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PHIL GREENWOOD


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2 Stock Doves in my Flixton garden, plus a Song Thrush.

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Karen Foulkes


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A Buzzard was seen flying west, from my Droylsden flat at 12.30 today.

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pete berry


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Just watching a Buzzard thermalling about over the back garden when an HOBBY flew right past it and circled on the same thermal for a few seconds before powering off north.

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pete berry


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Just had a Swallow fly into the house,managed to open windows in back room and it flew back out !!!

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Colin Broadhurst


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Persuaded to stay at home and do some gardening however a small bonus with a flyover Curlew. A first for this Atherton garden



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pete berry


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5 minutes after the tern a Swift flew over garden(first one of year for me)

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A Common Tern north over the back garden just now.

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290425 Garden Watch which started @ 0745 and ran intermittently until 1730...Irlam south

All 31 species noted below...

2 Robin

4 Carrion Crow

2 House Sparrow

2 Great Tit

2 Blackbird...a pair which spent quite a while trying to distract a local cat from taking their young (nest not in my garden) why oh why can't Cat owners keep their pets indoors in the daytime in the breeding season???

4 Greenfinch...1 in display flight

11 Goldfinch

7 Woodpigeon 

1 Dunnock

2 Long-Tailed Tit

1 Swallow

1 Buzzard

1 Grey wagtail

6 Feral Pigeon

6 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

1 Chiffchaff...in song nearby

1 Collared Dove in display flight

4 Starling (really??? they used to be counted in their 10's at this time of the year around our estate)

2 Blue Tit

1 Common Tern

4 Magpie

3 Black-Headed Gull

2 Mallard

2 Linnet

1 Cormorant



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Ian McKerchar


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Male Whitethroat back singing around the Astley garden this afternoon



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Gordon Newman


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3 Screaming Swifts back this morning.... Leigh

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Bar tailed godwits were heard over my flixton garden last night at 11.26pm.

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I was mothing at 12:10am when I clearly heard a Cuckoo call twice. It wasn't close, but it was otherwise very quiet and still. I presume it was on passage.

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Gordon Newman


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Leigh, 24th @ 09.00 1 Little Egret flew over N, 25th 1 Hobby flew SE over the garden @ 17.05 not that the local Starlings were impressed

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24th @ 09.00 1 Little Egret flew over N, 25th 1 Hobby flew SE over the garden @ 17.05 not that the local Starlings were impressed!

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Bury . Chiffchaff and blackcap singing , not seen . Awaiting willow warbler .
Alas , the very oft-visiting sparrowhawk and great spotted woodpecker not seen for two weeks . Could this mean they are on territory elsewhere ? Any ideas , please !



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Ian McKerchar


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Pair of Linnets lingering in the hedgerow and field at the back of my Astley garden this afternoon with the male even singing!



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pete berry


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A Blackcap singing in next doors garden in their blossom tree and another one singing back at it from the trees on the green in front of our house. Chiffchaff still singing nearby as well.

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A male Pheasant wandering round back garden just now. Also a singing Blackcap and Chiffchaff from bottom of garden and a singing Willow Warbler from front of house on the village green opposite.

-- Edited by pete berry on Tuesday 15th of April 2025 04:59:20 PM

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Since our return from Malta our Blackcaps have left our Stockport garden.

An interesting encounter for Cath yesterday was a bird call from the magnolia in the garden she grabbed her phone and got onto the Merlin app and it showed as a Ring Ouzel, looking into the tree she saw a dark Blackbird shape but the sun was in her eyes and then it was gone....

Over the years we have had Ring Ouzel at Crowden so she has an ear but was suprised by the call in our urban garden.

Any thoughts on the Merlin app ?



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Bullfinch pair in my garden yesterday, only see these here once every 2 years or so. Also several singing Blackcap in recent days

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Ian McKerchar


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House Martin over my Astley garden just now, seemed to be lingering, perhaps already back on territory!?



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Gordon Newman


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30+ Sand Martin S @18.06 Leigh

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fredford


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First chiffchaff of the season ! Hurrah ! Heard not seen .

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2 Sand martin over the garden in Stalybridge this afternoon



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2 Chiffchaffs today singing from bottom of garden. Also 2 Buzzards over being mobbed by resident Raven.

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Red Kite seen from my ground floor flat in Droylsden a few minutes ago drifting above the canal in the direction of Manchester. Mega biggrin

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A Chiffchaff singing from land behind back garden this morning.

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2 new birds for our Atherton garden ....both flyovers

2 x Sand martin at 7.00pm yesterday and 1 x Ring Necked Parakeet this morning at 9.00am



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Female blackbird collecting nest material then disappearing into the hedge . Lovely !

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pete berry


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Just been watching a pure white finch type bird feeding on dropped seed in the back garden. Don't know if it's an escaped cage bird or just an albino finch sp. Poor photo as I just took it through my phone.

-- Edited by pete berry on Sunday 23rd of March 2025 03:35:13 PM

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130325...Irlam South Garden Watch...awaiting a delivery....never waste a moment to Birdwatch!....0800-1100

Twenty Two Species In an Over the Garden...

3 Blue Tit

4 Great Tit

3 Mallard

1 Dunnock...in song

5 Woodpigeon

1 Collared Dove...in Display Flight

3 Jackdaw

3 House Sparrow

11 Starling

9 Feral Pigeon

9 Canada Geese @ 0935

1 Bullfinch

1 Robin

5 Carrion Crow

3 Blackbird...2 Male 1 Female

14 Goldfinch

3 Greenfinch

3 Chaffinch

4 Black-Headed Gull

1 Herring Gull

2 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

1 Buzzard @ 0920



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fredford


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A first . A rook after fallen nuts under the feeders . Perhaps emboldened by seeing magpies doing same .

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Male Blackcap in our Atherton garden this morning on the fat balls. With Goldfinch, Bullfinch, Coal Tit, Greenfinch, Blue and Great Tit



-- Edited by Colin Broadhurst on Wednesday 12th of March 2025 08:19:50 AM

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A new bird for my flixton garden, ring-necked parakeet on my feeders, just the one but I'm sure it bring more friends.

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A singing Chiffchaff just beyond back garden this afternoon

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About 60 Redwing sat in trees at bottom of the garden,a lot in sub song. 2 Nuthatch on the feeders,the Stock Dove back in again and a Buzzard right over the garden low down.

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2 Tree Sparrows again in the garden this morning .

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Red-legged partridge sat on the neighbours shed this morning in Stalybridge...



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In our Stockport garden the female Blackcap is  still a regular every day since our last post, she has now been joined by a male most of this week. Blackbird numbers are still in double figures just (10) plus the usuals. 



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We had a songthrush serenading us most of the day in the trees opposite our house (Harwood, . He was in good song and was a delight to hear.



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Anybody know Where have all the goldfinches have gone ?
Up to about two weeks ago 30ish , every day . Now very few . Very concerned about my local sparrowhawk who no longer has his buffet . I have seen him make five fruitless forays , this afternoon . Hope he can feed elsewhere , or else

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As weather is pants thought I'd spend an hour watching garden feeders instead of going out. Another Tree Sparrow put in a couple appearances and my first Siskin of the winter as well on the sunflower hearts. This morning there were 4 Pheasant in the garden, 3 females and a single male On the feeders generally still plenty of common birds plus a cracking male Great Spotted Woodpecker on the fat balls.

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I have had Siskins visiting my Swinton feeders this week. Started with four last Sunday rising each day to 21 this morning, 14f & 7 m. 



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Pleasant surprise to have 3 siskins in my Marple garden this morning. First of the winter.



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Just popped down to a friend's down Lower Green and she had at least 8 Tree Sparrow, Yellowhammer and Reed Bunting visiting her feeders whilst I was there.

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Our Stockport garden has seen just one female Blackcap over the last two weeks on a daily basis, Blackbird numbers are steady at 10 but a count on Tuesday 11th had 12. Two Redwings have been sat in a conifer and 2 Goldfinch were feeding in one of the Lilac trees on Wednesday morning. Other usuals on a daily basis.



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Late afternoon today quite a mix of species all seen at the same time. Not bad for a small terraced yard in Lowton. 2 Blackbird 2 Woodpigeon 2 Collared Dove 1 Wren 1 Dunnock 1 Robin 3 House sparrow 1 Grey wagtail

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Raven low west(ish) over my Astley garden at c12:15 this afternoon.



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Chiffchaff and Goldcrest in my Eccles garden

-- Edited by Steve Judge on Wednesday 12th of February 2025 07:41:47 AM

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A Stock Dove in garden today,first one for a couple years at least. Plenty of Greenfinch,Goldfinch and a few Chaffinch feeding on the sunflower hearts. 2 Nuthatch on the sunflower seeds and 6 Long Tailed Tits on the bird fat. Only getting the odd Pheasant in now presumably a lot have been shot as been quite a bit of shooting in the fields at the back.

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