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Paul Richardson


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A pair of Tawny Owls in our Leigh (Lilford) garden about 8pm last night - good views silhouetted in the bare trees. Happy about this as I don't recall seeing/hearing them at all in 2016.

Also a superb female Sparrowhawk this morning - didn't stay around long but good views while she was perched on a neighbour's tree.

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Male Blackcap in the garden this morning and last few days - Heaton Mersey

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marvin lewis


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A pair of Collared Doves courting and subsequently mating on the fence of the balcony of my back garden right in front of my kitchen window.
Spring is definitely coming!

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This morning in my small Marple garden,mainly on the feeders.

Tits - 2 blue, 3 great, 1 coal, 7 long tailed

2 each of robin, dunnock, blackbird, goldfinch, wood pigeon

4 house sparrows, 1 nuthatch (there are often 2) and 1 goldcrest



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David Morris


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First Collared Dove seen in my Chorlton garden for a while this morning- seemed to 'lose' them after a two week holiday over Christmas, so nice to see one back.

Also, while no means a 'rare' sighting, spotted a male House Sparrow on my neighbour's roof today, first one I'd seen on our road for many many months.

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A very noisy Tawny Owl woke me in the early hours. I heard it calling from neighbour's gardens as it moved through them after leaving my garden.



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Neil Ferguson


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My Big Garden Birdwatch count this year was

Blue Tit - 4

Great Tit - 3

Nuthatch - 2

Blackbird - 2

Robin - 2

Chaffinch - 3

Coal Tit - 1

Long Tailed Tit - 10

Bullfinch - 1

Goldfinch - 1

Collard Dove - 1

Wood Pigeon - 1

And the * for this neck of the woods.... Reed Bunting - 4

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PHIL GREENWOOD


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Garden Watch count for my Flixton garden.

Longtailed Tit 9 originally 10.
Sparrowhawk 1m nabbing 1 of the above.
Reed Bunting 6
Blackbird 4
Robin 2
Dunnock 2
Collared Dove 2
Blue Tit 4
Great Tit 1

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Chris Greene


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A conventicle of 19 Magpies,currently in trees opposite our Stockport home,very noisy they are too!

Cheers Chris



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Chris Porter


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Wren having a good nosey around my Hulme garden yesterday, and today a male blackcap - first I've seen since last winter.

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Christaylor


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M&F Blackcap Song thrush Redwing Reedbunting Bullfinch 20+ House Sparrow Goldfinch Long tailed Tit Chaffinch Coal Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Robin Dunnock Magpie Collared Dove Wood Pigeon In our Bolton garden

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Mike Cooper


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Song thrush in full song this morning in neighbouring gArden in Hopwood heywood

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Simon Warford


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female and male Blackcap still present in our Bolton garden today.

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Andy Bissitt


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The busiest day of the winter in my Romiley garden attracted a male blackcap. Supporting cast included male bullfinch, 4 goldfinches, 5+ greenfinches, goldcrest and the nuthatch mentioned yesterday had decided that bird feeders were the only swingers he was interested in. Definitely a day for watching through the glass.



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Andy Bissitt


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Garden record high count of three nuthatches. Have had one on infrequent occasions this winter, but these were all in my alder tree at the same time (one calling which I've never had in the garden before). I got the impression that the other two were a roaming pair beginning to seek out a territory, and 'mine' was making sure they moved on. It did eventually fly after them though so I'm hoping it didn't fancy trying its luck with a threesome and comes back!!



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David Morris


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First ever Song Thrush in my Chorlton Garden this morning while going BTO GBW count for the week. Other highlights were 2 Goldfinches and 4 Long-tailed Tits.

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In my Flixton garden.

Reed Bunting 6


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Simon Warford


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Female and male Blackcap still present in our Bolton garden.

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Charlie Schouten


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Male blackcap present again in my Brooklands/Sale garden, for the third day in a row.

Cheers
Charlie



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Eugene Dillon-Hooper


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Sparrowhawk over my house in Firswood just now. Probably one of the local Longford Park area ones that i see regularly around here.

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Chris Greene


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A Tawny Owl calling from somewhere near our Offerton garden at 11:30 last night,clearly audible over the drone of late night traffic on St.Mary's Way.

A happy "bird filled " new year to everyone on the forum.

Cheers Chris



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Charlie Schouten


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A single male blackcap on the feeders in my garden in Brooklands/Sale today at 10:55. First time I've ever seen one around here.

 

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Been putting out some chopped up bread mixed with dog food and owt else that's near its sell by date out of the fridge and best count of Blackbirds feeding at any one time so far is 15 ,but the interesting thing is they're all males apart from one female which is the most aggressive and dominant bird there!!

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Simon Warford


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Amazingly 3 Blackcaps (2 males, 1 female) in our Bolton garden today.

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Eugene Dillon-Hooper


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Mistle thrush on the berry tree outside my bedroom window. Knowing that all the waxwings that are about, I almost had a heart attack when I openned the curtains bleary eyed this morning. This is however the first bird I've seen on this tree feeding all winter, so holding out hope that something better might take a liking it to it!

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female blackcap again in my old Trafford garden this morning, feeding on the apples I have placed in one of my trees & on the fatballs.

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Just now 1 Ring Necked Parakeet over my Bredbury garden closely followed by a large female Sparrowhawk.

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Simon Warford


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Male Blackcap in our Bolton garden this morning. Thats two of the last three winters we've had wintering records.

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A female blackcap was in my old trafford garden yesterday morning, it landed in the tree where I have placed some apples but did not stay long.
Also a peregrine falcon was chasing the feral pigeons around in the wind but soon lost to view.

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marvin lewis


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Single male Bullfinch on the feeders last 2 days. First time in many months.

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brambling in our Kearsley garden yesterday

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A single male Bullfinch, made a welcome return to our Stockport garden this morning,after an absence of over six months!

Otherwise really quiet,

Cheers Chris



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A slight upturn this weekend in birds coming to the garden (still eating mostly last years seed), with the first nuthatch for about a month, and even more momentous, a pair of bullfinches on a feeder (first for well over a year I think). Let's hope for something cold after Christmas so I can start on this years seed supply, and perhaps get a real surprise bird.



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Looks like a "white christmas" has come early to my garden as this Sparrowhawk took out one the "white flying rats" that plague my garden and steal all the food put down for the finches,only 9 birds left in flock now,hopefully it'll get the taste for them and take a few moresmile

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A Brambling again visited my garden today. Looked like the same one as on Tuesday, and I think its a female.

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Grey Wagtail that was around my garden in Golborne (and other gardens nearby) for winter last year returned again on Tuesday (at least that was the first time I have seen it again). On the feeders/around this morning, 2x Coal Tits, A Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Collared Doves, Wren, around 10 House Sparrows, 4 Blue Tits, a Great Tit, circa 50 starlings

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Mike Cooper


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Lots of redwings calling over heywood tonight

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A Brambling visited my Prestwich garden this morning. It fed beneath the hanging feeders, associating with the commoner finches. Delightful.

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Sparrowhawk, over the roof of the house opposite me. Firswood.



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Just had a Dunnock and a Goldfinch in my garden in Chorlton, first of each for a while (especially the Dunnock, I think my cats probably scare them off!).

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David Morris


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Just had one of the local Ring-necked Parakeets fly over my garden in Chorlton.

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Regular Coal Tit (at least 2) visits to my feeders after Breakfast today. Also, not seen for sometime, came A Mistle Thrush on my Larch and a Wren.

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Nice surprise in Hulme garden today, a smart looking jay sat in clear view with bristling crest.

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Sat 3/12/16:

1 Blackcap (m) feeding on apple in my tree, which I have put out hoping to attract waxwing(wishful thinking!)

4 Blackbird
3 Blue tit
2 Great tit
2 Coal tit
7 Goldfinch
6 Chaffinch
8 Housesparrow
10 -14 Starling
2 Dunnock
1 Wren
3 Robins (chasing each other)
6 Collared dove
4 Woodpigeon


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Hopwood heywood

Since Rowan leaves dropped a week or so ago the few berries left were first targeted by blackbirds then this week a pair? Of mistle thrushes and now Starlings hovering up last ones.

Looks like no Waxwings for me again this winter

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Sparrowhawk perched on tree at the back of gardens on Fairfax Ave, Didsbury from 9 - 9:30 am this morning.



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Chris Greene


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Three Goldcrests currently flitting their way around our frosty Stockport garden.

Cheers Chris 



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Pied and Grey Wagtails several times over the last few days on our Grove/ our drive - Ashton-under-Lyne.



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PHIL GREENWOOD


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A record for my Flixton garden...15 Collared Doves. The bird seed isn't lasting very long!

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12/11/2016 12:54 and 13/11/2016 09:58 - Siskin male attending our Walkden garden feeding station.

13/11/2016 09:13 - Chiffchaff singing in birch trees adjacent our feeding station.


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