A walk up the river irwell from woden street bridge to trinity way brdge.
A nice mixture of birds next to trinity way bridge on the rubble pile inc..

7 mistle thrush
2 greenfinch
1 chaffinch
3 goldfinch
1 meadow pipit
2 house sparrow
1 pied wagtail (crazy one) was chasing around a mistle thrush on a few occasions & then turned its attention to one of the greenfinch.
c120 starlings feeding on the berries.
5 skylarks, over
2 meadow pipits, over.

had a little stroll from trinity way bridge to broughton bridge & back around 2.30pm.

tit flock consisting of long tailed, blue & great tit plus at least 3 chiffchaff.
1 kingfisher
1 female tufted duck
1 grey heron
4 grey wagtail
2 mute swan
mallard & Canada goose
1 jay
1 kestrel

About 4 ish
Peregrine falcon between two blocks of flats next to the precinct
Cheers Jay
Don't twitch and drive

-- Edited by Jason Dulhanty on Monday 29th of September 2014 08:37:31 PM

For those who find themselves near Regent Rd, there is a Wheatear on the development site between Campanile hotel and railway... Lovely views from Albion Way

All Sparrowhawks showing today
absolutely fantastic sight.
Cheers Jay
Don't twitch and drive

There is a family of newly fledged Sparrowhawks in Buile Hill Park, they have been there for 4 days now. I have counted 3 juveniles and one large adult female. They are very vocal constantly mewing to each other and fighting with the local magpies. If anyone has a decent camera this would be a good opportunity to get some excellent shots. I don't want to disclose the exact location as I think they may have been nesting there. However they have all fledged now and are providing great entertainment.

Very vocal Sparrowhawk soaring high above Seedley Park Rd at aprox 5pm tonight, drifted off towards Buile Hill Park..

steven burke wrote:

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Martin Loftus wrote:

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Im very certain I heard and saw two Ring-necked Parakeets flying about just off Whit lane next to the Irwel yesterday..can anyone else confirm a local sightings or am i going insane?

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hi martin, james walsh had 2 sightings of ring- necked parakeets around Pomona, 1 on the 19th oct 2012 & 1 on the 26th oct 2012, so I am pretty sure you wont be going insane.

-- Edited by steven burke on Tuesday 8th of July 2014 12:23:59 PM

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Totally agree with Steve and Mike on this one Martin. Can't really see why you wouldn't see them in that area. Salford is one of those areas not that far from South or North Manchester. South Mcr is where a lot of the sightings occur, but you mention Whit Lane, the one near Agecroft I presume (used to deliver to a plastics firm right near it) well it's also close to Prestwich which is North Mcr, and looking at a post on June 18th on Gtr Mcr Ring-necked Parakeets thread some were seen in gardens there, so I'm not surprised at all Martin.
Cheers
Rob

No reason at all why you shouldn't see them, given how many are around Rusholme/fallowfield

mike s

Peregrine flew west to east over the Lowry Outlet Centre yesterday at around 5.20 p.m.

Chiffchaff calling from wardley cemetery, 25 days earlier than this time last year.

I saw 11 meadow pipits on Middlewood Locks, off East Ordsall Lane. They flew off in SW direction

12 Meadow Pipit today by the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal, close to the railway, on land off East Ordsall Lane

I watched with my workmates this afternoon a large adult Peregrine chase and catch a juvenile Peregrine over my workplace on Liverpool street, Salford. Every local Pigeon, Starling and Black headed gull took to the air in panic as the very vocal juvenile did its best to avoid the adult bird but was caught and knocked out of the air and landed on my works roof. It perched on the edge of the guttering about 30' feet above us calling and trying to preen its left wing which had lost a couple of feathers in the attack. The adult bird circled high above us before swooping down at speed towards the juvenile bird which panicked and dropped off the gutter and flew just over our heads towards the EMR scrap yards across the road. The adult bird carried on chasing and diving at the juvenile as they both headed towards Regent road.

Originally posted by Marion Madden today:

At 16.04 on Friday 25th October a very large flock of Geese flew over our house in Doveleys Road, Salford heading south. We heard them well before we sighted them. They come the same way every year and it is always exciting to see them.

Female Sparrowhawk yesterday afternoon soaring over the wasteland that once was the Ship pub on Cross lane / Liverpool street

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 27th of October 2013 09:45:50 PM

Seen over my workplace at Liverpool street Salford this morning;
2 Peregrines
Sparrowhawk
Another Raven [2nd this week] which really upset the local gasometer Carrion crows which chased it off over the scrap yard towards Manchester.

although the weather was pretty drab there was calm in the air today.

drinkwater park:
whitethroat
grey herons on the river irwell, 1 adult 2 juv
kestrel and juv on the viaduct, the adult was soaring and diving, catching mice/voles and eating them on the wing. very exciting indeed.
plenty of house martins and swifts around

otherwise pretty quiet

-- Edited by Ben Kayser on Monday 5th of August 2013 02:06:33 AM

-- Edited by Ben Kayser on Monday 5th of August 2013 02:06:54 AM

6 Buzzards over the Viridor site Lumms lane

Hi all. New here but wanted to report a sighting today.
First of all I am not very savvy in identifying birds and am curious if someone could tell me what I have just seen.
I saw a massive figure in the sky around 20:30 tonight in Eccles, significant enough for me to get up from the table and run outside to see it.
When outside I saw a bird with its wings spread on the roof of the house opposite.
I am certain it was a bird and each wing must have been c18in - 2ft. I didn't see the body of the bird so can not give any details of markings.
Is anyone aware of a bird of prey in the area and what could it be I saw.
Thanks in advance

Weaste cemetery this afternoon

2 Chiffchaff and a Willow warbler singing
2 Jays
2 Stock doves, first time that I have seen them at this site.
Treecreeper
4 Chaffinch
Song thrush
2 Mistle thrush
3 Redwing
2 Long tailed tits
Coal tit
Great spotted woodpecker
Male Sparrowhawk eating prey while perched on a headstone
13 Magpies
23 Woodpigeons

-- Edited by Dave Thacker on Sunday 14th of April 2013 08:21:11 PM

River Irwell @ The Crescent

Drake Teal
1 Little Grebe
12 Tufted Duck
1 Stock Dove

3 redwings at albert park.

2 Common Buzzards over Liverpool Street