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Barton Moss

190 Starling

180 Lapwing

2 Golden Plover



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Irlam Moss

25 Meadow Pipit

3 Snipe

2 Skylark

Chat Moss

7 Redpoll

70 Stock Dove

1 Curlew Flying Over

150 Linnet

120 Chaffinch

1 Great White Egret

19 Skylark

9 Reed Bunting

Little Woolden Moss

1800 Pink-Footed Geese...most heading East

90 Skylark



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Six lesser redpolls came in to roost in the willow plantations on Twelve Yards Road at dusk.

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2 Short Eared Owls showing well this afternoon hunting over field 19 all afternoon.


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Saturday 14th February 2026. 09:30 - 12:00 hrs.

Little Woolden Moss NR, Little Woolden Moss and section of River Glaze.

No binoculars so quite pleased with 'naked eye' sightings which included:

Lapwing (6)
Curlew (1)
Goosander (2)
Stonechat (2)
Oystercatcher (2)
Buzzard (2)
Kestrel (2)
Dunnock (1)
Cormorant (1)

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Birds today, late afternoon at Astley Moss included:
54 Fieldfare and 170 Starling feeding in a mixed flock
28 Pheasant
20 Red-legged Partridge
3 Buzzard
13 Chaffinch

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Late morning/early afternoon today.

Astley Moss East Sand Lake:

64 Wigeon

13 Shoveler

1 Oystercatcher

1 immature (2CY) Peregrine through

Croxdens:

Great White Egret flushed and chased off west by Crows at 12:05

1 Little Egret

1 Woodcock

Astley Moss:

60 Redwings in the edge of field 68

3 Red-legged Partridges in field 68, recent releases for shooting



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Early afternoon on Astley Moss East Sand Lake:

8 Shoveler

48 Wigeon

11 Tufted Duck

2 Goldeneye

2 Little Grebes

47 Great Black-backed Gulls

11 Lesser Redpolls together

56 Chaffinches

 



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Chat Moss

180 Linnet

27 Skylark

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Little Egret

3 Snipe

450 Pink-Footed Geese flying West

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Marsh Harrier...Female



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Little Woolden Moss

80 Fieldfare

50 Redwing

2 Tree Sparrow

14 Stock Dove

500 Pink-Footed Geese

75 Linnet

130 Skylark

3 Grey Partridge



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Astley Moss

2 Raven

4 Snipe

500 Pink-Footed Geese

Chat Moss

200 Jackdaw

2 Stonechat

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss + LWT Little Woolden Moss Nature Reserve + Glaze

10 Teal

9 Stock Dove

1 Little Grebe

15 Mallard

2 Tree Sparrow

10 House Sparrow

3 Gadwall

75 Fieldfare

3 Great Black-Backed Gull

30 Redwing

31 Skylark

3 Snipe

1 Marsh Harrier

 



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Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier

20 Linnet

3 Grey Partridge

45 Chaffinch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Snipe

1 Marsh Harrier

Little Woolden Moss

165 Skylark

70 Linnet

7 Pink-Footed Geese



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Chat Moss

200 Chaffinch

12 Stock Dove

35 Goldfinch

 



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Irlam Moss

1 Snipe

2 Stonechat

Chat Moss

150 Chaffinch

1 Marsh Harrier (Male) Chased by Carrion Crows

8 Meadow Pipit

 

 



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2 Short Eared Owls hunting over field 19 on Little Woolden Moss mid afternoon today.

 



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On the Astley Moss East Sand Lake this late morning were 67 Wigeon, 244 Teal and 3 Goldeneye.



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Little Woolden Moss

115 Skylark

4 Grey Partridge

4 Tree Sparrow

2 Great Black-Backed Gull

2 Grey Partridge

200 Fieldfare

65 Redwing

120 Starling

4 Stock Dove

 



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Barton Moss

2 Raven 

70 Teal

115 Lapwing

2 Wigeon

7 Great Black-Backed Gull

Chat Moss

2 Lesser Redpoll

5 Stock Dove

5 Snipe

 

 



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170126...with Dave Stewart/Steve Nelson/Steve Atkins....

A 'survey/check of the NE NNR on Irlam + Chat Moss

Birds Noted...a basic list 

150 Chaffinch

55 Skylark

35 Meadow Pipit

2 Kestrel

1 Stonechat...Male

12 Linnet

8 Stock Dove

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss + Glaze

23 Mallard

2 Teal

10 Fieldfare

400 Pink-Footed Geese

22 Rook

3 Snipe



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Chat Moss

5 Grey Partridge

70 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Marsh Harrier...Male

1 Snipe

Chat Moss

4 Bullfinch....Male

175 Chaffinch



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Irlam Moss

19 Skylark

Chat Moss

250 Chaffinch

350 Linnet

2 Bullfinch

90 Skylark

900 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West

2 Fieldfare

1 Marsh Harrier....Male

 

 

 



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130126...brief visit

Chat Moss

200 Chaffinch

Irlam Moss

135 Starling

 

 

 



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Irlam Moss

14 Stock Dove

2 Grey Partridge

34 Meadow Pipit

5 Redwing

6 Snipe

 



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Astley Moss East Sand Lake this early afternoon:

364 Teal

7 Shoveler

14 Gadwall

51 Wigeon

1 Little Grebe

166 Great Black-backed Gulls

161 Herring Gulls

1 first winter Caspian Gull, bathing until it flew off west at 13:25

1 Raven over east



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New Moss Wood

12 Great Tit

1 Treecreeper

11 Blackbird

2 Nuthatch

7 Siskin

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

3 Redwing

Cadishead Moss

75 Lapwing

3 Grey Partridge

75 Chaffinch



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Little Woolden Moss + Glaze

1 Nuthatch

1 Marsh Harrier

3 Goosander...1 Male 2 Female

9 Teal

11 Lapwing

2 Grey Partridge

170 Skylark

200 Starling

4 Redwing

1 Merlin...Female

4 Tree Sparrow

9 House Sparrow

LWTNR

135 Lapwing 

3 Pink0-Footed Geese

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss

21 Linnet

95 Chaffinch

2 Raven

16 Reed Bunting

110 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West

2 Jay

10 Grey Partridge



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Chat Moss

75 Chaffinch

45 Linnet

5 Redwing

4 Grey Partridge

1 Grey Wagtail

 

 



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Approx 80 Greylag Geese feeding in the grassy field just east of Rindle cottages. Had a good look through them with the scope unfortunately nothing rarer with them. Also a small mixed flock of Fieldfare and Redwing in the area.

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Tydesley sewage works ..... again at least 5 Chiffchaff feeding on and around the filter beds. One possibly could be a Sibe but unfortunately views are brief so couldnt be sure,and none were calling. Also on and around the filter beds,3 Reed Bunting, several Long Tailed Tits and 20 + Pied Wagtails. A single Grey Partridge was on fields at back of the works. By the way Dave,the filter beds are exactly the same as when you used to visit site,looks brilliant for nesting birds.

-- Edited by pete berry on Saturday 10th of January 2026 12:40:04 PM

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Barton Moss

16 House Sparrow

2 Great Black-Backed Gull

1 Great White Egret...Flying High and heading South

Chat Moss

125 Chaffinch

60 Linnet

 

and in reference to Pete Berry sightings on Tyldesley sewerage Farm...what memories that invoked from my teenage wanderings in the 60's with my friend

Les Colley...Pied Wagtail Nests  within the structures of the circular filer beds...These filter beds were built with bricks which had spaces for nests...the Man in charge saying yes the birds like the farm for feeding as the deposit beds have 'Globular Fat'...???? The Green Sandpipers that 'always appeared in late July early August along the adjacent brook...and the time Les encouraged me to join him in wading through the settling beds...NOT a safe thing to do EVER...to prove that the Black headed Gulls were breeding at the time on the Farm...sadly Les a brilliant naturalist has now gone...but such positive memories of days when birds really were plentiful!!!



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At Tydesley sewage works(which is in Astley) at least 5 Chiffchaff feeding on the circular beds. Also several Meadow Pipits and Pied Wagtails feeding there as well. Nearby about 20 Fieldfare,a flock of 9 Grey Partridge,a Buzzard and a single Common Snipe

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Chat Moss

14 Blackbird

120 Chaffinch

300 Linnet

3 Redwing

12 Stock Dove

70 Skylark

3 Snipe

 



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Little Woolden Moss + Glaze

18 Teal

28 Starling

1 Little Grebe

450 Pink-footed Geese

200 Skylark

64 Linnet

240 Lapwing

160 Chaffinch

12 Reed Bunting

2 Tree Sparrow

10 House Sparrow

Irlam Moss

340 Linnet

80 Chaffinch

 

 



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Irlam Moss

1 Sparrowhawk...Female

9 Meadow Pipit

6 Snipe

36 Starling

9 House Sparrow

450 Starling

Little Woolden Moss

400 Pink-Footed Geese

 



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Highlight today around Astley Moss East Sand Quarry Lake were four Cattle Egrets which came in from the west and veered S/SE across the railway and off out of view.

Also present on the lake were 266 Great Black-backed Gulls, 214 Herring Gulls, 282 Mallard, 13 Shoveler, 64 Teal and a Little Grebe.

Around Rindle, c170 Meadow Pipits were in a flock feeding in the grass of field 67, 121 Greylag Geese were loafing in field 68, a Snipe was flushed from the ditch along field 67 and 2 Treecreepers were also along the edge of the field there. A further c15 Meadow Pipits were feeding in fields behind Rindle Wood though there were probably many more.



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Barton Moss including a Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count

8 House Sparrow

10 Meadow Pipit

1 Snipe

1 Stonechat...Male

60 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West

23 Lapwing

Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier

26 Lapwing



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Little Woolden Moss 

130 Chaffinch

1 Raven

80 Linnet

7 House Sparrow

1 Tree Sparrow

2 Grey Partridge

180 Skylark

600 Pink-Footed Geese

1 Goosander---Male

8 Teal

 



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Including a Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count again!

Little Woolden Moss/Glaze/Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

250 Pink-Footed Geese

2 Marsh Harrier

20 Teal

1 Merlin...Male

1 Grey wagtail

90 Skylark

2 Stonechat

 



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Including a Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count onLWM

Chat Moss

1 Grey Wagtail

90 Chaffinch

Little Woolden Moss/Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Grey Partridge

2 Lesser Redpoll

4 Snipe

16 Pink-Footed Geese

150 Skylark

40 Linnet

 



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Great White Egret was a nice surprise on field near Barton Aerodrome this afternoon

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Sorry to hear about your accident, Dave. 

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Steve



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Barton Moss

90 Jackdaw

90 Pink-Footed Geese

Chat Moss

19 Chaffinch

2 Stonechat

3 Song Thrush

46 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East

36 Linnet

Irlam Moss

350 Starling



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Little Woolden Moss

13 Herring Gull

2 Great Black-Backed Gull

19 Stock Dove

70 Starling

130 Chaffinch

200 Linnet

170 Pink-Footed Geese

 



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201225

A tentative drive round moss after an enforced 'rest' from it...causation a deep unseen hole filled with water to chest which also involved a broken right fibula...its a tad unsafe out on the Moss...only taken me a great number of decades to discover this fact!

Irlam Moss

80 Goldfinch

16 Black-Headed Gull

1 Buzzard

Chat Moss

25 Linnet

20 Chaffinch

3 Skylark

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR - Fri 26th December, middayish

On the reserve extremely quiet, hardly anything about besides Robins, Crows, party of Long-tailed Tits and a Goldcrest

BoP seen from the reserve (or the "car park" at the east end) - Kestrel & Marsh Harrier (M)

Over a month since last post from Dave Steel which is unusual - is he away? or unwell?



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Chat Moss

2 Lesser Redpoll

2 Snipe

1 Marsh Harrier...Male

 



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Irlam Moss

23 Chaffinch

1 Lesser Redpoll

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Snipe

7 Skylark

Little Woolden Moss

300 Skylark

120 Starling

200 Linnet

1 Stonechat...Male

 

 



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