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Forty west over Walmersley golf club , 30th , 0912hrs .

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Roger Halsey


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50 east over Ramsbottom at 9.45 this morning.



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David Gornall


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60 heading west over A580/ Bypass at 0730

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11 over Redgate Recycling, Gorton, this morning.

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Sun 26th Oct

Early morning around 7.30am I was alerted to the sound of the Geese flying over mums house Dane Bank but couldnt see them.
Then I looked up and realised they were higher than usual, and I couldnt put a number on them, probably well over 1500 birds.


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Over 5000 birds headed SE in 32 Skeins over heaton park between 7:10 and 9:10 this morning

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Andrew Jeffery


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62 heading north over Sale Water Park this morning.

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Colin Broadhurst


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C70 heading SE at 8.15....probably in direction of Pennington 



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Andy Bissitt


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Probably the same as previous post (I estimated 180) more or less together over Romiley at 8:35, still heading East.

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Colin Broadhurst


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2 skeines 43 and 30 heading east over Atherton at 8.10am

Another 120 east @8.15



-- Edited by Colin Broadhurst on Saturday 25th of October 2025 08:18:21 AM

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Whilst working around Stone Cross lane I saw about 30 drop into the fields at 920am this morning & this afternoon I could see there was well over 30 feeding in the field as I was in the layby ( next to grange farm) on East Lancs.

Ian : the fields down Kenyon Lane have all had Maize crops in them, so I expect they are feeding in those fields also.



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Ian McKerchar


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Thanks David, yesterday’s birds were definitely dropping down east of there but all in Cheshire anyway, other than when they were low over the south of Lowton 



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The pink footed geese are feeding in the cut Maize field at Stone Cross Lane south ( next to grange farm) , I saw about 30 drop in this morning & this afternoon i could hear them still in the field , not sure how many were in the field because I couldn't see for the high hedges.

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At around 09:15 this morning a couple of hundred were circling low over the Lowton St. Mary’s area immediately north of the A580 but then flew low dropping to the south of the A580 in Cheshire and perhaps around the Kenyon Lane/B5207 area.



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PHIL GREENWOOD


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70+ over Flixton heading west at 1010.

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Colin Broadhurst


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45 heading West over Atherton @ 10.00am



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fredford


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Two skeins , one of fifty , the following of twenty , south east over Walmersley golf club , 1556hrs . Not much gossiping .

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Colin Broadhurst


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C140 heading NW over Leigh town centre @ 12.30



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200+going WEST at 10.45 over Leigh.

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Andy Bissitt


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c70 flying E over Marple (from my Romiley bedroom window) this am. Then, when over Mellor Moor, turned N. The only evidence of migration to be seen as the moment. 



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PHIL GREENWOOD


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60+ over Flixton at 0930, heading NE.

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Tony Darby


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C400 East over Millgate Fields Didsbury at 2.30 this afternoon.

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34 flying SW over Low Hall pool at 14:50

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081025 Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

13 East @ 0837

80 West @ 0839

50 West @ 0847

32 West @ 0849

260 East @ 0853

75 South @ 0905

135 East @ 0958

30 North @ 1010

125 West @ 1022

 



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Gordon Newman


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40 flew over the garden North between Pennington Flash & Bickershaw CP @ 14.39

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Tony O Mahony


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About 80 flying east over Chorlton Park at 10.05

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08.52

150 ESE over Werneth Oldham

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Skein of 75 flying EAST over Little Woolden Moss LWTNR @ 0809

Skein of 70 flying NORTH  over Little Woolden Moss LWTNR @ 0822

3 Skeins totalling 280 flying NORTH  over Little Woolden Moss LWTNR @ 1020

Skein of 22 flying NORTH  over Chat Moss @ 1135



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Colin Broadhurst


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Skein of approx 150 heading east over Cutacre 



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31 east over flixton at 2.10pm

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c.60 East over Tyldesley at 10.25am

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Around 200 -220 flying high, SW, over Ramsbottom at 800am today 



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Approx 200 flew east over Whitefield at 18:45 this evening

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Chris Harper


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55 heading ese just now over Dukinfield 



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Steven Nelson


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c45 east over Irlam at 07.50 this morning

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Andy Bissitt


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c350 over my home (Romiley) just now, at quite a height heading east.

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A flock heard from Whitebeam Close, Timperley, yesterday 21st between about 10 - 1030. Apologies for late report.



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46 heading east over Atherton @13.15



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c404 in 7 skeins east over Stretford Meadows between 07.56 and 08.26

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80+ south over Green Hill, Wellacre CP, Flixton 07.52
60+ north west over Stretford Meadows at 09.57

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16 west over Mosley Common-Tyldesley at 07:35

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70+ flying west over Wythenshawe @10.35

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70+ flew West @ 07.54 over Dale Grove, Leigh

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50 ish heading west over Wythenshawe at 10 35

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Roger Halsey


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34 east over Ramsbottom at 4.00 this afternoon. 



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150 North East over Dukinfield 



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Approx 30, heading West at15:10



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fredford


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Birtle . Just now , yet another group , much lower , unseen , west !
What is going on ? Where are they going ?

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fredford


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Birtle . Large squadron , 150ish , west over back of Birtle . 1547hrs .
Bury . 80ish , west over Bury 1617hrs .
De- lightful !

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C1000 Pink Footed Geese circled over Little Wooldon Moss and Irlam Moss then came west and landed west of LWM and slightly east of Holcroft Lane at 12pm 



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