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Andy Slee · Status: Offline

RE: Moore NR

Andy Slee · Status: Offline

If Ian Forum Owner doesn't mind a link to the most comprehensive blog about Moore is here;

https://moorepatcher.blogspot.com/2010/07/patch-perspectives.html

If you look down thread for my post Date: Thu Aug 10 8:57 AM, 2023 there is also a map of a few places down the western end.

Black fields pools are at the East End, you have to scramble up a bank on the path to the North side of the Eastern Reedbed Path W3W fish.doing.voting

Big Wood is North/ East of the big Dog field by the car park.

-- Edited by Andy Slee on Thursday 2nd of May 2024 11:07:19 PM

Oliver Morris · Status: Offline

Nice walk around yesterday, approx. 4.30pm - 7pm. Of interest:

Cuckoo heard and seen near raptor viewpoint; Linnets also heard but not seen. Whitethroat seen by the path that runs to the north of Lapwing Lake, and parakeets (at least 2) on Lapwing Lane. Reed warbler heard and briefly seen by the hide on Lapwing Lane, quite a few blackcaps around also. Not much of interest on Birchwood or Pumphouse pools, aside from a couple of lesser black-backed gulls chasing off a common buzzard. Didn't see any hirundines or swifts at all.

Is there a map for this site/the surrounding areas with the names that people in this forum use? I'm not super local to the area (closer to Wigan!), and I can't seem to find things like Norton Marsh, Big Wood, Black Fields Pool etc when I search them online.

Andy Slee · Status: Offline

Two Wheatear on Norton Marsh today - one looking possible for Greenland. Finally Reed and Sedge Warblers (patch year tick) back on the Marsh. Plenty of Cetti's Warblers to though at least seven between the Marsh / Upper Moss Side and Snipe fields.

Still quiet otherwise down on Upper Moss Side, couple Bullfinch, Chiffchaffs and Corvids the main avifauna.

More Coot, Mallard and Canada Goose chicks on Lapwing Lane Pool.

Green Woodpecker on field next to Big Wood and Hobby over briefly.

Still no Whitethroat of either species in the usual spots, House Martin or Swift. Strange times.........clegs are back though

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 1st of May 2024 09:47:45 PM

Andy Slee · Status: Offline

Rare due to work these days a rare chance to traverse the whole reserve early. Birdsong was fantastic as the ground frost gave an eirie mist close to the ground in places. Came in from Wigg Island and heard Common Whitethroats twice on Randles tip and from Oxmoor, as soon as I passed Halfway House not one more all morning. Mind other warblers seem missing in usual places this year - still no Reed Warblers down the West. 13 Cetti's Warblers heard in the whole traverse from Halfway House - Owens Wood - back path to ex Norton Marsh Hide, Lapwing Lane Wood / Pool - Birchwood Pool - Pumphouse Pool - Black Fields Pool - Eastford Road - Morely Common.

31 Canada Geese on Cuerdly Marsh had goslings present, difficult to see in the long grass. Redshank (1), Little Egret (2), Grey Heron (5), Black-headed Gulls (49), one Herring Gull, three Lesser Black Backed Gulls and two Great Black Backed gulls came through Round Cherval whilst watching the tide fall and the mudbanks revealled but no waders seemed to be dropping in as the sun rose. Two Oystercatchers "peeped" their way upriver and a couple of Gadwall and four Shelduck were on the river but little else.

Snipe, Kestrel, Reed Bunting and Skylarks over the Marsh. No Warblers apart from Cetti's on the Marsh.

Five (!!!) Ring-necked Parakeets flew from the direction of Promenade Park to a house with feeders on Lapwing Lane.

Great Spotted Woodpecker and Garden Warbler by the new aquatic scrape. with a nice showy Treecreeper.

Juvenille Coot and Mallard on Lapwing Lane Pool. Two Little Grebe.

Pumphouse Pool still very high little suitable wader ground, eight Tufted Duck, two Shoveler, eight Mallard, two Little Grebe, two Gadwall, 13 Sand Martin, 1 Little Egret, two Siskin in the Alders behind Colin's Hide.

Two Oystercatchers dropped into the Black Fields Pool which has been drained to leave a decent amount of muddy shore, where a Little Egret flew in (from Pumphouse?). Two more Grey Heron present. Mallard, Little Grebe, four Tufted Duck on the pool with a Common Sandpiper the the back of the West cell and resplendent in the morning sun on the back of the East cell a Wood Sandpiper (patch first for me and thus patch first for year).