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010726

Chat Moss

2 Little Egret

1 Little Ringed Plover Juvenile

12 Willow Warbler

1 Raven

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Teal

1 Marsh Harrier

14 Oystercatcher

22 Swift

5 Swallow

18 Lapwing

1400 Woodpigeon in numerous flocks flying West.



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Chat Moss

1 Sedge Warbler in song

2 Curlew

1 Yellowhammer

4 Whitethroat

3 Skylark

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

28 Swallow

2 Marsh Harrier

100 Lapwing

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

10 Willow Warbler

5 Meadow Pipit

7 Reed Bunting

3 Snipe

1 Water Rail

55 Lapwing

2 Marsh Harrier...both noted first by Ian Jenkinson

 



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Barton Moss

18 House Martin

14 Swallow

1 Hobby @ 1027

5 Yellow Wagtail

16 Swift

1 Buzzard in alarm

Irlam Moss

Pair of Yellow Wagtail

9 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

110 Lapwing

16 Oystercatcher

 

 



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Brief visit to Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

110 Woodpigeon moving west...noted in only 50 minutes...obviously these birds are on the move

1 Hobby @ 1535

6 Oystercatcher.



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260626...29C-32C

Irlam Moss

1 Sedge Warbler in song

Chat Moss

2 Curlew in alarm

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR 

82 Lapwing

9 Oystercatcher

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Sedge Warbler in song

9 Reed  Bunting

8 Willow Warbler

5 Oystercatcher

1 Hobby @ 1120

1 Water Rail



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A Red Kite high over Croxden late morning.
Also 1 Hobby hawking dragonflies.

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Irlam Moss

Pair Yellow Wagtail

66 Lapwing

8 Swallow

2 House Martin

45 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

16 Herring Gull

Chat Moss

3 Sedge Warbler

1 Golden Plover

2 Oystercatcher

9 Skylark

1 Peregrine...Male

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

17 Oystercatcher

2 Curlew

1 Juvenile Black-Headed Gull

1 Marsh Harrier...Female

 

 



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Chat Moss

1 Curlew

9 Lapwing

1 Nuthatch

18 Willow Warbler

2 Teal

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

96 Lapwing

1 Redshank

15 Oystercatcher



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Irlam Moss

45 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

40 Herring Gull

14 Rook

1 Yellowhammer in song

Cadishead Moss

2 Yellow Wagtail

8 Skylark

1 Yellowhammer
 

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...East

36 Lapwing

1 Curlew

3 Oystercatcher

 



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160626 Glaze Dragonfly Survey + a quiet LWMNR West

Glaze Area

1 Yellow Wagtail

18 Meadow Pipit

14 Swallow

3 Skylark

3 Oystercatcher

1 Kingfisher 

6 Raven 

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Reed Bunting

2 Sedge Warbler

2 Kestrel

3 Oystercatcher



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150626...happily yesterdays Birthday can now be forgotten about...I've been told by Mrs S that its only a number!

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...BBS 3 0f 3

46 Willow Warbler

39 Reed Bunting

21 Meadow Pipit

1 Family Party of Stonechat

2 Sedge Warbler

1 Grasshopper Warbler

1 Curlew

7 Linnet

 

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss

6 Yellow Wagtail

1 Channel Wagtail

2 Mediterranean Gull Flying North @ 1107

1 Marsh Harrier

2 Yellowhammer

2 Grey Partridge

1 Curlew

16 Skylark



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Irlam Moss

33 Lesser Black Backed Gull

21 Herring Gull

Chat Moss

2 Stonechat

2 Oystercatcher

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Red Legged Partridge

1 Tawny Owl

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

12 Swift

5 Oystercatcher

7 Willow Warbler.



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR  in Heavy Rain

21 Willow Warbler

8 Oystercatcher

1 Lesser Redpoll

1 Water Rail

2 Swallow

1 Curlew.

 



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Irlam Moss

32 House Martin

4 Swallow

Barton Moss

2 Grey Partridge

1 Buzzard eating Prey

8 Swallow

2 Bullfinch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

17 Lapwing

1 Curlew in alarm

18 Swift



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Marsh Harrier

14 Willow Warbler

16 Swift

Little Woolden Moss

2 Yellow Wagtail

23 Swift

8 Swallow



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Barton Moss

2 Yellow Wagtail

19  Skylark

7 Swallow---family party

4 House Martin

 



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Little Woolden Moss

22 Swift

1 Oystercatcher

14 Stock Dove

1 Yellow Wagtail

2 Sand Martin

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Sedge Warbler

3 Marsh Harrier---1 Male---2 Female

5 Meadow Pipit in display

3 Oystercatcher

37 Swift

1 Buzzard hovering 

24 Willow Warbler



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Chat Moss

21 Willow Warbler several in alarm

2 Little Egret

2 Bullfinch

6 Lapwing in alarm

1 Reed Warbler

1 Red Legged Partridge

1 Yellowhammer

6 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

44 Swift

1 Marsh Harrier

33 Lapwing

2 Shoveler

1 Stonechat

 



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Little Woolden Moss.

 

A circular walk from the Raven Inn in Glazebury on the Salford Trail footpath this morning. 

 

4 Yellow Wagtails.

Grey Partridge. 

Stonechat.

2 Oystercatchers.

2 Curlew.

Kestrel.

Shoveler.

2 Gadwall on the River Glaze.

 



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Little Woolden Moss

22 Skylark

2 Yellowhammer

4 Grey Partridge

13 Lapwing

2 Lapwing Young

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West

1 White Tailed Eagle...immature @ 1240...it checked out the Reserve then gained Height and flew North



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Astley Moss

3 Yellowhammer

14 Willow Warbler in song

6 Reed Bunting

13 Meadow Pipit

 



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Irlam Moss

2 Yellow Wagtail...Pair

2 Stonechat...Pair

1 Curlew

1 Oystercatcher

1 Raven

1 Cetti's Warbler

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

7 Oystercatcher

27 Lapwing

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss

33 Skylark

3 Grey Partridge

2 Yellowhammer 1c sat Adjacent to a Yellow Wagtail atop a Conifer

4 Yellow Wagtail

7 Mistle Thrush

19 Lapwing

1 Corn Bunting in song

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

45 Swift

1 Marsh Harrier...Male

24 Lapwing

 



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Immature White-tailed Eagle flew low north over Little Woolden Moss at 12:50 today and continued gaining height.

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Chat Moss

1 Snipe

15 Lapwing

29 Willow Warbler

1 Yellowhammer

2 Bullfinch

 

 



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Cadishead Moss

2 Yellow Wagtail

6 Skylark

Irlam Moss

1 Yellowhammer

6 Skylark

5 Swallow

Chat Moss

1 Golden Plover

1 Stonechat

33 Swift

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

90 Swift

5 Oystercatcher

1 Marsh Harrier...Male @ 1220

2 Teal

1 Curlew

1 Water Rail.



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

22 Reed Bunting

25 Meadow Pipit

20 Linnet

9 Sedge Warbler

46 Willow Warbler

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Hobby @ 1235

 

 



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Little Wooden Moss car park to Little Woolden Hall 12:10-14:10

3+ Yellow Wagtail, Corn Bunting, 2 Yellowhammer, Curlew, 30+ Lapwing, 3 Oystercatcher, 2 Kestrel ( one caught a Lizard), 6 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit, 6 Reed Bunting, 100+ Common Swift, 20 Swallow, 5 House Martin, 10 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 2 Common Whitethroat, Common Buzzard, Shoveler, Marsh Harrier.



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Barton Moss

2 Yellow Wagtail

9 Herring Gull

11 Skylark

25 Swallow

18 House Martin

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West

6 Oystercatcher

 



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Little Woolden Moss

18 Skylark

19 Lapwing

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Quail Calling from with Spring Barley Crop

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West

1 Goosander...Female

1 Hobby @ 1150

2 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier...Female @ 1240



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Unusual for me a child free Bank Holiday weekend so getting the binos out. After very early morn to beat the tide at Moore this afternoon I thought the Manchester Mosses were well overdue a good explore.

Full route - New Moss Wood CP over to the Glaze at Wolden Hall. Last week I was there looking for Chanel Wagtail so I though another look and when I was stood next to Holdcroft Lane a Corn Bunting landed on the wires and started singing away. Quite a few Yellow and Pied Wagtails around the Glaze Brook. Hunkering on back to go round the South side of Little Wolden Moss juvenile Linnets, Goldfinch and Swallows were present. LWM NR was fairly quiet; a few Willow Warbler, Black-headed Gulls and a couple Shoveler.

Decided to try a new bit of the mosses and head for Astley Moss to go and look over the sand pits. Well the public footpath was almost impassable due to weeds and nettles from Rindle Road to the railway crossing nettles and weeds up to my knees and I've the stings to prove it. But manged to find a view point over the pits and Oystercatcher (1), Great Black-backed (2), Lesser Black-backed (7) Herring (1) and Black-headed Gulls (20+) were my reward, plus two Shelduck. Back over the railway to Chat Moss gorgeous female Marsh Harrier. Couple Buzzards drifting about and high up Swifts (5).

Back past the farms zig-zagging through past Haphzibah Farm and onto Cadishead Moss more Yellow and Pied Wagtails, more Swallos than I seem to remember in recent years, three or four per field and a couple House Martins also. Sweetest sight, a juvenile Lapwing which must have been taking its first flights, comically getting airborne flying a few yards, doing a barrel roll then falling to the ground, but getting further and higerh each flight. I do believe it was using the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy method of flying, viz; "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, it suggests, and try it."



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR East

5 Oystercatcher

14 Lapwing

1 Curlew

1 Great Black-Backed Gull

1 Coot

2 Hobby @ 1225

3 Shoveler.



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Chat Moss

4 Skylark

7 Lapwing

12 Willow Warbler

1 Marsh Harrier...Male

1 Marsh Harrier...Female

2 Little Egret

2 Teal...Male

1 Sedge Warbler

4 Gadwall

1 Oystercatcher

 



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Little Woolden Moss + Glaze

2 Little Egret

2 Swift

2 Mute Swan

1 Yellow Wagtail

4 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West

13 Willow Warbler

12 Lapwing

1 Water Rail

2 Tufted Duck

6 Sedge Warbler

95 Swift

1 House Martin

1 Reed Warbler

 

 



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190526 Carbon Landscape BBS 3 of 3 SJ6995

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

33 Willow Warbler

3 Sedge Warbler

15 Meadow Pipit

14 Linnet

29 Reed Bunting

1 Lesser Redpoll

1 Curlew

2 Oystercatcher

1 Marsh Harrier

 

 



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Irlam Moss

5 Swallow

2 Stock Dove

Chat Moss

44 Willow Warbler

2 Stonechat

4 Little Egret

21 Swift

8 Reed Bunting

2 Oystercatcher

2 Grey Partridge

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

11 Oystercatcher in one flock

 



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New Moss Wood

2 Garden Warbler in song

6 Willow Warbler

9 Blackcap

1 Sparrowhawk...Male

28 Wren

17 Robin

2 Jay

2 Great Spotted Woodpecker

1 Bullfinch

2 Reed Bunting

Great Woolden Hall/Glaze

1 Little Egret

19 Swallow...including 2 collecting Mud

27 House Sparrow

2 Sand Martin

3 Song Thrush

10 Linnet

Little Woolden Moss West/Glaze

3 Sedge Warbler

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Channel Wagtail

2 Hobby @ 1305...sped through east west

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1255

1 Curlew in Display



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Barton Moss

10 House Martin

16 Swallow

2 Red Legged Partridge

2 Yellow Wagtail

10 Rook

1 Grey Partridge

8 Lapwing

8 Stock Dove

 



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Chat Moss

36 Swift

3 Stonechat

2 Yellow Wagtail

13 Lapwing

1 Wigeon...Drake

11 Skylark

 



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140526 including a Carbon Landscape BBS SJ6895

Little Woolden Moss/Glaze/LWMNR

12 Grey Heron

4 Gadwall

1 Curlew

4 Yellow Wagtail

45 Willow Warbler

10 Reed Bunting

7 Sedge Warbler

2 Reed Warbler

40 Swift

 

 

 



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Irlam Moss

2 Grey Partridge

6 Stock Dove

1 Curlew

1 Yellow Wagtail

11 Skylark

1 Stonechat

160 Starling

16 Lapwing + 2 Young

20 Swift

15 Swallow



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Irlam Moss

140 Starling including Young

2 Bullfinch

12 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR with Ian Jenkinson

300 plus Swift moving west east

1 Hobby

1 Little Egret

2 Marsh Harrier



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Garden Warbler in song

14 Swift

2 Sedge Warbler

21 Willow Warbler in song

2 Hobby @  1140

Great Woolden Moss

2 Curlew

 

 



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Cadishead Moss/Great Woolden Moss

22 Swallow

1 Yellow Wagtail

8 House Martin

26 House Sparrow

2 Shoveler

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Cuckoo calling @ 1105

2 Stonechat in alarm

2 Sedge Warbler

2 Garden Warbler

12 Willow Warbler



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Irlam Moss

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Yellowhammer

1 Oystercatcher

2 Grey Partridge

 



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Irlam Moss

2 Stonechat

6 Stock Dove

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Ringed Plover

1 Willow Warbler collecting Nesting Material

1 Water Rail

4 Tufted Duck

6 Swift

 



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Astley Moss

2 Yellowhammer 

13 Willow Warbler

10 Reed Bunting

7 Meadow Pipit

Little Woolden Moss LWRNR

2 Hobby @1240

 

 

 



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