Altrincham sewage works

Tim Wilcox · Status: Offline

RE: Altrincham sewage works

Vaughan Evans · Status: Offline

2 Little Egrets roosting to east of path before the first pool.
40 ish Pied Wagtails
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Peregrine over low
1 Buzzard
4 Reed Buntings
Some ducks

Nice to see Tim @Tim - the 1 Egret we saw had been joined by another when I returned to the stables

-- Edited by Vaughan Evans on Saturday 21st of March 2015 06:00:04 PM

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Mallard 14
Moorhen 6
Teal 8
Coot 2
Gadwall 14
Shoveler 6m 2f
Pied Wagtails
Magpies
BH Gull 80+
Starlings
Stock Dove 1

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Shoveler 1m
Teal 5
Gadwall 10
Moorhen 1
Buzzard 1
Redwing 1
Pied Wagtail 40+
BH Gull 100+
Starling 10+
etc.

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Teal 35+
Moorhen 25+
Gadwall 18+
Shoveler 3
Mallard 4
Bullfinch 2m 3f.
Goldcrest 1
Starling 200+
BH Gull 70+
Herring Gull 1ad
Kestrel 1
Grey Wagtail 1
Pied Wagtail 80+
Linnet 8
Pheasant 8

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Moorhen 15+
Teal 9
Pied Wagtail 50+
Grey Wagtail 2
Meadow Pipit 1
Grey Heron 1
BH Gulls/Starlings/Magpies.

That's it!

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Friday morning.

Green Sandpiper 2
Teal 20+
Shoveler 5

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

8.10am

4 Redwing over

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

17.30 this evening

2 Green Sandpiper
3 Snipe
2 Teal
1 Chiifchaff
20+ Black-headed Gulls

Also 1 Fox trotting along the cycle path!

John Doherty · Status: Offline

This just-afternoon

6+ Teals
2 Green Sandpipers
minimum 2 Snipes
1 Buzzard
1 singing Chiffchaff

etc

All waders and the Teal were at the back of the works

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Thursday morning, September 18th.

House Martin 10+
Teal 3
Shoveler 1
Moorhen 8+
Willow Warbler 1
Reed Bunting 1
BH Gull 1
Garden Warbler 1 seen giving a long sub-warble in an elder bush along the Trans-Pennine path north of the ETW area.

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

17.00

A distinct clear out of summer migrants after last weeks gathering of warblers. But a few still around.

The same elder tree that last week held 8 Blackcaps today only held 2 (1m & 1f) plus 3 Chiffchaffs - all feasting on the berries.
2 Buzzard overhead mewing
2 Willow Tit

On the pools:
1 Green Sandpiper
8 Moorhen
2 Teal

No hirundines at all

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

16.30-17.00
An interesting half hour or so that proved if you stand still the birds will come to you!
I noticed some movement in an Elder tree alongside the cycle path. As I watched 8 Blackcaps (6f & 2m) were gorging on the berries in the same tree. Also with them were a couple of Chiffchaffs. There were other elder trees in the area which contained 2 Whitethroats eating berries and at least 12 more Chiffchaffs flitting around. Obviously all getting ready to migrate. Also present were 3 Willow Tits, 6 Blue Tits, 4 LT Tits, 1 Jay, 1 Mistle Thrush. Lots of other birds were calling from the surrounding brambles and trees. Overhead 10 Swallows, 4 House Martins heading south.

On the pools:
2 Snipe
20+ Lapwing
5 Teal
8 Moorhen

Also:
1 Buzzard
1 Kestrel

A very pleasant time!

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

4.30pm

1 Green Sandpiper
1 Buzzard
2 Teal
7 Gadwall
A few Swallows and House Martins (many more yesterday!)

This morning at 8.10am:
3 Chiffchaff singing !!

Lots of mud on both front and middle pools.

steven burke · Status: Offline

2 spotted flycatchers currently feeding at the back of the middle pool.
3 green sandpipers
7 shovelers
5 gadwalls
20 teal
1 whitethroat

also to add...

1 little grebe
1 pheasant
9 whitethroats
4 willow warblers
1 kestrel
1 sparrowhawk
a nice tit flock was heading towards me as I was leaving heading up the path towards swiss cottage farm consisting of........
long tailed tits
blue tits
willow tit, heard only
at least 6 willow warblers
1 chiffchaff
1 blackcap
1 goldcrest
probably more in the flock.
lots of house martins & swallows around.
smile

-- Edited by steven burke on Saturday 30th of August 2014 09:48:30 PM

-- Edited by steven burke on Saturday 30th of August 2014 10:00:12 PM

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Green Sandpiper 2
BH Gull 3
Shoveler 9
Moorhen 15+
Teal 12+
Mallard 1

Rob Creek · Status: Offline

Hi Keith.
What a great site this is. As Tony's post indicates it's good for Wagtails and various other birds including Waders, but also just weeks ago it was alive with a lot of different species of Warbler, and also Ducks and other various interesting water birds, it's well worth a visit.
See earlier posts
:)

-- Edited by Rob Creek on Tuesday 19th of August 2014 08:54:21 PM

Tony Darby · Status: Offline

Hi Keith, I've only just caught up with your post.
Head for the re-cycling centre off Sinderland Road, turn into Woodcote Road, turn right after the bridge and park up in the lay-by just after the main entrance
into the re-cycling centre. Walk back to Woodcote Road, turn right and carry on through the horse paddocks (whilst checking for various wagtails) onto the
first pool. Turn right after the first pool and on to the middle pool; the access to which very overgrown. Good luck.

keithridley · Status: Offline

hi tony how would i get to the sewage works i only live in timperley but dont know the area that well ta keith

Tony Darby · Status: Offline

2 Green Sandpipers still on the middle pool, and a bit more gardening done.
6 mostly juvenile Pied Wagtails on the horse paddocks.

Elsewhere, pretty quiet including the clegs which, mercifully, were absent.
Yellowhammer carrying food, Kestrel, Buzzard and a decent number of Willow Warblers plus a few Chiffchaffs flycatching
behind MUFC.

-- Edited by Tony Darby on Friday 15th of August 2014 04:48:41 PM

Ian Boote · Status: Offline

several yellowhammer, 2 green sandpiper on the pools, 50 lapwing in a fields, buzzard and oystercatcher overhead.

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

4.40pm Mediterranean Gull flew off east with 5 BH Gulls

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 16th of July 2014 10:41:35 PM

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

4.35pm

1 adult Med Gull on middle pool perched on round metal object in the centre of the pool as of 4.35pm
2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
c.40 Black-headed Gulls
1 Green Sandpiper - front pool
3 Teal

Also male Broad Bodied Chaser dragonfly

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

4.00pm

5 Green Sandpipers on middle pool - all stood next to each other
1 Sparrowhawk (m)
1 Garden Warbler - singing along the path at usual spot but remained hidden
2 Sedge Warbler - 1 singing
c.40 Black headed Gull on middle pool
2 Yellowhammer

Also - butterflies included: 2 Comma, 1 Gatekeeper, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Large Skipper, 2 Small Tortoishells

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

4.15pm

1 Green Sandpiper - middle pool.
1 Blackcap - singing
1 Chiffchaff - singing

Viewing difficult to middle pool due to tall vegetation

Nev Wright · Status: Offline

3 Green Sandpipers on 1st pool yesterday pm.

Tony Darby · Status: Offline

A machete would be helpful in quite a few areas we go birding in at this time of year Steve; I only had a pair of small pruning
shears with me today. smile

Steve Scrimgeour · Status: Offline

Glad you did Tony, I also did bit more tonight and made a bit of room, one might have to take a machete next time..
Highlights tonight 1915 - 2100hrs

2 Green Sandpipers on 2nd pool
1Kingfisher on 1st pool

1 juvenile Moorhen 2nd pool
2 juvenile Coots on pools 1 & 2
Couple of large broods of Mallards pools 1 & 2

Several Reed Bunting around the mast.

Also large family party of 12 Long Tailed Tits on path back towards Pennine trail...

-- Edited by Steve Scrimgeour on Monday 30th of June 2014 05:30:45 AM

Tony Darby · Status: Offline

The 2 Green Sandpipers were still present this afternoon, although I had to do a bit of gardening to get a view.

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

4.30-4.45pm

2 Green Sandpiper - middle pool
1 Oystercatcher
1 Lapwing
1 Blackcap - singing
1 Reed Warbler - singing
3 family parties of Long-tailed Tits
2 Reed Bunting
1 Whitethroat

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Garden Warbler 1 singing.
Green Sandpiper 2
Teal 3m 1f
Tufted Duck 1m 1f
Gadwalls
Mallards
Grey Heron 3
Coots
Moorhens
Oystercatcher 1
House Martin 4
BH Gull 1 ad.
Lapwing 1
Reed Bunting 3 singing.
Song Thrush 2 singing.
Reed Warbler 1 singing.
Grey Wagtail 1
Pied Wagtail 1
Stock Dove 1
etc.

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

5.15pm

A few warblers beginning to sing again. Possibly trying for a second brood?

1 Grasshopper Warbler still reeling from the overgrown bed west of cycle path but unable to see due to tall vegetation next to path.
1 Garden Warbler - also singing alongside the path but again couldn't see it.
1 Reed Warbler singing and seen
1 Sedge Warbler
3 Whitethroat
1 Bullfinch - male

unable to view middle pool due to thick undergrowth.

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

8.10am
1 reeling Grasshopper Warbler this morning but remained hidden from view.

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Wednesday, June 11.

Green Sandpiper 1
Mallard 45+
Gadwall 5
Tufted Duck 1m
Coot 2ad + 3juv
Moorhen 2ad + 3juv
Canada Geese 11ad + 5juv
House Martin 4
Sand Martin 1
Reed Warbler 2 singing.
Reed Bunting 2 singing.
Whitethroat 2 singing.
Jay 1
BH Gull 1
etc.

PHIL GREENWOOD · Status: Offline

Early pm in heavy rain shower:

Swift 100+
House Martin 50+
Swallow 10+
Sand Martin 10+
Willow Tit 1 singing.
Reed Warbler 3 singing.
Reed Bunting 4 singing.
Tufted Duck 2m 1f.
Gadwall 12+
Mute Swan 2 adults.
Little Grebe 3
Willow Warbler 2 singing.
Whitethroat 2 singing.
Cormorant 1 over.
BH Gull 1 imm.
Mallard 20+
Canada Geese.
Coots.
Garden Warbler 1 singing.
Blackcap 1 singing.
Chiffchaff 1 singing.

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

5.35pm
1 Hobby came racing through at full speed. I had one at exactly the same time to the minute here last Wednesday as well!
Also:
1 Reed Warbler
1 Sedge Warbler
3 Blackcap
2 Whitethroat
1 Kestrel
Plus an adult Long tailed Tit feeding a youngster a huge green caterpillar!

-- Edited by Steven Nelson on Wednesday 21st of May 2014 07:21:57 PM

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

Quick cycle past this morning 8.10am:-

1 Yellowhammer (m)
1 Bullfinch (f)
Singing Sedge & Reed Warbler
1 Whitethroat

Steve Scrimgeour · Status: Offline

0945-1015
Lots of Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler and Reed Bunting all around the mast, until a Kestrel and Buzzards perched nearby.
6 Tufted Duck pool 2
4 Gadwall pool 2
2 Coots with Chicks on both 2 & 3, also 1 on first pool.

No wagtails of any kind in Donkey paddock, Although nice to see lots of goslings.

Bullfinch m
Songthrush pair
Chiffchaffs

All seen on way back down path towards Danewell Woods.

Cheers..

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

5.15pm-5.40pm

1 Hobby at 5.35pm this evening. Circled a few times then drifted off south towards Woodcote Stables.

Also:
1 Sedge Warbler showing well
1 Reed Warbler - heard
1 Coot with 1 young
2 Tufted Duck - pair
8 Gadwall
c.10 Canada Geese

Steven Nelson · Status: Offline

8.10am
1 Garden Warbler singing and briefly showing along Trans Peninne Trail
2 Reed Warbler singing - 1 showing well

Tony Darby · Status: Offline

Of interest:
The Garden Warbler over towards the Racecourse Estate now has a partner, so hopefully there'll be a successful breeding
outcome. The others around the Trans-Pennine Trail were keeping their heads down unfortunately.
Beyond the recycling centre:
c40 Starlings inc. c12 juvs being fed in the bushes.
5 Linnets, 1 carrying nesting material.
Large numbers off common warblers still showing in the scrubland + a Grasshopper Warbler heard near the pylon.
3 pairs of Canada Geese with 20 goslings between them in the horse paddocks.
12 House Martins at the stables.

Tony Coatsworth · Status: Offline

Garden Warbler showed well alongside the trans-Pennine trail by the side of the mast.

Little Grebe
6 Gadwall
2 Tufted
4 Mallard

No Garganey

2 Oystercatcher circling round

2 Buzzard
1 Kestrel

20+ Swift over
Good numbers of Sand and House Martins
3 Pied Wagtails

No Yellow Wagtails

No Redstarts

Sedge Warbler singing from nearly every perch
Common Whitethroat all around the mast area
Blackcap

-- Edited by Tony Coatsworth on Monday 5th of May 2014 11:53:30 AM

steven burke · Status: Offline

Rob Creek wrote:

Good to meet Steven Burke yet again!

Took a chance on the Redstart, and on arriving, Steven was already on the bird. I got out of the car and he said 'I think it's a Black Redstart Rob'.
I was in total agreement, the overall hue of the bird...a darkish charcoal colour with darkening around the face area. It was doing a spot of fly catching from a distant post near the filtration tanks.
What a brilliant spot this was Steve, well done mate!

Other birds of note:
A group of Pied Wagtails that included a striking male Yellow Wagtail and a female too.
1 Grey Wagtail.
2 Sedge Warblers.
1 Whitethroat (m).
2 Blackcap (m).
Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler heard only.
Plenty of Swallows.
Some House and Sand Martins.
2 Swift.
1 Sparrowhawk being followed by a large flock of probably Finches/Tits.
1 Buzzard.
2 Little Grebe.
A few Gadwall.
1 Oystercatcher.

No sign of the Garganey or Garden Warbler.

cheers rob, good to meet you again, i'm glad you & another chap got a look a the bird to convince me even more that it was a black redstart, the bird always looked grey.
sightings much the same as robs with lots of warblers in song & I did manage to catch up with the garden warbler on my way back, watched for at least 10 mins wink

the 2 swifts were my first of the year, 2 weeks late hmm

Laurence Hopkins · Status: Offline

Hi Rob. Yes, i thought it was a Garden Warbler, but it was very skulking- as they tend to be. Brilliant song, though! Lots of Whitethroat activity round the back of the works.

Rob Creek · Status: Offline

Good to meet Steven Burke yet again!

Took a chance on the Redstart, and on arriving, Steven was already on the bird. I got out of the car and he said 'I think it's a Black Redstart Rob'.
I was in total agreement, the overall hue of the bird...a darkish charcoal colour with darkening around the face area. It was doing a spot of fly catching from a distant post near the filtration tanks.
What a brilliant spot this was Steve, well done mate!

Other birds of note:
A group of Pied Wagtails that included a striking male Yellow Wagtail and a female too.
1 Grey Wagtail.
2 Sedge Warblers.
1 Whitethroat (m).
2 Blackcap (m).
Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler heard only.
Plenty of Swallows.
Some House and Sand Martins.
2 Swift.
1 Sparrowhawk being followed by a large flock of probably Finches/Tits.
1 Buzzard.
2 Little Grebe.
A few Gadwall.
1 Oystercatcher.

No sign of the Garganey or Garden Warbler.

Ian McKerchar · Status: Offline

The Redstart in the Donkey paddocks looks now to be a Black Redstart.

Info thanks to Steven Burke

Andy Bissitt · Status: Offline

2 common terns went through at c 10.15 which appear to be pretty uncommon visitors for here. Didn't see garganey.

Ian McKerchar · Status: Offline

Female Redstart in the Donkey paddocks at 2:45 today

Info thanks to Steven Burke

Tanmay Dixit · Status: Offline

Thanks a lot Andrew and Nev.
If I've got this right, I should walk down the path with the pools on my right and the reeds on my left. I know that you can either carry on on this path or turn right into what I think is some scrubland - is this what you mean?

Andrew Mitchell · Status: Offline

An hour and a half this morning from 9.30 to 11am, in excellent warm, sunny conditions.

No Garganey this time but I wasn't really looking, preferring to concentrate on warblers. Tanmay - Nev is spot on with his advice, but when you get to the site you will notice that there is warbler song everywhere, it's a cracking place for these birds. Follow your ears and be prepared to strain yourself looking into brambles!

Seen:

1 Garden Warbler, giving good views and singing. This one was just off the mud path around the back of the mast, flitting from the scrubland to one of the flowering trees. Another was singing on the trans pennine trail in the scrub, but I didn't glimpse that one.
Sedge Warbler - several, some being showy and loud in the reeds that the mud path cuts through
Whitethroat - again several and easy to see in virtually all areas
Chiffchaff - several calling

Heard: Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Reed Warbler.

Others:

Little Grebe - a couple on Pool 1
Gadwall - on Pool 2
Swallow, House Martin and Sand Martin over the pools and works. Some Swallows perched on the telephone wires near the stables giving good views.
Swift - 2 or 3 seen, my first of the year
Buzzard - 2 circling over the works as I was leaving
Reed Bunting - 2

Nice to meet Tim Wilcox and see plenty other birders down there.