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011126

Barton Moss

3 Snipe

2 Lesser Redpoll

9 Reed Bunting

2 Bullfinch

11 Skylark

Chat Moss

90 Linnet

30 Chaffinch

2 Song Thrush



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311026

Irlam Moss

87 Lapwing

25 Starling

Chat Moss

4 Stonechat

8 Meadow Pipit

2 Snipe

 



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301026

Irlam Moss

37 Pied Wagtail

4 Stonechat

1 Chiffchaff

7 Meadow Pipit

4 Snipe

26 Redwing

2 Golden Plover

170 Starling

59 Lapwing

2 Cetti's Warbler

 

 

 



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291026

Little Woolden Moss FN56/57/64

45 Chaffinch

11 Skylark

5 Stock Dove

4 Grey Partridge

1 Yellowhammer

53 Redwing

9 Reed Bunting

17 Fieldfare

1 Sparrowhawk...Female

80 Linnet

65 Greenfinch



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281026

Chat Moss

19 Chaffinch

2 Brambling

84 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East

 



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Chat Moss

6 Snipe

2 Peregrine Falcon having a spat whilst chasing South

3 Whooper Swan flying East

62 Lesser Black-Backed Gull Flying South

19 Herring Gull Flying South

153 Pink-Footed Geese in 4 Skeins Flying West

7 Skylark



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

150 Fieldfare---flying Southeast

70 Redwing ----flying west

4 Lesser Redpoll

Little Woolden Moss FN56

27 Skylark

8 Meadow Pipit

30 Fieldfare

1 Sparrowhawk...Female

3 Mistle Thrush.



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251026

Irlam Moss

160 Starling

115 Lapwing

5 Great Black-Backed Gull

21 Pied Wagtail

Chat Moss

2 Lesser Redpoll

5 Snipe



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Little Woolden Moss FN56/57/64

55 Linnet

2 Grey Partridge

45 Fieldfare

60 Chaffinch

80 Greenfinch

2 Tree Sparrow

37 Skylark



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Irlam Moss F22

71 Starlings

15 Pied Wagtails

5 Meadow Pipit 

Irlam Moss F63

1 Female Sparrowhawk 

1 Buzzzard

Chat Moss F52

180 Pink Footed Geese in 4 skeins over west 12-20-12-35hrs.

c30 Linnets over south 

3 Jays

11 Fieldfares over west 

17 Redwings over west

2 Buzzards above Dixon's Wood 

Barton Moss F4

c200 Pink Footed Geese ground feeding

Not much around, but did have a nice catch up with Dave Steel

 



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231026

Irlam Moss

63 Pied Wagtail

9 Meadow Pipit

10 Mallard

7 Great Black-Backed Gull

75 Fieldfare

95 Lapwing

29 Linnet

1 Grey Wagtail

Chat Moss

14 Skylark

115 Linnet

43 Redwing

178 Pink-Footed Geese in 3 Skeins

1 Yellowhammer

64 Fieldfare

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

305 Pink-Footed Geese in 4 Skeins

2 Snipe

210 Black-Headed Gull

 



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Irlam Moss

19 Chaffinch

2 Brambling

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Bullfinch

2 Pink-Footed Geese

2 Stonechat



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Chat Moss

135 Linnet

23 Meadow Pipit

150 Starling

55 Redwing

9 Pink-Footed Geese

2 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

116 Pink-Footed Geese Flying west @ 1241

1 Marsh Harrier male which remonstrated with a  Carrion Crow which had the temerity to attack it...



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Chat Moss

167 Meadow Pipit

3 Fieldfare

146 Redwing

3 Snipe

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Merlin...flying North to SE @ 1155

1 Stonechat

14 Chaffinch

1 Sparrowhawk

10 Whooper Swan flying S @ 0906

18 Skylark

180 Pink-Footed Geese Flying west @ 1150

 

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss with RSPB Manchester Group

12 Chaffinch

80 Greenfinch

2 Raven

70 Skylark

4 Grey Partridge

39 Pink-Footed Geese flying East @ 1041

2 Snipe

10 Whooper Swan



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Little Woolden Moss 

48 Pink-Footed Geese Flying east 0956

90 Skylark

5 Stonechat

2 Yellowhammer

4 Grey Partridge

2 Bullfinch

70 Greenfinch

80 Linnet

....at least 700 Pink Footed Geese on the  move



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Irlam Moss

1 Little Egret Flying South @ 0952

2 Stonechat....Pair

2 Redwing

3 Reed Bunting

3 Great Black-Backed Gull flying north 0925

30 Pink-Footed Geese Flying east 0940

3 Chiffchaff

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

19 Meadow Pipit

31 Skylark

3 Snipe

5 Reed Bunting

80 Lapwing

7 Lesser Redpoll.

65 Pink-Footed Geese Flying south @ 1040

 



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Chat Moss - am

11 Whooper Swans over heading SE. One had a very distinctive kinked neck.
300+ Pink-footed Geese over
1 Brambling heard
19 Fieldfare
25 Redwing
1 Peregrine
1 Marsh Harrier - female
2 Raven
4 Chiffchaff - 1 singing
8 Redpoll


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Thanks for that David

 

 

Dave



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Look like Chub Dave

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151026

Windy Bank Wood

24 Robin

160 Pink-Footed Geese Flying east @ 0932

22 Mallard

1 Little Grebe

13 Red-Legged Partridge

6 Redwing

23 Blackbird

2 Jay

2 Nuthatch

4 Bullfinch

2 Stock Dove

1 Sparrowhawk....

 

Question...anyone know this Fish Species ...in the Glaze?



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Chat Moss

4 Snipe

21 Meadow Pipit

3 Lesser Redpoll

6 Skylark

80 Redwing

2 Sparrowhawk

2 Buzzard

3 Rook

2 Raven

80 Pink-Footed Geese Flying east @ 1012



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Chat Moss

1 Yellowhammer

2 Bullfinch

4 Grey Partridge

1 Stonechat

5 Meadow Pipit

8 Chaffinch

56 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West @ 0911

4 Lesser Redpoll

1 Chiffchaff

3 Snipe

Irlam Moss

140 Starling



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Irlam Moss

6 Snipe

38 Pink-Footed Geese Flying Nort @ 0938

65 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East @ 0934

24 Meadow Pipit

17 Pied Wagtail

1 Stonechat...on a fallow field which was a great winter food source and today (151026) the field was 'tidied up....ahh I so love such modern 'farming'

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

42 Meadow Pipit

58 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East @ 1110

3 Reed Bunting

1 Raven

55 Redwing



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Walk from Irlam Station to the bottom of Cutnook Lane 14:10 - 16:50, highlights:

Female-type marsh harrier over Astley Road at Ebenezer Farm, upsetting a flock of c.50 black-headed gulls on the turf fields. Also c.20 pied wagtails and at least 20 linnets near the road.

2 buzzards over Little Woolden Moss.

2 swallows low over Twelve Yards Road.



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Little Woolden Moss

70 Skylark

1 Peregrine

55 Linnet

2 Grey Partridge

2 Chiffchaff

70 Greenfinch

1 Yellowhammer

47 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West @ 1012

1 Wheatear.

1 Wheatear

 



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Chat Moss

6 Snipe

11 Meadow Pipit

3 Swallow

2 Sparrowhawk

1 Chiffchaff

4 Skylark

 



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Irlam Moss

11 Linnet

1 Adult + 1 Juvenile Buzzard

2 Bullfinch

1 Cetti's Warbler

2 Chiffchaff

Chat Moss

17 Skylark

10 Pink-Footed Geese flying West @ 1010....

Little Woolden Moss

2 Raven

9 Skylark

1 Yellowhammer

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...with Dave Stewart

1 Great White Egret 

Two Skeins of Pink-Footed Geese flying west...68 @ 1202...38 @ 1258...



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

6 Whooper Swan flying East @ 0950

34 Skylark

42 Meadow Pipit

1 Swallow

2 Snipe

65 Lapwing

2 Greylag Geese

Several Skeins of Pink-Footed Geese heading West...180 @ 0855...53 @ 0900....32 @ 0945...6 @ 1055...36 @ 1234

 

 



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Chat Moss

4 Snipe

1 Swallow

6 Stonechat

6 Reed Bunting

1 Kingfisher

1 Great White Egret

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Golden Plover Flying South @ 1134

1 Yellowhammer

21 Pink-Footed Geese Flying west @ 0850



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Chat Moss

150 Starling

Irlam Moss 

220 Starlin8 Pied Wagtail

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Snipe

11 Skylark

13 Linnet

1 Yellowhammer

5 Reed Bunting

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

8 Swallow

2 Bullfinch

2 Lesser Redpoll

30 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West @ 1010

15 Meadow Pipit

1 Snipe

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Teal

14 Chaffinch

2 Chiffchaff



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Little Woolden Moss/Glaze/Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Wheatear

19 Stock Dove

5 Grey Partridge

42 Skylark

1 Marsh Harrier

7 Chiffchaff

29 Meadow Pipit

2 Little Grebe

29 Pied Wagtail

32 Teal

 



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Green Woodpecker vocal at junction between 12 Yards and Astley Road from 7.40am. 28 Swallows on wires, 6 Snipe over, 82 Pink footed Geese west.

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Little Woolden Moss

50 Linnet

3 Buzzard

2 Swallow

1 Yellowhammer

18 Skylark

28 Meadow Pipit

85 Greenfinch

1 Osprey flying South @ 1135

Chat Moss

90 Starling

24 Swallow



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Little Woolden Moss

2 Yellowhammer

1 Grey wagtail

130 Greenfinch

3 Buzzard...1 with Prey

8 Grey Partridge

16 Skylark

3 Chiffchaff

1 Blackcap

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Snipe

1 Glossy Ibis flying West-East @ 1315



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Barton Moss

52 Lapwing

200 Starling

13 Skylark

Pair Stonechat

4 Snipe

 



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Cadishead Moss

5 Grey Partridge

1 Sparrowhawk...male

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Shoveler

8 Skylark

11 Linnet

Little Woolden Moss

15 Skylark

3 Swallow

1 Treecreeper

1 Yellowhammer



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Chat Moss

8 Snipe

11 Swallow

32 Teal

6 Chiffchaff

Irlam Moss

3 Yellowhammer

86 Starling

 



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Chat Moss

2 Swallow

3 Buzzard

19 Meadow Pipit

1 Pintail Flying SE @ 1100

1 Sparrowhawk...Female

3 Great Black-Backed Gull Flying South @ 0922

1 Great White Egret flying NE @ 1042

6 Skylark

7 Snipe

1 Yellowhammer

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Shoveler

2 Buzzard



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Ringed Plover Flying South-East @ 0845

3 Snipe

1 Swallow

2 Bullfinch

3 Skylark

4 Meadow Pipit



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Dunlin flying South @ 1642

1 Golden Plover Flying east @ 1720



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Barton Moss

24 Swallow

4 House Martin

1 Hobby

8 Linnet

23 Skylark

1 Whitethroat

Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier

3 Buzzard

Irlam Moss

4 Great Black-Backed Gull



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Little Woolden Moss

23 Skylark

12 Linnet

12 Grey Partridge

26 Greenfinch



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Chat Moss

8 Snipe

19 Meadow Pipit

1 Sparrowhawk...Male

21 Swallow

7 Chiffchaff---1 in song



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LWMNR

1 Snipe

55 Meadow Pipit

8 Swallow

1 Peregrine

Little Woolden Moss

22 Swallow

35 Meadow Pipit

16 House Martin

2 Peregrine Chasing on another

49 Skylark

6 Raven

1 Great Black-Backed Gull

5 Buzzard

Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Sparrowhawk Male

 

 

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

 112 Swallow...no idea why I cannot Change my obvious spelling mistake on my original post...the Swallow will have to go on 'Swallowing'!!!!

21 Meadow Pipit Flying South

3 Kestrel

1 Snipe

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1050

22 House Martin

3 Buzzard

Chat Moss

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Sparrowhawk...Male



-- Edited by Dave Steel on Wednesday 16th of September 2026 08:15:15 PM



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

112 Swallowing Streaming South

21 Meadow Pipit Flying South

3 Kestrel

1 Snipe

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1050

22 House Martin

3 Buzzard

Chat Moss

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Sparrowhawk...Male



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Astley Moss

57 Meadow Pipit Streaming South

1 Green Sandpiper

3 Pink-Footed Geese

6 Buzzard

5 Chiffchaff---2 in song.

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Peregrine

2 Buzzard

1 Hobby @ 1255



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Little Woolden Moss

13 Skylark

16 Swallow

7 House Martin

4 Grey Partridge

26 Meadow Pipit

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

52 Teal

8 Meadow Pipit

1 Hobby @ 1250

1 Male Marsh Harrier @ 1250

1 Raven

2 Buzzard

 



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