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Thoroughly enjoyable day spent around here today; usual route over Irlam Moss and onto Little Woolden.

Highlight a red kite over field 51; it found a thermal and I watched as it rose until a tiny speck up high. Cracking.

Irlam Moss:

1 goldcrest heard singing
1 chiffchaff heard singing
3 willow warbler
7 blackcap
19 whitethroat, with several fledglings
Goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinch
5 yellowhammer
15+ swallow
10+ house martin (including one gathering mud; nice to see on the ground)
5 pied wagtail
3 yellow wagtail
10+ skylark
6 song thrush
1 mistle thrush
40+ lapwing (including a chick)
2 or 3 oystercatcher
1 kestrel
1 sparrowhawk
3 buzzard

Little Woolden Moss:

11+ willow warbler
5+ whitethroat (including a couple of fledglings)
1 sedge warbler heard singing
6+ linnet
5+ reed bunting
5+ meadow pipit
8+ yellow wagtail
8+ pied wagtail
3+ mistle thrush
1 ringed plover
c15 lapwing (including a chick)
3 oystercatcher
4 curlew
Buzzard heard a couple of times.

As I was leaving, a curlew flew over the tree-line and landed on the path, right in front of the gate, about 20 yards from me. Nice end to the day.

-- Edited by Shannon Llewellyn on Sunday 10th of June 2018 10:56:55 PM

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

1 Cuckoo

4 Curlew

2 Oystercatcher

2 Redshank

2 Kestrel

12 Yellow Wagtail

17 Pied Wagtail

6 Tree Sparrow

2 Snipe in display am

 

Croxden:

 

1 Willow Tit

3 Oystercatcher

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

12 Yellow Wagtail

20 Pied Wagtail

1 Cuckoo

3 Redshank

3 Oystercatcher

2 Curlews

Drumming Snipe 

11 Swift

7 Singing Willow Warbler

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart; phonescoped Snipe by me!



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Little Woolden Moss. Pair of Ringed Plover this evening. Cuckoo in the distance. Yellow Wagtail,Reed Bunting,Lapwing.

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Little Woolden Moss

Cuckoo calling from the trees opposite the former bird hide flew off towards Olive Mount Farm still calling.

Barton Moss

Another confirmed Yellow Wagtail breeding site  today, single pair feeding young at a traditional location.

This is in addition to the three breeding pairs located yesterday with Dave Stewart on Barton Moss.

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Barton Moss today:

 

Yellow Wagtails feeding young

 8 Skylarks

2 Grey Partridge

 

Croxden:

 

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Oystercatcher

1 Curlew

1 Drake Wigeon

1 Drake Shoveler

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart



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Other sightings from Little Woolden Moss today included:

1 Grey Plover still present

3 Curlew

3 Oystercatcher

17 Yellow Wagtail

19 Pied Wagtail

3 singing Corn Bunting

10 Tree Sparrow 

1 Hobby

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Little Woolden Moss 18:30-19:45

Yellow Wagtail x6
Pied Wagtail x12
Willow Warbler x7
Whitethroat x2
Reed Bunting x6
Lapwing x11 +4 chicks
Curlew x1
Redshank x5
Oystercatcher x2
Grey Plover x2
Meadow Pipit x2
Linnet x5
Chaffinch x1
Black Headed Gull x6
Lesser Black-Backed Gull x2
Swift +20
1 x Deceased Canada Goose also sadly.



-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 6th of June 2018 10:23:49 PM

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Rindle road area 

12.00-1500 ish

Loads of Common whitethroat 

Wren with food

Buzzards X2 being mobbed by a Lapwing

Sparrowhawk hunting the woods

Oystercatcher

Bit of a palaver at the top end of Rindle wood, where a Jay had a Blue tit chick, not a pleasant sight.

 Willow warbler and Sedge warbler, heard not seen

Mistle thrush

Several Kestrel

Cheers Jay 

Dont twitch and drive



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Little Woolden Moss today;

 

Breeding plumaged Grey Plover

1 Cuckoo

4 Redshank

5 Curlew

3 Oystercatcher

12 Yellow Wagtail i

 

Chat Moss:

 

2 Curlew

3 Oystercatcher

55 Lapwing

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

1 Hobby (Image on website)

7 Yellow Wagtail

1 Snipe

4 Redshank.

2 Oystercatcher

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel 



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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

5 Oystercatcher

2 Redshank

4 Gadwall

3 Tufted Duck  

1 displaying Snipe

 

Croxdens:

 

1st Summer Hobby

4 Oystercatcher

 

Cadishead Moss:

 

2 Yellow Wagtail

36 Lapwing

 

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Barton Moss this morning:

4 Yellow Wagtail

1 Sedge Warbler

34 Linnet

1 Grey Partridge

1 Hobby

 

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Late news for Little Woolden Moss yesterday:

1st summer Hobby

14 Gadwall

6 Oystercatcher

4 Redshank

4 Curlews

1 Snipe (displaying)

 2 singing Corn Bunting

4 yellow Wagtail 

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Little Woolden Moss this morning: 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 8 Gadwall

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Little Woolden Moss this morning:

1 Wood Sandpiper

1 Cuckoo

4 Redshank

4 Curlew

3 Ringed Plover

3 Yellow Wagtail 

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Little Woolden Moss this afternoon:

13 Ringed Plover

2 Dunlin

6 Yellow Wagtail

1 Cuckoo

1 Snipe drumming continuously over Cadishead Moss for 15 minutes! 

 

Croxdens:

1 Wood Sandpiper

1 Greylag Goose

2 Yellow Wagtail 

 

Chat Moss:

120 Starling in one flock including many juveniles on field 62

28 Stock Dove on field 52



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Croxdens this morning:

 

1 Wood Sandpiper

3 Oystercatcher

3 Shelduck

3 Greylag Geese

2 Curlew

 

Little Woolden Moss today:

 

6 Ringed Plover

5 Oystercatcher

6 Yellow Wagtail

2 White Wagtail

4 Curlew

2 Redshank

 4 Dunlin

2 Gadwall

1 Shoveler

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart



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Very early this morning on Little Woolden Moss today:

5 Yellow Wagtail

10 Ringed Plover

3 Curlew

3 Redshank

9 Oystercatcher

1 Sedge Warbler

15 Stock Dove

1 Snipe

 

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Little Woolden Moss, from just before 12 to 3.30 today:

8+ willow warbler
1 blackcap
4 whitethroat
Party of very newly fledged long-tailed tit
2+ linnet
2 reed bunting
1 yellowhammer heard calling
1 house martin
8+ meadow pipit
9+ yellow wagtail
4+ pied wagtail
2 skylark
1 mistle thrush singing
5 swift
4 teal
2 or 3 gadwall
3 ringed plover
c25 lapwing
3 dunlin
1 snipe
2 redshank
2 oystercatcher
2 curlew
1 hobby (yay)
1 kestrel
3+ buzzard (2+ distant)

A singing blackcap, a pair of bullfinch, a couple of yellowhammer and a kestrel noted along Astley Road.

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Today's highlights from Little Woolden Moss:

7 Ringed Plover

2 Redshank

2 Oystercatchers

3 Dunlin

7 Yellow Wagtail

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart

 



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Late news for yesterday on Little Woolden Moss:

1 Curlew

1 Redshank

6 Ringed Plover

1 Oystercatcher 

1 Snipe

4 Yellow Wagtail

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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A short visit to Little Woolden Moss in the rain today produced:

 

3 Ringed Plover

4 Oystercatcher

1 Redshank

2 Yellow Wagtail

 

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

3 Ringed Plover

2 Curlew

3 Yellow Wagtail

4 Oystercatcher

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Croxdens today:

6 Oystercatcher

1 Sedge Warbler

1 Teal

1 Yellowhammer

1 Hobby 

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Rindle road area

Apart from the usual

field 68

oystercatcher

lapwingsx4

field 69

Canada geesex2 with a single chick just mooching up and down in the sun.

In the field behind Rindle wood

A kestrel dive bombed a juv lapwing with no luck, soon to be chased of by an adult lapwing.

Pied wagtail

SSSI

Kestrel

Buzzardx2

Swallow

Cheers Jay

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Some sightings from yesterday on Little Woolden Moss included:

2 Yellow Wagtail

4 Curlew

4 Oystercatcher

1 Ringed Plover

2 Shoveler

1 Hobby

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart



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Also on Little Woolden moss this afternoon 2 Hobby giving excellent views catching dragonflies over the South side of the reserve.

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

1 Yellow Wagtail

1 Redshank

12 Oystercatchers

2 Shoveler 

Cuckoo

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel 



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Little Woolden Moss today:

2 Hobby

1 Yellow Wagtail

4 Oystercatcher

2 Curlew

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart 



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Little Woolden Moss 20.30-21.15

No sign of the Wood Sandpiper
1 Dunlin
4 Ringed Plover
3 Oystercatcher
1 Redshank
1 Curlew
1 Shoveler (m)
5 Teal (3m, 2f)
2 Gadwall - pair
2 Yellow Wagtail
3 Reed Bunting
1 Willow Warbler

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Sightings from today on Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 Wood Sandpiper

5 Ringed Plover

5 Dunlin

1 Gadwall

2 Shoveler

2 Curlew

2 Yellow Wagtail

2 Grey Partridge

 

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

2 Hobby

4 Ringed Plover

3 Dunlin

4 Oystercatcher

2 Redshank

1 Shoveler

2 Curlew

2 Yellow Wagtail

 

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Little Woolden Moss today:

 

2 Grey Partridge

1 Cuckoo

1 Wheatear

2 Yellow Wagtail

3 Oystercatcher

3 Curlew

2 Redshank

 

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Little Woolden Moss between 1130 and 1430

Yellow Wagtail (2)
Wheatear (male)
Lapwing (at least 10)
Gadwall (2; 1male and 1 female)
Mallard (4)
Grey Heron (2 over)
Oystercatcher (2)
Kestrel (2)
Linnet (2)
Black-headed Gull (5)
Curlew (6)
Whitethroat (at least 5)
Hobby (seen twice - one bird or two?)
Redshank (2)
Shoveler (2; 1 male and 1 female)
Moorhen
Willow Warbler (lots)


Robin
Blackbird
Magpie
Wood Pigeon
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Wren
Carrion Crow

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Llittle Woolden Moss today:

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Wheatear

2 Hobby

3 Curlew

4 Oystercatchers

1 Dunlin

On Chat Moss:

2 Curlew

1 Sedge Warbler

3 Oystercatcher

1 Whimbrel

2 Wheatear

1 Yellow Wagtail

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08.30-15.00

Along Moss Lane GM side of Glaze Brook : 2 Blackcaps, 1 Kestrel and 1 Grey Heron.

Little Woolden Moss NR and adjoining fields :

1 Cuckoo, 2 Hobbies, 1f Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtails, 4 Swifts, 1 Buzzard, 1 Curlew, 8 Meadow Pipits, 1 Dunlin,

3 Reed Buntings, 3 Skylarks, 3 Yellowhammers, 2 Common Whitethroats, 1m Shoveler and 2 Teal.

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Croxdens today:

 

2 Oystercatchers

2 Curlew

1st summer Hobby

2 Wheatear

 

Chat Moss:

 

1 Wheatear

3 Oystercatcher

1 Sedge Warbler

 

Info thanks to Dave Stewart and Dave Steel



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Further sightings from Little Woolden Moss today:

 

7 Yellow Wagtail

2 Shoveler

2 Tree Sparrows 

 

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Little Woolden Moss this evening:

1 Whimbrel

3 Yellow Wagtail

12 Grey Heron

1 Redshank



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10.30-15.00

Along the nearby Glaze Brook : 2 Redshanks and 11 Grey Herons (A group of 9 were grouped together on the river bank by Holcroft Hall Farm.

Little Woolden Moss NR : 3 Qystercatchers, 3 Curlews, 3 Meadow Pipits, 1 Common Whitethroat and 3 Buzzards.

An amazing 8 Yellow Wagtails were on the reserve and adjoining recently ploughed fields.

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Chat Moss this morning:

 

1 Curlew

2 Oystercatcher

2 Greylag Geese  

1 Sedge Warbler

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

1 Peregrine

1 Curlew

1 Wheatear

2 Hobby

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel 



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Over the A580 this evening, where it crosses the Bridgewater Canal between Leigh and Astley, a Cuckoo flew south towards Astley Moss

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Little Woolden, Chat and Irlam Mosses this evening 19.30-21.30

Little Woolden NR:
1 Grasshopper Warbler heard reeling
1 Cuckoo calling by entrance gate
1 Snipe
4 Oystercatcher
3 Curlew
6 Tufted Duck
2 Teal
2 Gadwall
3 Sand Martin
1 Swift
1 Swallow
2 Blackcap
2 Reed Bunting
2 Grey Partridge heard
3 Willow Warbler

Irlam Moss:
1 Tawny Owl

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Little Woolden Moss, from from 12 - 4.30pm today. Lovely day, and nice to chat to the Daves again. Most sightings already accounted for below, but a full count anyway:

9+ willow warbler
4 blackcap
6 whitethroat
5+ linnet
2+ reed bunting
1 yellowhammer
2 swallow
1 wheatear
3+ meadow pipit
4 yellow wagtail
4+ pied wagtail
4+ skylark
1 cuckoo
2 teal
1 shoveler
20+ lapwing
6 oystercatcher
2 or 3 curlew
1 grey heron circling distantly
1 sparrowhawk
1+ buzzard distantly

Walking up Astley Road, all in song were 2 goldcrest, 1 chiffchaff, 3 blackcap, 5 whitethroat, 1 yellowhammer and 5+ skylark, with several lapwing also around (including at least one chick).



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Further sightings from Little Woolden Moss today:

4 Yellow Wagtail

1 Wheatear

1 Redshank

4 Curlew

2 Shelduck

2 Shoveler

2 Hobby

1 Cuckoo

1 Dunlin

1 Snipe

 

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Late news for yesterday:

Croxdens:

 

3 Greylag Geese

1 Curlew

2 Oystercatcher

1 Hobby

 

Little Woolden Moss:

 

5 Oystercatcher

2 Curlew

4 Yellowhammer

2 Redshank

2 Gadwall

2 Shoveler

2 Yellow Wagtail

 

Irlam Moss:

 

4 Wheatear

 

Info thanks to Dave Steel and Dave Stewart 



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Add early doors @ Little Woolden Moss

Whimbrel
Corn Bunting



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Little Woolden Moss

Male and Female Wheatear

distant Cuckoo

Hobby overhead

8+ Yellow Wagtail



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Little Wolden 

 also Skylarks, lapwings, Oystercatchers, Tree Sparrow, House Sparrow, Common Whitethroat, Kestrel, Buzzard, Willow Warbler 

Astley Moss

Buzzard, Reed Buntings, Yellowhammer, Treecreeper, Lapwing, Skylark, Oystercatchers, Willow Warbler, Common Whitethroat. 



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