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200225

Chat Moss

1 Nuthatch in song

45 Fieldfare

60 Starling

16 Lapwing

3 Skylark in song

25 Linnet

22 Teal

2 Snipe

Astley Moss

150 Lapwing

 



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190225

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Woodcock

11 Rook

9 Lapwing

Chat Moss

80 Linnet

10 Lapwing in display



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180225 

Astley Moss

4 Snipe

1 Woodcock

2 Stonechat

1 Willow Tit 

 



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170225

Irlam Moss

65 Starling

31 Magpie

27 Pied Wagtail

Chat Moss

8 Skylark

64 Lapwing

80 Linnet

4 Snipe



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160225

Chat Moss

1 Tawny Owl

36 Teal

28 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East @ 1138

1 Snipe

80 Redwing

1 Great Black-Backed Gull Flying North



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150225

Little Woolden Moss

6 Grey Partridge

70 Lapwing....some in Display...the season begins (I hope)

140 Redwing

20 Fieldfare

1 Brambling

4 Tree Sparrow

90 Chaffinch

 



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140225

Irlam Moss

54 Rook

30 Starling

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Snipe

3 Buzzard

Cadishead Moss

7 Stock Dove

Chat Moss

1 Buzzard

2 Kestrel

14 Chaffinch

6 Snipe

 



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130225

Irlam Moss

14 Magpie

45 Starling

18 Jackdaw

80 Lapwing

2 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

Chat Moss

1 Snipe

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1105

14 Mallard

70 Stock Dove

21 Skylark...these moss wanderings now include quite long periods when there is NOTHING to be seen or heard....and that which is seen is of minimum number and of such limited species spread...but I forever wander in hope that what has been done and is continuing to be done to erase our wildlife in the name of progress might one day stop and renewal of our natural world occurs...dark dreary thoughts but tinged with hope and this sighting of the Skylarks spilling about the air lifted this day into the realms of simple joyous celebration of our natural world...

 



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120225

Irlam Moss

35 Redwing

160 Fieldfare

4 Song Thrush

5 Snipe

6 Skylark

170 Lapwing

100 Starling

19 Meadow Pipit

 



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110225

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Snipe

5 Raven

2 Teal

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

15 Pheasant

 



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300125...Late Record

Chat Moss

40 Lapwing

9 Skylark

6 Stock Dove

1 Corn Bunting....a sad reflection on our times when now on Chat Moss this is an extremely rare bird these days....and all we hear is 'we must concrete our landscape whilst lip service is simultaneously to conservation'...really?

4 Lesser Redpoll

5 Snipe

3 Redwing

 

 



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290125 Late!!! Record

Irlam Moss

600 Jackdaw

Barton Moss

22 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East @ 0952

30 Fieldfare

4 Skylark

1 Raven

2 Pink-Footed Geese Flying South @ 1026

2 Great Black-Backed Gull

Chat Moss

1 Brambling

10 Greenfinch

4 House Sparrow

7 Skylark

13 Chaffinch

10 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West @ 1017

35 Stock Dove

80 Starling

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss NR 12.30-15.30.

1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 4 Ravens and 5 Shelducks.

Also numerous Carrion Crows, one of which was seen carrying an egg.

Despite a bitterly cold East wind blowing a couple of small swarms of Winter Gnats were seen doing

their aerial dance, and they clearly attracted a few garden birds, notably Wrens, Robins and a single Great Tit.

These mini beasts must provide a real lifeline for insect eating small birds, even on the chilliest of winter days.

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Little Woolden Moss this afternoon.... 2 Marsh Harriers hunting over the reserve,but very little else .

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280125 Including a Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count which included some relatively Nature Friendly Farmland +

Little Woolden Moss + The Glaze

16 Teal

9 House Sparrow

50 Linnet

60 Chaffinch

180 Redwing

300 Starling

4 Snipe

 



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270125 Including a Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count...made easy by the lack of birds...again...and again...and again...

Little Woolden Moss

1 Snipe

4 Reed Bunting

250 Jackdaw

30 Rook

5 Skylark.

 

 



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260125

Chat Moss

5 Meadow Pipit

23 Chaffinch

13 Redwing

2 Woodcock

46 Redwing



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250125...Brief Visit

5 Snipe

6 Grey Partridge

14 Meadow Pipit

1 Buzzard



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240125

Irlam Moss

2 Mistle Thrush

70 Black-Headed Gull

2 Grey Partridge

28 Lapwing

600 Starling

6 Fieldfare

105 Redwing



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230125

Chat Moss

3 Snipe

1 Woodcock

2 Buzzard

1 Great Black-Backed Gull

Astley Moss

8 Herring Gull

9 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

25 Teal

3 Great Black-Backed Gull

3 Pink-Footed Geese



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220125

Barton Moss including a Carbon Landscape Winter Bird Count

3 Snipe

3 Stonechat

2 Reed Bunting

3 Common Gull

1 Nuthatch

6 House Sparrow



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210125

Astley Moss

6 Redwing

3 Snipe

1 Marsh Harrier

28 Stock Dove

9 Chaffinch

Chat Moss

170 Pink-Footed Geese



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200125

Irlam Moss

16 House Sparrow

28 Magpie

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Reed Bunting

4 Snipe

140 Pink Footed Geese flying NE @ 1105



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190125

Little Woolden Moss + The Glaze

210 Canada Geese

1 Little Grebe

17 Teal

10 Gadwall

8 Wigeon

18 Mallard

140 Pink-Footed Geese

350 Jackdaw

6 Grey Partridge

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Snipe



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180125

Little Woolden Moss...including the Stewardship Crop @ Whitegate Farm

230 Starling

80 Redwing

30 Fieldfare

250 Woodpigeon

350 Chaffinch

1 Brambling

250 Linnet

175Pink-Footed Geese



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170125

Irlam Moss

750 Starling

90 Redwing

12 Fieldfare

120 Jackdaw

23 Magpie

Chat Moss

1 Hooded Crow

22 Carrion Crow

14 Mallard

1 Goldcrest

40 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East

Astley Moss

7 Great Black-Backed Gull

3 Herring Gull

1 Grey Wagtail

15 Stock Dove

6 Redwing



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Very quiet afternoon stroll Astley Road round to Cutnook Lane in perpetual twilight. Absolute absence of pied wagtails the length of Astley Road. Male stonechat in horse paddocks immediately North of the motorway. Flock of 104 pink-footed geese in the field immediately to the North of Twelve Yards Road, presumably the same birds flying East later on. The hooded crow would have been showing well on the open peat but for the murk and mist so it looked like a disembodied head drifting round the bits of sedge.

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160125

Irlam Moss

1 Water Rail

21 Magpie

Astley Moss

5 Great Black-Backed Gull

150 Mallard

75 Teal

20 House Sparrow

15 Chaffinch

1 Sparrowhawk

2 Grey Partridge



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150125

Irlam Moss

26 Mallard

12 Skylark

3 Shoveler

5 Meadow Pipit

7 Rook

7 Lapwing

95 Fieldfare

5 Redwing

200 Starling

 



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A flock of at least 800 Jackdaws in one field down Moss Lane,Astley ,late afternoon. Also about 10 Red Legged Partridge (almost certainly released birds for shooting)

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Saturday 18th January 2025 Hooded Crow showing well in field 65 on Chat Moss at 11:30 hrs. I walked about 150 metres along north - south path down middle of old Croxden Peat Fields and had great views of Hooded Crow on left hand side.

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160125 am

 

Hooded Crow still on Croxden (FN65) this morning...view easily from the South-North Right of way...



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140125

Chat Moss

5 Great Black Backed Gull

63 Redwing

2 Snipe

1 Buzzard

Barton Moss

44 Redwing

2 Song Thrush

Irlam Moss

11 Lapwing

350 Starling

55 Redwing



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Irlam Moss

1500 Starling

13 Lapwing

240 Black-Headed Gull

80 Redwing

8 Rook

130 Jackdaw

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Raven

1 Golden Plover---Flying South @ Noon

 



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120125...Moss Tracks still Icy and Moss itself still gripped in a wintry shroud

Chat Moss

1 Yellowhammer

2 Reed Bunting

1 Great Black-Backed Gull

6 Rook

2 Bullfinch

3 Song Thrush

3 Redwing



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070125 

Barton Moss

11 Blackbird

1 Stonechat

3 Redwing

Chat Moss

7 Great Black-Backed Gull....some feeding on a dead Sheep

2 Raven....these later came in to join the GBBG in eating the Dead Sheep

750 Jackdaw

170 Chaffinch

30 Redwing

7 Fieldfare

5 Skylark



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060125

Irlam Moss

600 Starling

36 Fieldfare

14 Redwing

5 Great Black-Backed Gull

1 Herring Gull

44 Lapwing

Chat Moss

4 Reed Bunting

1 Yellowhammer

5 Stock Dove

200 Redwing

1 Stonechat

1 Marsh Harrier...Chased by a Carrion Crow

Little Woolden Moss

700 Pink-Footed Geese

 

 



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040125

Little Woolden Moss

900 Pink-Footed Geese

1 Yellowhammer

500 Linnet

120 Chaffinch

1 Brambling

190 Redwing

45 Fieldfare

80 Starling

1 Stonechat



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Hooded Crow again with Carrion Crows on Croxden this morning.

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030125

Irlam Moss

13 Lapwing

68 Fieldfare

143 Redwing

600 Starling

14 Meadow Pipit

Chat Moss

21 Chaffinch 

4 Snipe

1 Raven

1 Marsh Harrier

2 Stonechat

4 Stock Dove

3 Reed Bunting

 



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020125

New Moss Wood

2 Treecreeper

11 Wren

10 Robin

1 Chiffchaff

4 Bullfinch

2 Coal Tit

1 Goldcrest

Great Woolden Hall/Glaze

3 Mistle Thrush...1 in song

170 Canada Geese

600 Lapwing flying over

22 Teal

5 Fieldfare

23 House Sparrow

Cadishead Moss

7 Grey Partridge

 



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Afternoon visit

Little Woolden Moss NR

2 Buzzards, including a huge (Probable female)Light Phase bird.

2 Kestrels.

A flock of 30 Fieldfares(Resting in birch woodland along the Southern boundary).

1 Marsh Harrier(Flew in from the Glazebrook direction as I was leaving and the light was fading fast).

A group of 160 Canada Geese amongst the sheep in a field on the Cheshire side of the River Glaze.



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C1000 Pink Footed Geese circled over Little Wooldon Moss and Irlam Moss then came west and landed west of LWM and slightly east of Holcroft Lane at 12pm 



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Hooded Crow still on Croxden at about 12:45 with lots of other crows - not always easy to see simply because the "bumpy" terrain gets in the way

Fieldfares and Redwings in various fields

Marsh Harrier briefly seen at the reserve - against the light so couldn't tell the sex

Pink-footed Geese - flock of somewhere between 500-1000 (rough estimate) between the Glaze and the Culcheth Road - sort of up the hill from the "normal" flock of Canada Geese



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010125

Irlam Moss

6 Snipe

3 Song Thrush

9 Blackbird

36 Fieldfare

60 Redwing

148 Lapwing

1050 Starling

365 Black-Headed Gull

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

28 Pink-Footed Geese

Chat Moss 

40 Starling

 



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The Hooded Crow on Croxden again early afternoon today.

Yesterday: A good sized flock of large gulls on the flooded peat after the heavy overnight rain contained 46 Great Black-backed Gulls, 80+ Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 11 Herring Gulls late afternoon before all flying off to roost elsewhere.

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Little Woolden Moss...including the Glaze

61 Mallard

14 Teal

12 Great Black Backed Gull

22 Wigeon

38 Fieldfare

170 Chaffinch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

800 Pink-Footed Geese

1 Marsh Harrier



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Chat Moss

1 Peregrine

15 Linnet

18 Chaffinch

6 Snipe

1 Chiffchaff

4 Teal

Irlam Moss

900 Starling

26 Fieldfare

12 Redwing

18 Meadow Pipit.



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Hooded Crow still on Croxden at midday but nearer to the railway

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Hooded Crow mid-morning foraging the former Croxdens peat works and occasionally flying in to adjacent copse, viewed from end of track running NNW from Twelve Yards Road, with c30 Carrion Crow, 8 Rook and Jackdaws.
1 Peregrine circling the area
52 Fieldfare & 3 Redwing feeding along Cutnook Lane in field 2, plus c115 Starling around fields 2&3

-- Edited by dave broome on Monday 30th of December 2024 01:00:44 PM

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