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Irlam Moss

1 Yellowhammer in song

Cadishead Moss

6 Lapwing on a field which used to host at least 12 Breeding pairs but this has had Winter Crops sown for past few years until this year hence return of the birds to hopefully breed...only downside is this field has been spread with 'Green Waste' in recent years and this was FULL of Plastic hence field looks like a municipal  Tip!

9 Skylark in song

LWT Little Woolden Moss NR

1 Willow Warbler in song

2 Mediterranean Gull )First Noted by Steve Nelson Yesterday)

1 Curlew



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010426 brief afternoon visit

Irlam Moss

1 Swallow

1 Wheatear

LWT Little Woolden Moss NR

19 Lapwing

1 Curlew



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Chat Moss

2 Grey Partridge

1 Curlew

3 Stock Dove

LWT Little Woolden Moss NR

7 Meadow Pipit in Display

5 Reed Bunting in song

1 Curlew

Little Woolden Moss FN56/57/64

26 Lapwing

21 Skylark

2 Oystercatcher



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Two Mediterrean Gulls pointed out to me by Mr Steel this afternoon as well as at least five singing Willow Warblers at the west end of Little Woolden Moss. Two Swallows and a Sand Martin over the barn on the road out of the west end parking area.

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Irlam Moss FN40/41/42

10 Pheasant

2 Grey Partridge

4 Lapwing

55 Meadow Pipit

7 Skylark

1 Song Thrush

1 Lesser Redpoll

2 Herring Gull

Chat Moss

FN19 NE Land

1 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier F Hunting

2 Lapwing

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR with Ian Jenkinson

2 Marsh Harrier...Female

19 Lapwing

2 Oystercatcher

 



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Barton Moss

FN49/50 + 55

10 Skylark in song

3 Lapwing

1 Curlew

3 Reed Bunting

21 Meadow Pipit

FN7/8/9

9 Lapwing

Chat Moss 

FN52

8 Stock Dove

4 Lapwing

50 Linnet

Irlam Moss...very Heavy Rain by now!

FN17

1 Gadwall Male

2 Lapwing

5 Mallard

 



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Little Woolden Moss FN56/57/64 + Glaze

2 Grey Wagtail

27 Lapwing

18 Skylark

2 Mediterranean Gull Flying North-South @ 1140

 

 

 

 



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Irlam Moss Field 21/22...Turf

2 Curlew

3 Herring Gull

1 Skylark in Song

2 Mallard

Chat Moss FN19...Natural England Land

1 Curlew

1 Yellowhammer in Song

1 Lapwing in Display Flight

FN59 NE Land

6 Lapwing 

6 Meadow Pipit

1 Skylark

Little Woolden Moss FN56 +57 + 64

24 Lapwing 

2 Skylark

1 Buzzard

1 Grey Partridge

 



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Cadishead Moss

12 Lapwing which have returned to this particular field because it has for the first time for years been spring and not winter sown.....BUT it is awash with so-called Green Waste spread over past few years which is Plastic strewn ugliness...

1 Yellowhammer

Irlam Moss

1 Black-Tailed Godwit

LWTLWMNR

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Redshank

1 Black-Tailed Godwit

4 Teal

 



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Irlam Moss

29 Herring Gull

14 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

12 Starling

LWTLWMNR

1 Black-Tailed Godwit

1 Redshank

17 Lapwing

1 Curlew

Irlam Moss

1 Common Gull



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Little Woolden Moss + Glaze

6 Teal

3 Oystercatcher

8 Gadwall

1 Nuthatch

1 Curlew

26 Mallard

2 Tree Sparrow

25 Lapwing

LWTLWMNR

26 Lapwing

1 Curlew

2 Greylag Geese

1 Herring Gull

1 Marsh Harrier...Female



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Chat Moss

1 Blackcap in song

1 Nuthatch

1 Snipe

14 Teal

21 Skylark

3 Grey Partridge

65 Linnet

7 Lapwing

2 Stock Dove

LWT Little Woolden Moss NR

1 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier...Female

2 Oystercatcher

1 Lesser Redpoll



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Barton Moss

13 Skylark

1 Snipe

1 Grey Partridge

4 Snipe

1 Stonechat

4 Fieldfare

8 Meadow Pipit

13 Lapwing

LWT Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

35 Lapwing

2 Oysrercatcher

 



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Little Woolden Moss

36 Lapwing

3 Yellowhammer

15 Skylark

1 Curlew

4 Grey Partridge

1 Tree Sparrow

 

 



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Chat Moss

1 Great White Egret

6 Teal

3 Snipe

1 Redwing

1 Water Rail

9 Skylark

16 Lapwing

1 Yellowhammer

1 Curlew

LWT Little Woolden Moss NR

1 Redshank

1 Siskin

21 Lapwing

1 Stonechat



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Chat Moss

2 Curlew

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Redshank

1 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier...Male

17 Meadow Pipit...4 in Display

7 Reed Bunting

2 Teal

3 Snipe

1 Stonechat...Female

 

 



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This afternoon birds of note. 2 x Oystercatcher, 3 x Golden Plover on field behind polytunnel, 89 x Lapwing, 4 x Curlew, 2 x Redshank, 5 x Buzzard, 1 x Stonechat, 4 x Tree Sparrow



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Irlam Moss

4 Grey Partridge

1 Sparrowhawk...Male

8 Skylark in Song

3 Lapwing in Display

1 Snipe

LWMLWTNR

3 Marsh Harrier

1 Redshank

2 Curlew

28 Lapwing

1 Long-Tailed Tit Nest in fork of a birch



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Chat Moss

1 Curlew

36 Stock Dove

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Snipe

2 Oystercatcher

2 Teal

Little Woolden Moss

22 Skylark

48 Lapwing

 



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Barton Moss

5 Skylark in song

4 Lapwing...abysmal numbers now most of the fields checked are now a grass mix....no habitat for the once strong breeding population once held...but we persevere

10 Stock Dove

Irlam Moss

2 Red-Legged Partridge

 



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Little Woolden Moss

22 Linnet

2 Grey Partridge

35 Lapwing

3 Tree Sparrow

4 Buzzard

 

 



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Chat Moss

2 Goldcrest

1 Curlew

24 Starling

2 Rook

LWM

14 Lapwing

LWTLWMNR

1 Curlew

23 Lapwing

2 Oystercatcher

3 Snipe



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Irlam Moss

3 Redwing

4 Stock Dove

28 Rook

11 Lapwing

2 Oystercatcher

26 Lapwing

1 Stonechat

Chat Moss

22 Stock Dove

160 Chaffinch

33 Lapwing

90 Linnet

1 Great White Egret

LWTLWMNR

68 Lapwing

2 Curlew in Display

1 Redshank

30 Pink-Footed Geese Flying North

 

 

 



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Irlam Moss

3 Song Thrush in song

1 Curlew

110 Lapwing

Chat Moss

52 Lapwing

1 Marsh Harrier....Female

8 Teal

8 Skylark

2 Stonechat

3 Great White Egret

7 Greylag Geese

1 Tawny Owl

LWTLWMNR

2 Curlew

72 Lapwing

2 Oystercatcher

1 Redshank

1 Marsh Harrier...Female

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss

1 Yellowhammer in song

22 Linnet

41 Lapwing

2 Grey Partridge

24 Redwing...some in song

26 Skylark

4 Tree Sparrow

LWTLWMNR

120 Lapwing

1 Curlew in display flight

60 Pink-Footed Geese Fling SW

 

 



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Irlam Moss

50 Linnet

1 Fieldfare

Chat Moss

7 Stock Dove

24 Skylark

5 Teal

2 Lesser Redpoll

Astley Moss

16 Greylag Geese

7 Redwing...2 in song

2 Red-Legged Partridge

 

 



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Irlam Moss

450 Starling

Chat Moss

2 Grey Partridge

Little Woolden Moos

36 Lapwing

LWT LWMNR

2 Redshank...in Display

80 Lapwing

2 Oystercatcher

3 Buzzard



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Chat Moss

95 Linnet

45 Chaffinch

1 Yellowhammer

3 Siskin

2 Lesser Redpoll

2 Raven

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

65 Lapwing

2 Curlew...1 in Display Flight

1 Redshank

1 Marsh Harrier...Female

 



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Chat Moss

56 Skylark

55 Lapwing

110 Linnet

7 Grey Heron

1 Raven

1 Marsh Harrier---Female

1 Little Egret

1 Great Egret

2 Lesser Redpoll

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Water Rail Calling

120 Lapwing

2 Oystercatcher

1 Curlew

1 Redshank

 

 



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Friday 6th March PM

Of note...

Off 12 Yards Road

  • Chaffinch/Linnet flock ~100
  • Also contained 1 Redwing

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

  • 15-20 Fieldfares with Starling Flock 
  • 3 Curlew
  • 1 Snipe
  • 17 Whooper Swans on the East pools (4 immature) - still there when I left just after 4


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Chat Moss

130 Linnet

70 Chaffinch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

16 Meadow Pipit with 4 in Display Flight

6 Snipe

1 Raven

2 Oystercatcher

22 Lapwing

1 Marsh Harrier...Female @ 1320

2 Curlew



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Astley Moss

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Sparrowhawk...Female

1 Snipe

25 Lapwing

2 Yellowhammer

1 Tawny Owl

6 Buzzard

30 Fieldfare

2  Goldcrest

Chat Moss

80 Starling

2 Bullfinch

2 Stock Dove



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Barton Moss

13 Lapwing

2 Willow Tit

2 Raven

4 Skylark

950 Starling



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Chat Moss

180 Chaffinch

220 Linnet

5 Lesser Redpoll

1 Great White Egret

1 Little Egret

26 Lapwing

2 Grey Partridge

45 Skylark

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...Brief Visit

22 Lapwing

1 Marsh Harrier

4 Oystercatcher

2 Shoveler

2 Rook

 



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Astley Moss

1 Yellowhammer in song

2 Stonechat

12 Meadow Pipit

4 Buzzard

1 Marsh Harrier

6 Teal

13 Fieldfare

1 Siskin

 



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Irlam Moss

18 Fieldfare

70 Starling

5 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Oystercatcher

28 Lapwing

 



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Little Woolden Moss

2 Grey wagtail

260 Skylark

2 Grey Partridge

65 Linnet

2 Tree Sparrow

35 Fieldfare

55 Pink-Footed Geese

4 Stock dove



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Chat Moss

11 Skylark

8 Lapwing in Display

70 Chaffinch

1 Great White Egret

1 Little Egret

6 Teal

2 Snipe

1 Reed Bunting in song

1 Peregrine

 



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Barton Moss

13 Skylark

5 Snipe

1 Stonechat....Male

4 Redwing

300 Lapwing

3 Buzzard

 



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Irlam Moss

39 Fieldfare

2 Redwing

95 Lapwing

220 Starling

34 Chaffinch

Chat Moss

160 Linnet

3 Kestrel

70 Chaffinch

1 Stonechat....Male

2 Grey Partridge

3 Snipe

1 Great White Egret

1 Little Egret



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Snipe

1 Golden Plover...Flying over

4 Oystercatcher

190 Lapwing

Little Woolden Moss Farmland

160 Linnet

1 Peregrine

170 Linnet

Irlam Moss

60 Stock Dove

130 Linnet

 

 

 



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Chat Moss

80 Linnet

20 Lapwing

25 Chaffinch

80 Starling



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR + Little Woolden Moss

1 Lapwing in display (first for year)

4 Snipe

2 Oystercatcher

9 Rook



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Little Woolden Moss

2 Grey Wagtail

8 Redwing

4 Fieldfare

1 Nuthatch

18 Blackbird

4 Tree Sparrow

5 Stock Dove

150 Skylark

9 Teal

110 Starling



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7 Curlew roosted this evening at Little Woolden Moss

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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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