c170 SE over Bickershaw rucks @09-40 followed 10mins later by 6 stragglers, also heard a flock @ 10-10 am but couldn't see them but presume they were the same birds that Gordon saw.
Wigan flashes 130 SE 9ish followed by 30 and 140 east around 11ish 200+ also flushed from fields distantly to the SW (I think) of Scotmans by 3 Buzzards and headed south
Heaton Park 60+ west at dusk over the moors towards Bury
c130 very low (no higher than 250 feet) NW over the New Cross area of Manchester City Centre at 10:50 this morning; heard coming through the gloom of the fog and appeared low enough to be endangered by the CIS tower as they flew past!