

42 Skylark

1 Grey Wagtail

2 Chiffchaff

1 Hobby taking Dragonflies before racing off South

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel

Ltitle Woolden Moss today:

11 Snipe

4 Chiffchaff

42 Meadow Pipit

 

Chat Moss:

27 Pied  Wagtail

2 Willow Tit

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel

Chat Moss today:

 

1 Wheatear

3 Snipe

11 Chiffchaff

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel

Little Woolden Moss 15.00-17.45

The large shallow pool near the path on South side of the has largely dried up, so sadly no waders were found.

5 Pied Wagtails were the only birds on the moss, except for a dozen crows.

However, throughout my visit there was a steady passage of Swallows, together with lesser numbers of House Martins

and at least 3 Sand Martins, all heading West.

2 Buzzards were seen over the moss, whist a third sat in the middle of a newly ploughed field alongside Astley Road.

Croxdens today:

 

5 Buzzard

1 Nuthatch

10 Swallow over southwest

1 Green Sandpiper

 

Irlam Moss Fisheries:

 

1 Spotted Flycatcher

6 Chiffchaff

2 Snipe 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel 

Chat and Irlam Mosses this afternoon

1 Willow Tit
Family party of 4 Buzzard
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
2 Jay
A few Swallows and House Martins around

Croxdens today:

 

1 Green Sandpiper

150 Lapwings

3 Willow Tit 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart, Dave Steel and myself 

Croxdens today:

 

Juvenile Peregrine carrying Woodpigeon

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

2 Wheatear

1 Stonechat

2 Willow Warbler

1 Raven  

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart

Chat Moss today:

 

1 Marsh Harrier

2 Willow Tit

1 Peregrine

10 Chiffchaff

4 Willow Warbler

 

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

2 Golden Plover

11 Buzzard

 

 

Croxdens:

 

2 Green Sandpiper

3 Raven

 

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 juvenile Marsh Harrier (untagged)

 

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart

Day spent around Little Woolden Moss and Croxdens today; small species list, but some notable ones. Nice to see the Daves again.

Little Woolden Moss:

3+ chiffchaff
2 willow tit (at least one a juvenile)
1 spotted flycatcher
6+ linnet
1 reed bunting
16 meadow pipit
64 carrion crow in fields to W.
2 golden plover (over, then seemed to drop in field to N)
1 snipe
2+ kestrel
2+ buzzard
1 marsh harrier (green wing-tagged individual noted below)

Croxdens; quite quiet:

Good sized mixed flock comprising of blue tit, great tit, long-tailed tit and chiffchaff.
2 linnet
3 swallow
2 jay heard
1 grey heron
1 kestrel
1 buzzard

Of the most note on the walk up Astley Road in the morning: 21 pied wagtail all on the same turf field, 1 raven, 3 kestrel and a juvenile buzzard repeatedly calling. Nine mistle thrush on the way back.

Little Woolden Moss:

 

5 Snipe

1 Nuthatch

1 Treecreeper

1 Hobby

5 Yellow Wagtail

45 House Sparrow

Green wing-tagged (from Norfolk?) Marsh Harrier

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel 

On Little Woolden Moss today:

 

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Redstart

1 Little Ringed Plover

1 Snipe

 

Whilst on Chat Moss:

 

16 Grey Partridge

1 Hobby

1 Green Sandpiper

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel

Chat Moss today:

 

3 Swift

1 Greenshank

2 Willow Tit

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 Peregrine

1 Wheatear

1 Marsh Harrier

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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