Pink-footed Geese 51 over north in 2 skeins, 19 at 09.23 and 32 at 09.35 Mandarin 6 Gadwall 1 Teal 62 (103 on 28th) Goldeneye 6 Stock Dove 27 Skylark 6 over > east Chiffchaff 2 Willow tit 1 on 28th
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Green Sandpiper 1 flew out from the Stromford Brook culvert under the access road Sand Martin 4 Blackcap 1 Chiffchaff 20 minimum Willow Tit singing opposite the Rugby Club 53.432807, -2.356122 Mandarin 2 pairs Goosander 1 pair Redpoll 18
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Mandarin Duck pair on river Gadwall pair on river Teal 12 on river (didn't check Stromford Brook) Little Grebe 2 on river Stock Dove 13 Treecreeper 1 Siskin 9
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Green Sandpiper 1. Super shy, as usual. I managed a couple of distant record shots before it flew towards the Sale Sewage Works pool. Possibly the returning bird from last winter with the red ring on the left tibia which had been ringed at Woolsten Eyes. Teal 33 Goosander pair Kingfisher heard Reed Bunting 1
1 x Kingfisher (m) on the edge of the Mersey. (near the area where someone has burnt all that driftwood that piled up after the February high water levels).
Ring Ouzel 1 male flew over west at 09.39 Green Woodpecker 1 heard Willow Warbler 5 Chiffchaff 12 Blackcap 14 Sand Martin 49 Mandarin 3 Shoveler 2 Gadwall 1 Teal 20 Linnet 2
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Mandarin pair Teal 6 Goosander 2 Green Sandpiper (1) two sightings of an individual, flying high downriver and later swimming on the Sale WTW pond Sparrowhawk 2 Willow Tit (3) or 3-5. Two together at 53.435093, -2.356867 and 3 together at 53.436485, -2.354321 Sand Martin 2 Chiffchaff 13 Blackcap 2 Goldcrest pair in courtship display Linnet 4
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Flushed a Woodcock off the old tip this morning , Teal numbers high Goldeneye x2 Mandarin x3 several Chiffhaffs singing around Banky meadow Willow tit and Reed bunting .
Goosanders 3 pair, one pair confirmed copulating and a single male all on stretch on Mersey between Ashton on mersey golf club and the green bridge at carrington spur
Kingfisher, Pied and Grey wagtail along river , GS woodpecker drumming on kickerty brook and Several Rooks repairing nests in Rookery ..
Green Sandpiper 1 again (see 20th December 2021) looks suspiciously like a red ring / flag on the left tibia Wigeon pair Teal 46 Goldeneye 6 Little Grebe 5 Willow Tit 3 together at 53.435182, -2.357312
Whooper Swan 3 adults flew low west along the course of the River Mersey at 12.29 Willow Tit 2, both at 53.435233, -2.356406 Brambling 1 Redpoll 3 Siskin 47
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Green Sandpiper 1 at the Mersey Little Egret 1 flew straight overhead and appeared to descend by the pool adjacent the sewage works (which is difficult to view) Pink-footed Geese 136 West at 10.45 Teal 10 Little Grebe 2 Raven 1 Redwing 24 Fieldfare 2 Siskin 8
Willow Tit 1 in the car park at 53.434000, -2.357178 Pink-footed Goose 33 > east at 11.56 Mandarin 1 female flew across field towards river Teal 14 Little Grebe 2 Rook 3 Redwing 76 Siskin 3
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3 egrets, almost certainly Little though they looked alarmingly large at one point but I was travelling in a rapidly moving vehicle, flew fairly low NE together over the Carrington Spur at 9am this morning, heading the the direction of Sale WP/Broad Ees Dole.