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030725

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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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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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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....late late record

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Chat Moss

2 Whimbrel

2 Yellowhammer in song

16 Willow Warbler in song

2 Sedge Warbler in song

6 House Sparrow

5 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

13 Willow Warbler in song

1 Oystercatcher

3 Hobby

1 Grasshopper Warbler in song

1 Curlew

12 Lapwing

 



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...Maps for Fred Ford who was asking about access points to Chat Moss

 

 

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A pair of Yellow Wagtails on field 67 of Astley Moss this early afternoon.

On Astley Moss East, including the old sand quarry lake:

25 Greylag Geese

One Shelduck

Three Tufted Ducks

Two Dunlins (adult and first-summer) on the flooded section of peat close to the railway

Two Sanderlings

Adult Mediterranean Gull flew through W/NW

Adult Hobby hunting to the east



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Mid afternoon yesterday saw 4 x Hobby over the main pool at Little Woolden



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Quick visit to west end of Little Woolden Moss LWTNR at about 2:00pm today (after Penn Flash).

Along with a couple of others I saw:

  • Red Kite being mobbed by a pair of crows
  • 2 Hobby returning every 15-20 minutes to do some more hunting - eating (presumably) dragonflies mid-air


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Chat Moss

22 Lapwing

2 Whimbrel (noted by Steve Nelson last night 7th)

3 Swallow

26 Willow Warbler in song

1 Sedge Warbler in song

5 reed Bunting

1 Shoveler...Male

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...west

1 Redshank

1 Garden Warbler in song

1 Stonechat

7 Reed Bunting

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
32 Willow Warbler in song

2 Curlew in Display

4 Teal

1 Reed Warbler in Song

2 Rook

1 Sedge warbler in song

5 Hobby...Viewed these with Ian Jenkinson whose sharp eyes found a sixth bird!...the age difference really starting to show on these aged eyes of mine!!!!

Little Woolden Moss FN56/57

39 Lapwing...but I ask the question over and again of late ...Lapwing started to breed in mid to late march BUT WHERE ARE their young?????

2 Yellowhammer in song

4 Yellow Wagtail



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Irlam Moss

1 Curlew

27 Starling including some young

2 Swallow

42 Rook

1 Buzzard

Chat Moss

12 Lapwing

1 Yellowhammer in song...not to be taken lightly these are very much on the decline on Chat Moss

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Sedge Warbler

4 Swift

1 Water Rail

1 Curlew

3 Hobby (first at 1140).



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