Hi John, it's either Watson St or Lowe St, you will see the sign for Broomstairs Nurseries, drive up to near the entrance of the little garden centre / nurseries and park up. Go through the 2 gates and it was in the field on the left with some Canada Geese. It was quite a distance out but Iv got a few shots of it if you want to private message your email address.

Parked up next to the Broomstairs Nurseries and in the 1st field on the left was a Brent Goose feeding with some Canada Geese and Woodpigeons.
Other birds of note : Sparrowhawk, Dipper, Kingfisher, Goosander, Grey Wagtail, Treecreeper, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

Hiya Vicky, the Jet Amber Fields tend to be posted on the "River Tame Dukinfield Sewarge works to Ivy Cottages. Haughton Green" thread ....... but this is a really long stretch of river ......... so I use the Haughton Dale thread for downstream of Broomstair Bridge through to Reddish which ties in with the official site titles.

Roger.

Wednesday 6th March. 14.00 - 16.30 hrs.

R, Tame. Mill Lane to Apethorn Lane.

Cold and windy ....... passerines conspicuous by their absence.

15 Teal (4 pairs and 7 single drakes.
4 pairs Mallard.
1 Goosander (red-head).
1 Jay.
1 Grey Wagtail.
1 Nuthatch.
Bullfinch (think pair) heard but not seen.

No sign of pollution, thankfully. Saying this, there were a few workmen on the opposite bank (upstream of the iron bridge) backfilling on some work they had been doing to a culvert exit. Looked like it had been a bit of a major operation judging by some of the machinery they had winched back up the the hill.

Roger.


-- Edited by Roger Baker 3 on Thursday 7th of March 2013 02:38:03 PM

Same species as yesterday minus the Kingfisher and Dipper

In addition today:

3 Buzzard giving a fantastic aerial display above.
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel
2 Mandarin (m + f) in the river behind Broomstairs garden centre (not seen along this part of the river before)
3 Goldeneye (f)
2 Lesser Black Backed gull on pond in Jet Amber Fields
2 Heron (1 adult + 1 juvenile) I got good video footage of the adult heron 10ft in front (not phased by dog walkers passing). It hunted a frog and then walked up the banking and threw the frog several times onto the ground. It then picked up the frog and walked along the footpath before walking back down the banking. It then washed the frog down with some pond water. Yummy!!
Lots of Treecreeper and Goldcrest about today

The river was coated with oil/petrol today around Haughton Green where the Teal and Little Grebe were fishing. I've never noticed it before but it was particularly noticable today.

Walked my local patch froum Haughton Dale Woodley to Amber Jet Fields and then along the canal to Ashton-Under-Lyne yesterday.

The woodland area behind Haughton Green was buzzing with birds at sunrise. The areas around the canal was very quiet.

Dunnock
Robin
House Sparrow
Starlings
Collared Dove
Wood Pigeon
Blue tit
Great tit
Long-Tailed Tit
Coal tit
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Bullfinch
Numerous flocks of Goldfinch
1 Goldcrest
Nuthatch
Treecreeper
3 + Great Spotted Woodpecker heard and seen. (1 in a tree directly above sounded like it was Yaffling!!!) I checked the tree and it was the only bird I could see.
Dipper
Kingfisher
Goosander
Little Grebe
Canada Geese
Mallard
Teal
(No sign of Pink-Footed or Goldeneye today)
Heron
Cormorant (flyover)
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Blackbird
Numerous Black-headed Gulls around Dukinfield sewage works but nothing else of note
Carrrion Crow
Jackdaw

No sign of any raptors!!

4+ Dipper
3 Cormorant
3 Heron
20+Bullfinch
3 Charms of Goldfinch
6 Chaffinch
1 Stonechat
12 Siskin
4+ Little Grebe
15 Teal
5 Goldeneye
1 Pink-footed goose
6 + Song Thrush
20 + Redwing
Usual Tit Flocks
3 Jay
1 Buzzard
3 Treecreeper
Numerous Nuthatch
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (on feeder in someones front garden. was tempted to take pics but as the feeder was in front of their front window was worried I might be arrested as a peeping Tom

Great sized tit sized bird with black cap possibly Blackcap (didn't get good views but managed to get a photo.

-- Edited by Vicky Sumner on Wednesday 16th of January 2013 03:44:40 PM

2 Dipper
1 Grey Wagtail
Numerous Song Thrush
15 Siskin
5 Lesser Redpoll
10+ House Sparrow
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Green Woodpecker (lifetime tick)
11 Teal
5 Goldeneye
Canada Geese but no sign of Pink Footed Goose today
Edit: forgot

1 Little Grebe
2 Goosander
1 Sparrowhawk with a Carrion Crow grabbing onto its tail whilst in flight

-- Edited by Vicky Sumner on Friday 11th of January 2013 12:30:36 PM

2 + Dipper
20+ Siskin
1 Teal
+ usuals

Sparrowhawk
Harris Hawk (No jesses seen)
2 Dipper
2 Goosander (male & female)

+ all the regulars

Robin & Simon

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 12th of February 2012 08:02:24 PM

11.30-2.00
nice walk & pond dipping
3 woodpigeon
2 sparrowhawk
1 goosander
5 mallard
2 wren
7 blue tit
4 canada geese
2 robin
3 jay
5 great tit
2 moorhen
1 greylag?
2 magpie
1 chiffchaff
nuthatch & blackcap singing plus many tits/chiffchaff in trees

Saturday 26th April 08
3-6pm loads of fun pond dipping with kids, though didn't walk too far
6 Magpies
2 Moorhen
4 mallard
3 robin
4 blue tit
7 great tit
3 long tail tits
3 chiffchaff seen, many more calling
6 carrion crow
7 green finch
1 jay
1 grey wagtail on river
6 blackbird
1 grey heron
3 collared doves
8 wood pigeon
1 house sparrow
1 starling
1 canada goose
Many more singing- too busy pond dipping!
Rae