About a dozen Red-Legged Partridge chicks have turned up in a garden near my daughter's - pretty certain it's the same breeding pair from a couple of years ago which the local cats had a field day with their young. Appeals have gone out to local residents to keep their cats indoors but obviously not everyone will try to comply. Does anybody have any ideas or is it just a case of let nature take it's course again ?
A walk through Glead wood through to M6 underpass onto the land fill area. I have seen more skylark here in Wigan since moving here in September than I did in 28 years living in the High Peak. All fields of the landfill area by the M6 are filled with singing Skylarks, just a shame that the traffic noise drowns most of it out.
Also in this area 1 Kestrel, a flock of 20 Goldfinch,
1 singing Reed Bunting two Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest.
Oh and a Roe Deer running quite close to us back into Glead Wood.
The area where Jimmy heard the LSW is part of Gorsey Hill Wood, which now stands either side of the M6, which was built straight through it! As Jimmy as mentioned previously, this is part of the private Winstanley Hall estate. There is however, a public footpath off Winstanley Road, past the Winstanley Tennis Club, which goes under the M6, then another public footpath doubles back, leading to Winstanley Hall Cricket Club. You can look in to part of Gorsey Hill Wood from here. I made a visit early one morning this week, on the off-chance, even though it is on the opposite side of the M6 to where Jimmy heard his bird. Nuthatch and GSW, but no Lessers to be heard. Of course to have climbed over the barbed wire fence in to the wood would have been trespassing and very, very wrong....
