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070725

Irlam moss

46 Rook

19 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

2 Oystercatcher

18 Swallow

21 Swift

4 House Martin

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

7 Meadow Pipit

15 Lapwing

1 Yellow Wagtail...Juvenile

 



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Barton Moss

16 House Martin

28 Swallow

50 House Sparrow

4 Yellow Wagtail

12 Reed Bunting

75 Starling

2 Sedge Warbler

11 Swift

1 Buzzard

 

 



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Irlam Moss

2 Oystercatcher

10 Swallow

2 Grey Partridge

Cadishead Moss

4 Yellow Wagtail

300 Woodpigeon

16 Swift



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Chat Moss

6 Green Sandpiper

9 Willow Warbler

1 Water Rail

 



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brian fielding


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No sign of corncrake up until 22.20

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Andy Isherwood


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Still no further sound of Corncrake by 2.20 pm at least.

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The missus has heard a Corncrake calling this morning in the field on the rhs from north end of Rindle Road, Astley Moss at approx SJ 70325 98436. No sign of it in last 25 minutes,might be better mid evening for it calling.



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12:30 hrs 7th July: Green Woodpecker flying low above field to south west of Whitegate Farm (Little Woolden Moss). First for me on Mosses.

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Little Woolden Moss

2 Yellow wagtail

7 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR Including two Carbon Landscape Dragonfly Surveys

1 Little Egret

3 Oystercatcher

Family Party of Stonechat

61 Lapwing

1 Sedge Warbler

2 Marsh Harrier



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

7 Willow Warbler

11 Reed Bunting

13 Meadow Pipit

2 Swift

1 Oystercatcher

4 Teal

1 Marsh Harrier



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Chat Moss
Adult Water Rail with 3 young this evening.

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Dave Steel


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300625 Including a Dragonfly Survey for Carbon Landscape

Chat Moss

18 Willow Warbler...Still in song...just!

1 Common Tern

3 Green Sandpiper

1 Water Rail with at least 1 Young

2 Oystercatcher

90 Lapwing

5 Swallow



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Irlam Moss

5 Swift

12 House Sparrow

18 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

6 Rook

8 Swallow

2 Sand Martin

Cadishead Moss

5 Yellow Wagtail

6 Skylark

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

22 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

17 Lapwing

1 Oystercatcher

1 Curlew

 



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Around LWM and surrounding area today 10-2:

3+ Yellowhammer, 1+ Marsh Harrier, 35 Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Stonechat, 6 Reed Bunting, 3 Willow Warbler, 2 Kestrel, 3 Common Whitethroat, Golden Plover, 3 Curlew, Stock Dove, 4 Swift, 5 Skylark, 2 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 25 Swallow, 3 Meadow Pipit were the highlights.



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Carl Moorhouse


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Green Woodpecker over Rindle Road approx 6.20pm.

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Great Woolden Moss

34 House Sparrow

22 House Martin 

25 Swallow

1 Hobby actively hunting the hirundine...caught one after three passes

Irlam Moss

30 Rook

110 Lapwing

10 Swallow---Hobby alarm none seen...but they did!

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

36 Lapwing

2 Teal

3 Oystercatcher

2 Curlew

6 Willow Warbler in song.



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Little Woolden Moss

13 Swallow

23 Skylark

23 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1100

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Red Kite @ 1107

1 Yellowhammer

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

14 Swallow

18 Reed Bunting

16 Meadow Pipit

2 Sedge Warbler

1 Grey Partridge

1 Common Sandpiper

1 Green Sandpiper

 

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

8 Willow Warbler

2 Oystercatcher

16 Teal

13 Lapwing 

Cadishead Moss

4 Swallow 

36 Starling

39 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

1 Curlew



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Barton Moss

80 Starling

20 House Martin

15 Swallow

3 Lapwing

14 Blackbird

11 House Sparrow

12 Skylark

11 Linnet

6 Yellow Wagtail

Chat Moss

22 Swallow

1 Kestrel with prey

1 Yellow wagtail



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Little Woolden Moss

1 Hobby

3 Grey Wagtail

2 Yellowhammer

5 Yellow Wagtail

2 Swallow

1 Curlew

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

33 Lapwing

1 Curlew

3 Oystercatcher

2 Stonechat

2 Hobby

1 Sedge Warbler

11 Reed Bunting

12 Swift

9 Meadow Pipit

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Redshank

2 Buzzard



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Astley Moss

1 Hobby

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Oystercatcher

10 Lapwing

1 Hobby

 



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Chat Moss

1 Hobby

4 Swallow

2 Swift

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Raven



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Little Woolden Moss this afternoon 

Female Marsh Harrier with juvenile Lapwing prey, 2 x Yellowhammer, 1 x Yellow Wagtail, 5 x Teal and 1 x Grasshopper Warbler were birds of note.



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

13 Meadow Pipit

2 Teal

7 Willow Warbler

1 Curlew

2 Moorhen with 4 Young



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Irlam Moss

22 Magpie

1 Sparrowhawk

1 Oystercatcher

2 Song Thrush

Chat Moss

2 Common Tern

1 Little Egret

21 Willow Warbler

10 Swift

 

 



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Astley Moss

6 Meadow Pipit

14 Willow Warbler

3 Reed Bunting

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1035

....and a brief glimpse of the past as a Pullman Train dashed along the Railway line...recalling that the Turtle Dove/Tree Pipit/Curlew...and more that were here in the sixties are but dust....what have we done....????????



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Irlam Moss

12 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

9 Swallow

5 Rook

Cadishead Moss

3 Yellow Wagtail

10 Skylark

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

7 Willow Warbler

9 Lapwing

2 Stock Dove



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR With Ian Jenkinson

11 Willow Warbler

6 Reed Bunting

2 Hobby

1 Sedge Warbler



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

34 Willow Warbler

21 Meadow Pipit

2 Curlew

27 Reed Bunting

2 Sedge Warbler

2 Stonechat



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6.25pm probable Quail flushed by mammal in the field outside Astley Moss, along drainage ditch from the hay/silage/grass pile on the path. No sign since, and no call.

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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Hobby

1 Sparrowhawk...Male

1 Garden Warbler in song

1 Blackcap in song

2 Curlew

75 Swift

7 Swallow

1 Moorhen with 4 small young



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Marsh Harrier with Prey @ 1024

26 Swift

4 Oystercatcher

5 Meadow Pipit in Display Flight

 



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Barton Moss

1 Goldcrest in song

17 Swallow

14 House Martin

7 Skylark

3 Yellow Wagtail

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

26 Willow Warbler

18 swift

1 Sparrowhawk...Male

4 Teal

2 Song Thrush

3 Sedge Warbler

 



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Irlam Moss

5 Willow Warbler

1 Sedge Warbler

19 Magpie

30 Starling

Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1005

1 Yellowhammer

6 Willow Warbler

3 Blackcap

1 Sedge Warbler

17 Willow Warbler

4 Bullfinch

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

21 Lapwing

4 Teal

7 Reed Bunting

Little Woolden Moss FN56/57/64

3 Yellow Wagtail...what a crash in numbers over past two years

2 Yellowhammer

2 Curlew in alarm

19 Skylark

4 Lapwing in alarm...2 young noted

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

155 Swift

1 Curlew

4 Lapwing...2 pair with 5 young in total

Cadishead Moss

1 Yellowhammer in song

5 Swallow

12 House Sparrow

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR including a Breeding Bird Survey

26 Willow Warbler

5 Reed Bunting

4 Linnet + 1 Linnet Nest with 5 Eggs

1 Snipe

2 Greylag Geese

Sit and watch session later with Dave Stewart and Ian Jenkinson

75 Swift

2 Marsh Harrier

3 Hobby (Ian noted a total of 5 after Dave and I had left)

2 pair of Teal

Pair Lapwing with 4 Small Young



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New Moss Wood

1 Willow Tit

6 Blackcap

15 Blackbird

21 Wren

5 Willow Warbler

Great Woolden Hall Area

30 House Sparrow

9 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

8 Swallow

11 House Martin



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Little Woolden Moss With Fred Ford

13 Skylark

2 Yellowhammer

25 Swift

2 Yellow Wagtail

Later after saying Bye to Fred Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West

2 Hobby

1 Sedge Warbler in song

1 Oystercatcher

2 Little Egret which flew over and onto the Glaze



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Afternoon visit 13.00-16.30 approx

Little Woolden LWTNR

2 Marsh Harriers, 2 Kestrels, 3 Ravens, 1 pair of Teal (M+F), 1 Curlew, 2 Oystercatchers,

100+ Lapwings (Post breeding flock?) gathered on the pool along SE corner of the reserve

and 1 adult Lapwing seen guarding 4 small youngsters.

Swifts in view throughout my stay, seemed impossible to estimate numbers.

8+ Willow Warblers and 2 Chiffchaffs singing along the birch woodland on the South side the reserve.

1 Yellow Wagtail flushed off a fence post by the River Glaze (GM side) as I slowly drove past.



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Chat Moss

9 Skylark

10 Canada Goose 4 adult 6 Young

2 Swallow

12 Lapwing

2 Curlew

30 Willow Warbler in song

1 Sedge Warbler in song

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...with Ian Jenkinson 

27 Swift

3 Marsh Harrier

2 Hobby

1 Mediterranean Gull Flew Over @ 1208

15 Lapwing 

2 Oystercatcher

6 Rook

1 Garden Warbler in song 

1 Peregrine...female

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss NR 1st June am Tree Pipit on the far west border of the NR.

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Cadishead Moss

4 Yellow Wagtail

1 Yellowhammer

7 Skylark

26 Starling

8 Lapwing

Irlam Moss

2 Grey Partridge

1 Yellow Wagtail

50 Rook

Chat Moss 

25 Swift

1 Yellowhammer

2 Bulfinch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Wheatear

29 Lapwing

35 Swift

1 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier in moult with one leg dangling

2 Oystercatcher



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Chat Moss

17 House Martin

13 Swallow

44 Stock Dove

1 Grey Partridge

Barton Moss

1 Yellow Wagtail

7 Skylark

5 Swift

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

28 Lapwing

2 Hobby

70 Swift

1 Yellow Wagtail

 

 



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Originally posted by Joe Shaw today:

1 Hobby

2 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier ( what a bird, so lucky to have these on our doorstep)



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Barton Moss Including a Carbon Landscape BBS

11 Whitethroat

16 Skylark

2 Lapwing

9 Reed Bunting

2 Stonechat

1 Sedge Warbler

3 Yellow Wagtail

23 Swallow

16 House Martin



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Spoonbill 2010hrs on the west pools. 2015hrs takes flight, struggling in the wind, but flies perfect West towards Culcheth and out of sight.

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Little Woolden Moss during a Carbon Landscape Breeding Bird Survey

39 Willow Warbler in song

16 Reed Bunting

1 Sedge Warbler in song

11 Meadow Pipit

33 Swift

12 Skylark

4 Yellow Wagtail

2 Yellowhammer



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Little Woolden Moss during a Carbon Landscape Breeding Bird Survey

24 Willow Warbler in song

11 Reed Bunting

8 Meadow Pipit

1 Hobby

1 Little Egret

1 Reed Warbler in song

1 Sedge Warbler in song

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Yellowhammer



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