First Vist to this site today, very nice place.

50 Plus Fieldfare
Several Redwings
and a day calling Tawny Owl were the highlights main pool full of BH Gulls etc,

Keep Birding.

2 willow tit, 1 whitethroat + usual woodland birds, surprised to see the wetlands hide locked this pm.

with just over an hour to kill nipped in for a quick visit this pm
on lake, 22 mute swan, 12 canada geese, loads of mallard and black headed gulls,
wetland hide 1 mute swan, 1 little grebe, 6 coot, 5 mallard, 2 moorhen.
feeding station, 1f great spotted woodpecker, willow tit, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, chaffinch, dunnock, robin, wren,reed bunting,wood pigeon, magpie, bullfinch, 5 blackbird 4m 1f and plenty of squabbling from the males.

Red headed smew on main lake. Thannks to Don for the heads up.

Single Pink-footed Goose has been on the main lake for the last three days

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 23rd of October 2013 11:53:38 PM

Tuesday 16 July 2013
9.30am-1.30pm

Lovely summer morning.

Very quiet bird activity apart from
1 Kestrel above
1 Common Buzzard above
Pair of Coot with 2 young ones
1f Mallard with 1 young one
Pair of Moorhen with 3 young ones
2 Pied Wagtails
1 Grey Heron

Plus all the usuals.

Friday 5 July 2013
9am-11am

Beautiful summer morning.
Daughter trying - out new scope.
loved it and at only £27 a bargain.
I already have one...not a Leica but a good buy.

Mother Mallard with 2 young ones
Pair of Coot with 2 young ones
Lots of Moorhen
2 Pied Wagtails
Lots of Golfinches
At least 6 Common Whitethroats singing
Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers singing
3 Woodpigeons
A few Blackcaps singing
Wrens singing
A few Long tailed tits
Lots of Swifts,Swallows and House Martins

Tuesday 2 July 2013
9am-11am

Very little activity.
Most of the usuals but in low numbers.
5 Song Thrushes
At least 10 Woodpigeons
Plenty of Wrens
1 Common Buzzard
1 Curlew flying over site.

-- Edited by Ernest Sherman on Wednesday 3rd of July 2013 08:24:39 AM

Monday 24 June 2013
10.30am-1.30pm

Very quiet day.

A few Coots. One pair with 2 young
2f Mallards with several young
A few Moorhens
2 Grey Herons
4 Black headed gulls
2 Common BuZara's
1 ? Tern overhead
All the usual Warblers but low in numbers.

Monday 3rd June 2013
7.45-9.30

A beautiful summers morning
alive with birdsong.

2 Grey Herons
Lots of Mallards
Several Moorhens
Lots of Coots...one pair with 2 young
1 pair Tufted Duck
1 m Shoveler
Heard Little Grebe in reeds
Lots of Willow Warblers, Chiffchaffs and Reed Buntings
At least 6 Common Whitethroat
A few Blackcaps
7 Black headed Gulls
A few Swallows and House Martins
2 Jays
4 Magpies
Several Wood Pigeons
Several Skylarks singing

6 Young Rabbits

Thursday 23rd May 2013
9am-11am

Cold, blustery and drizzly morning.

6 Mallards
Several Coots and Moorhens
1 Little Grebe
A few each of Willow Warblers,Chiffchaffs and Reed Buntings
2 Common Whitethroats
1 Blackcap
Several Wrens
Several Long tailed Tits (1 pair nesting)
1 Song Thrush singing
1 Blackbird singing
1 Skylark singing
1 Collared Dove
2 Canada Geese flew over
Several Swallows, Swifts and House Martins
1 Common Buzzard mobbed by Carrion Crow

Saturday 18th May 2013
9am-10.30 am

1 Little Grebe
Plenty of Coots and Moorhens
5 Mallards
Several Willow Warblers
------- Chiffchaffs
------- Blackcaps
------- Reed Buntings
2 Common Whitethroats
2 Carrion Crows
1 Jay
1 Great spotted Woodpecker
2 Skylarks singing
Swallows overhead
House Martins overhead
Tawny Owl hooting

Tuesday 14th May 2013
09.00am-10.00am

Just a quick hour this morning
produced the following sightings..

4 Mallards
Several Coots and Moorhens
1 Grey Heron
1 Black headed Gull on water
Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs singing
3 Reed Buntings singing
4 Common Whitethroats singing
2 Blackcaps singing
Swallows over water
Skylarks singing in distance
Common Buzzard "mewing" behind trees

Tuesday 7 May 2013
9am-10.30am

Lots of Mallards,Coots and Moorhens.
4m Gadwall
1 Grey Heron
1 Lapwing
Lots of Willow Warblers,Chiffchaffs and Common Whitethroats.
2 Blackcaps singing
Corn Bunting heard in distance.
Skylarks heard in distance.
Robins singing
2 Long tailed Tits
Wren singing
Swallows overhead
2 Carrion Crow overhead

2nd May 2013
4pm-5.30pm
Glorious late afternoon and some fantastic news.
The new metal hide is now open.
It is open from 9.30am - 4.30pm approx....
Not sure about opening times yet for weekend.
The site and the hide are managed by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust
and they are having a sort of open day this Sunday 5th May at the boating lake information centre
from 9.30-3.30.
All are welcome and people can sign up as a volunteer or helper for any or all of the sites around Wigan.
Or you can just receive news about the sites.

Todays sightings...
Several Mallards
------- Coots
------- Moorehens
5m and 2f Gadwall
Willow Warblers singing
Chiffchaff singing
2 Reed Bunting singing
3 Common Whitethroat singing
1 Song Thrush singing
Robins singing
Blue Tits
Great Tits
Long tailed Tits
2 Carrion Crows
2 Mute Swans overhead
Swallows overhead
1 male Sparrowhawk circling over site
1 Treecreeper just outside the site.

Come and check this new reserve out and maybe I'll see you on Sunday.

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Thursday 2nd of May 2013 09:16:07 PM

April 23rd 2013
8-9.30 am
1 Song Thrush singing
2 male Reed Buntings singing
A few Willow Warblers singing
A few Chiffchaff singing
Robins
Blackbirds
Wrens
Blue Tits
Great Tits
Several Mallards
Several Coots
Several Moorhens
2m + 2 female Gadwall
3 very young ducklings
2 Carrion Crows
Tawny Owl hooting.

8.30-11.30 am
2 Swallows
2 Willow Warblers singing
Several Mallards
Several Coots
Several Moorhens
4 Gadwall
Skylarks singing nearby
2 male Reed Buntings singing
1 Little Grebe
1 Buzzard flew over...mobbed by 4 Carrion Crows
1 Heron flew over
1 Sedge Warbler singing
1 cock Pheasant
1 Cormorant
1 Blackcap singing
Several Chiffchaff singing
Tawny Owl hooting at roosting place nearby
Several Wood Pigeon

Hi, where is this site, regards mike

I am sure this site will really take off once it becomes more mature and settled.
This morning ..
several Chiffchaffs calling.
1 Reed Bunting calling.
1 Coot making nest.
Pair of Canada Geese.
Just been informed by Graham of WLCT that LWT will be opening the new metal hide in about 2 Weeks.

A Swedish-ringed Black-Headed Gull this morning was a returning bird from last winter. 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Nuthatch calling nr lake

early morning visit after picking up my supply of sunflower hearts for borsdane woods Hindley the price has gone up now to £39

4 bullfinch
4 willow tit
flock of mixed fieldfare and redwings approx 20
lots of the usual tits and chafinches , no Bramblings yet.
no sigs of any goosander but the pond was half frozen
the robins at the feeding station are very tame

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Thursday 29th of November 2012 05:30:10 PM

Hi . The Friends of Three Sisters look after the bird hide .I feed the birds with other Group members daily and buy the food . The Group has over 80 bird boxs up ,all different size holes for small birds plus ,Treecreeper,Kingfisher,Woodpecker and 2 Owl boxs ( 3 Tawny Owls chicks this year ), Also bat boxs and hedgehog dens . The Group is doing a few dead hedges also in woods .
The Group will be planting 300 whips this year =130 Blackthorn .130 Hawthorn 10 Rowan 10 wild cherry 10 crab apple 10 dog wood = big tree event on 25 th nov and 2nd dec
Tony
Friends Group

spent a pleasant hour in the feeding station during heavy rain,
loads of great and blue tit, willow tit, coal tit, chaffinch, dunnock, blackbird, jay, magpie, wood pigeon, nuthatch, great spotted woodpecker and a moorhen that thought it was a woodpecker kept going up a tree/bush at the back of the area and pecking at the bark woodpecker style also climbed onto one of the caged feeding tables and had itself a feast.

Afternoon mooch on the wetland section of this site,

1 Coot
3 Moorhen
20 Swallow
1 Mallard
1 Brand spanking new hide,all steel construction anti vandal paint,the dogs wotsits, a cracking addition to this maturing site.but all locked up access details to follow

cheers geoff