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Rob Thorpe


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Thursday 02 September 2010
06:45 - 09:15

VisMig (S/SW):
1 Cormorant (probably not a migrant to be honest)
14 Lapwing
3 Swallow
2 Alba Wagtail
2 Grey Wagtail
1 Tree Pipit (heard twice as it flew overhead, but I failed to see it)
6 Meadow Pipit
4 Linnet

Also in the area:
2 Snipe
16 Grey Partridge
6 Skylark
singing Chiffchaff

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Jimmy Meadows


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1 Whinchat
1 Wheatear
3 Snipe
3 Lapwing
20+Linnets
2 Sparrowhawks
1 Kestrel
10 Carrion Crows
22 Jackdaws
15 Meadow Pipits
1 Pied Wagtail
And 1 Hare put up by a dog walkerno.gif

Cheers Jimmy

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Rob Thorpe


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Sunday 29 August 2010
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1 Spotted Flycatcher in the sunken wood, north of Leyland Green Road.
Also here were 10+ Chiffchaff and a couple of Willow Warbler.

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Rob Thorpe


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Saturday 28 August 2010
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Whilst doing VisMig watch with Thorpe senior:
1 Redshank
flock of 19 Snipe over
1 Swift
1 Whinchat
1 Chiffchaff
flock of 68 Linnet

I'll put the actual VisMig results on the Trektellen website asap.


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dave broome


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A Merlin, probably a juvenile, was present this morning on a fence post, mobbed by a couple of Swallows before flying over Winstanley Road.
12 Meadow Pipits were around a slurry pile on the adjacent Gladden Hey Farm

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Jimmy Meadows


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This Morming
15 Linnets
13 Skylarks
1 Greenfinch
2 Goldfinch
5 Meadow Pipits
1 Kestrel
1 Unicyclist on the pathconfuse.gif

Adj Farm
50 + House Martins
12 Swallows
10 Swift

opp Sandyforth
3 Yellowhammers

Windy Arbour Farm
20+ Swallows
6 Greenfinch
10 House Sparrows

Cheers Jimmy

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Rob Thorpe


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2 Buzzards and at least 200 Lapwing this afternoon. Also, there was about 100 Lesser Black-backed Gulls in a field across the M6.

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Rob Thorpe


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Monday 18 May 2009

a Wheatear near Ryecroft Farm. Also loads of Yellowhammer about, a couple of Linnets, 2 Mistle Thrush and, in the "sunken wood", a Reed Warbler was singing.

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Rob Thorpe


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13 April 2008

14:00-17:30

3 Buzzard
2 Kestrel
2 Sparrowhawk
2 Swallow hanging about
2 Sand Martin over N
1 Curlew over E
6 Lapwing
2 Rook over
1 Chiffchaff
10 Mallard over
flock of 50+ Woodpigeon
and the never-ending stream of LBB Gulls with the odd H Gull thrown in, all heading NE

plus the usuals

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06 April 2008 13:00 - 16:00

OSPREY - flying North, high over Wigan at 14:30

over stuff from the "watchpoint":

Buzzard 3
Kestrel 2
LBB Gull - hundreds streaming North (from the Mersey?)
Cormorant 3
Jay 2
C.Crow 4
Stock Dove 1
Linnet 3
Pied Wagtail
Song Thrush 2
Starling 2
Mallard 3

stuff hanging about:

Little Grebe 1 on the largest pool
Coot 2
Moorhen 2
Mallard 1f
Lapwing 1 displaying
Woodpigeon 7
Magpie 2
Robin 5
Blackbird 3
Mistle Thrush 1
Dunnock 2
Mipit 14 in a tree together weirdface.gif
Skylark 2
Chaffinch 3
House Sparrow c10
L-t Tit 2

Very very cold!



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Rob Thorpe


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Looks really good for watching migration from up on top of the slag-heaps... You can see pretty much the whole of the county (well the western half anyway). I had the scope up there and you can see pennington flash, manchester, three sisters, horrocks flash, pearsons flash, scotmans flash, haigh hall, horwich moors etc etc etc... plus you can also see over to the mersey and the runcorn bridge. seems a good spot to watch for ospreys, marsh harriers etc moving north.

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That's in the process of being reclaimed for agriculture - lots of JCBs around. We had a look at the site a few years ago in the breeding season but nothing remarkable. The Buzzards are from a site nearby.

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07:30 - 10:00

at least 6 Buzzard (although 2 of them were in Merseyside)
4 Kestrel
3 Sparrowhawk
hundreds of LBB Gulls heading SW (towards R.Mersey?)
Common Gull
Herring Gull
BH Gull
Cormorant
G.Heron
Coot
Mallard
W.Pigeon
C.Dove
Lapwing (displaying)
C.Crow
Jackdaw
Skylark
Mipit
Pied Wagtail
Mistle Thrush
Willow Tit
LT Tit
10 Linnets (2 + 8) (about time i got them on my yearlist!)
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Yellowhammer
Reed Bunting

-- Edited by Rob Thorpe at 13:35, 2008-03-29

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