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4.45pm - quick 10min check
3 Green Sandpipers
5 Lapwing
2 Heron
7 Gadwall
15+ Teal

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Steven Nelson


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4.30-5.00pm
2 Green Sandpipers
5 Lapwing
2 Buzzard over
1 Kestrel
1 Willow Warbler
8 Linnet over north
1 Heron
10+ Teal

This morning, quick 5 min check at 8.10am
0 Green Sandpiper
9 Gadwall
5 Meadow Pipit over south

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Steven Nelson


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5.00-5.20pm quick stop on way home from work.

Water level very low. Plenty of mud on front pool. This attracted:
33 Lapwing
2 Green Sandpipers

Middle pool
2 more Green Sandpipers
1 Heron

One Green Sand from front pool eventually flew off high SW.

Also continual passage of Swallows south - over 100 in 20mins. Also c.10 House Martins and 1 Swift with them.

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15/09/2011 - 12pm: 2 Green Sandpipers still and a late Swift over.

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13/09/2011 - 2 Green Sandpipers present this afternoon and a single Raven over. The juvenile Little Grebe has taken to dabbling like a Teal as the water is now so shallow.

-- Edited by Henry Cook on Tuesday 13th of September 2011 09:31:02 PM

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10/09/2011 - 3 Green Sandpipers still present. Lots of mud on all three pools but no other waders for a while now.

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05/09/2011 - 12pm: 1 Hobby again, 3 Green Sandpipers, 1 Yellow Wagtail and House Martins still with young in the nest.

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2.30-3.30pm

2 green sandpipers
7 yellow wagtails (in first pool)
1 pied wagtail
8 lapwings
3 grey heron
5 buzzards (over all at once)
2 reed buntings
3 whitethroats
teals/mallards/moorhens & b-h gulls
swallows & house martins over

1 weasel (near the boulders at gate)

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Henry Cook


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04/09/2011 - 11am: 3 Green Sandpipers still and 1 Willow Tit

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02/09/2011 - 5-6pm:

1 Hobby - adult chasing House Martins low over Woodcote Farm, first bird I saw as I arrived and continued to put on a great show overhead.
3 Green Sandpipers
c40 Teals
1 Shoveler
2 Gadwall

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30/08/2011 - One Green Sandpiper today and hundreds of hirundines (mainly Swallows) over the filter beds.

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28/8 1450

3 Green Sandpiper
20 Teal
1 juv Little Grebe


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Henry Cook


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26/08/2011 - 3-4pm before the rain:

1 Shoveler
4 Gadwalls
28 Teals
5 Green Sandpipers
1 Sparrowhawk - juv, different bird to the other day
1 Stock Dove

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Steven Nelson


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12.30pm quick visit. Pretty quiet generally.
Highlights being:

2 Green Sandpipers
1 Swift over

Nice to meet Henry Cook.

-- Edited by Steven Nelson on Thursday 25th of August 2011 08:32:18 PM

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Grammatically I think it is half a buzzard, not half a buzzards....

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2 Green Sandpipers
1 Shoveler
21 Teal
1 GS Woodpecker
1/2 Buzzards
2 singing Chiffchaffs
4 Bh gulls


Also 2 falcons flying together, seen briefly, probably Kestrels

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Henry Cook


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24/08/2011 - 9 Green Sandpipers this morning, a couple of which flew in during a shower.

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23/08/2011 - 11am-12pm:

3 Green Sandpipers
1 Sparrowhawk

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Henry Cook


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21/08/2011 - Green Sandpiper count increased to 4 this evening. Quiet otherwise.

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21/08/2011 - 6-10am

3 Green Sandpipers
1 Little Grebe
3 Gadwalls
26 Teals
1 Kestrel
1 Common Swift - flew in from the north, fed over the pools briefly and headed quickly off south, great to see migration in action like this
3 Grey Wagtails
4 Blackcaps
1 Garden Warbler
3 Willow Warblers
21 Chiffchaffs
16 Whitethroats
1 Reed Warbler
1 Willow Tit

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Henry Cook


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It probably was the same bird Ollie, yeah. Called in this morning but no sign of egret or any sandpipers.



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Just out of curiosity, I wonder if that was the same Little Egret which was recently at Broad Ees Dole?

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19/08/2011 - 1 juv Little Egret present this evening on the 3rd pool.
The only other birds of note were the 4 Green Sandpipers still faithful to the 2nd pool which is nearly dried up now.

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Mid afternoon, August 17.

Shoveler 1
Teal 6+
Green Sandpiper 2
Lapwing 1juv
Grey Heron 2
Little Grebe 1ad + ijuv
Swallow 10+
House Martin 30+
Pied Wagtail 10+
etc.etc.etc.

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yesterday

4 Green Sandpiper
3 Yellow Wagtail

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Monday 15th August 11:30am

1 Green Sand, 1 Shoveler, 20 Teal, 2 Little Grebe

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Ian Campbell wrote:

ps wasn't that happy being close to Stretford Utd's training ground




You could have walked on another 750m and found yourself at Stockport City's copycat training ground next door!

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Spotted Flycatcher at the top of birch trees on the path towards Altrincham ETW adjacent to field 16 at 4:20ish.

A late post due to there being no forum access from mobile phones for some reason and me being at work all day.

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 15th of August 2011 10:45:30 PM

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13/08/2011 - Followed up a report of a Pied Flycatcher just north of the works by the united training ground but couldn't find the thing between 6.30 and 8pm. Stuff seen in the area:

2 Shovelers
17 Teals
4 Gadwalls
4 Green Sandpipers
20+ Swallows
1 House Martin
2 Sand Martins
26 Swifts - heading south quite rapidly
1 Yellowhammer


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11/08/2011 - Pretty much identical to yesterday's sightings but a Common Swift flew through heading SW after a period of drizzle.

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10/08/2011 - Quick check in the rain this evening:

1 Little Grebe - plus juv doing well
16 Teals
2 Gadwalls
1 Shoveler
4 Green Sandpipers
1 Common Snipe
1 Little Ringed Plover
6 Lapwings
c300 hirundines (similar quantities of Swallows, House Martins and Sand Martins)

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08/08/2011 - Down to 4 Green Sandpipers this morning and a thorough soaking!

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07/08/2011 - 7 Green Sandpipers and 2 Little Ringed Plovers this afternoon.

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This morning:

5 Green Sandpiper
1 Shoveler
7 Teal

Info thanks to James Walsh

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blockquote>sid ashton wrote:

Ian the Green Sandpipers have been on the middle pool which is up the small hill beyond that pond you viewed through the fence. Don't know if that's where you looked.



Cheers for that Sid, no I didn't look there, that will teach me to be better prepared in future

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Ian the Green Sandpipers have been on the middle pool which is up the small hill beyond that pond you viewed through the fence. Don't know if that's where you looked.



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My first visit to this site this afternoon, parked at Woodcote farm where it was good to see lots of Swallow and House Martin walked up the lane to view the pond on the right through the fence, 30+ Lapwing on mud but no sign of any Sandpiper, Buzzard calling but I couldn't see it. Walked on to Aston Road turned left here then crossed Birch Road and found 7 or 8 Yellowhammer in hedgerow here. Back near the sewage works a Yellow Wagtail in field with horses.
Cheers Ian
ps wasn't that happy being close to Stretford Utd's training ground

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Yesterday 16.10

2 Green Sandpiper
3 Little-ringed Plover
Little Grebe with 1 juvenile

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Saturday 30th July

3 Green Sandpipers this morning
1 Kestrel sat on a telegraph pole
1 Little Grebe on the first tank

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Sightings from this morning:

1 Green Sandpiper
1 Yellow Wagtail
4 Shoveler
13 Lapwing
1 Yellowhammer
12 Gadwall
2 Little Grebe

Info thanks to James Walsh

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27/07/2011 - 6 Green Sandpipers present this afternoon and a Cormorant on the first lake.

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Saturday 23rd July 9.00am

4 Green Sandpipers
2 Grey Heron
8 Lapwings
6 Reed Buntings
1 Sedge Warbler
10 Pied Wagtails
1 Buzzard
lots of juvenile Whitethroats and Goldfinches

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21/07/2011 - 1pm:

1 Shoveler
2 Teals
2 Gadwalls
3 Green Sandpipers
1 Oystercatcher
2 Lapwings
1 Kingfisher
2 Grasshopper Warblers
1 Reed Warbler

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8.10am
5 Green Sandpiper
1 reeling Grasshopper Warbler

5.00-5.30pm
6 Green Sandpiper
2 Buzzards including 1 bird low over the pools causing panic amongst the ducks then rising high to join another on the thermals
1 Chiffchaff
2 Stock Dove
Family parties of Whitethroat, Blue, Great & LT Tits

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Similar sightings to Ann although 6 Green Sandpipers were present both times I passed.

1 Grasshopper Warbler seen well and at least 3 other birds reeling in this general area.

All three wagtail species present with young.

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5 Green sandpipers visible this morning, large family of common Whitethroats very active in the apple tree, 2 reeling grasshopper warblers in the flowering dock beyond the viewing area for the pool, also lesser whitethroat, reed buntings, sedge warbler, willow warbler, 1 Hedge Brown and 1 Meadow Brown butterflies (would have expected more).

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Tuesday, 19th July pm.

Green Sandpiper 6
Oystercatcher 1
Lapwing 1
Little Grebe 2ad 2yng
Grasshopper Warbler 1 short song
Sedge Warbler 1
Reed Bunting 1 singing
Canada Geese
BH Gulls
Mallards
Gadwalls
Coots
Moorhens
Collared Dove 1
Pied Wagtail 1

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Sunday 17th July early afternoon

6 Green Sandpipers
2 Lapwing



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16/07/2011 - 2pm, heavy rain dropped a few things in this afternoon:

1 Redshank
6 Green Sandpipers
1 Oystercatcher
12 Lapwings
c30 Pied Wagtails - mainly juvs
1 Redstart - fem in scrub north of pools
1 Grasshopper Warbler
1 Reed Warbler

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8.10am
Just 1 Green Sandpiper
2 Grey Wagtails (adult male & juv)

5.30pm
2 Green Sandpipers
1 Grey Wag (male)
3 LR Plovers
1 Buzzard over
Gadwall brood of 8 half grown young and female

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