90 minutes mid afternoon.Warm but damp.

Sitings:
Buzzard....2
Jay....3
Sedge Warbler....1
Willow Warbler ....3
Common Whitethroat....3
Chaffinch....1
Blackcap....1
Reed Bunting....4
Swallows....15
Swift....1
Plenty Canada Geese and Mallards present (1 Mallard brood)

Some new pools have been created recently and work was going on this afternoon with diggers.


-- Edited by keith mills on Wednesday 9th of May 2012 04:44:36 PM

1 male whinchat and possibly a female as well. 2 grasshopper warblers, 1 reeling, 1 in undergrowth just about 3 feet away. 2 possible marsh tits, may have been willow tits don't really know how likely marsh tit is around here. Also 1 whitethroat seen along with 20+ reed buntings, tons of swallows and 8 lapwings.

early evening stroll Red Moss and environs......Chiffchaff at "Mount Reebok", a pair of Jay, singing Goldcrest, calling Pheasant, Snipe flushed from waters edge, a few Grey Heron and another Chiffchaff at Gibb Farm (far end of the Moss).....very pleasant evening walk......

Sedge and Grasshopper Warblers audible while doing Bolton 5k yesterday morning. I don't think they were happy at 300 people running through their territories.

Today:

2 Grasshopper Warblers
100 Swallow north
1 Wheatear
1 Snipe

Info thanks to Andy Makin

2 Grasshopper Warblers singing at lunchtime today, 1 showing wonderfully well out in the open for ages, also Little Ringed Plover present today.

Late morning with Warfy senior & Simon Johnson.

Woodcock
Willow Tit 6
Lesser Redpoll 30
Siskin 20
Buzzard 1
Jay 2

55 Pink feet over winter hill heading nw early pm.

Around midday today:

37 Reed Bunting
7 Redwing
5 Skylark
31 Snipe

Info thanks to Andy Makin

first visit or reccy

First view was a Buzzard comming from tree near the farm close up being pursed by two magpies.

Over six snipe in small groups once out on the marsh proper

Flocks of long tailed tits, reed bunters, some teal a swallow and a willow tit

Saw the metal bridge but it started to rain and so I called it a day but saw all this in an hour

Entered the site from the west on the track under the motor way acess was through the farm and through a stile to a padlocked barbed wire gate and then down the track and out onto the marsh. Maps shaow a right of way in this area. Is this site private restricted access and which is the best way to approach. Cracking Site and I will return.

cheers


ian

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Monday 9th of August 2010 08:54:51 PM

FOURTH VISIT, this afternoon.
At least 2 Kestrels hunting regularly . Swallows and House Martins overhead.
Usual Magpies and Herring Gulls.
Further out on the Moss. were families of Reed buntings and 2 Reed Warblers.
Found a larger pool, new to me, on which a mallard took up sole residence.
2 Roe Deer slipped through the cover in front of me.
A walk down the east side path was aborted due to my lack of Wellingtons,but 2 Wrens seen in the thickets.

-- Edited by keith mills on Thursday 5th of August 2010 07:01:08 PM

Not bad for your first visit in 3 years pal Some people are born lucky.. is this some kind of game were playing, i find 14 crossbills then you do, i find Little Egret then you do. Whats next? By the way the next time i see your car at any Bolton site it will be clamped!

Wee-Warford (waiting in the wings forever).

Cheers

24/7/10

Green Sandpiper 2
Snipe 11
Teal 2
Willow Tit 2
Redpoll 6
Stock Dove 2

17/7/10 mid am - Rain!

Green Sandpiper 2
Snipe 7
Willow Tit 2 amongst a decent sized tit flock which also held 2 Blackcap, several Willow Warblers.
Still several Sedge Warblers in song with others carrying food.
3 or 4 Reed Warblers in one willow tree, looked like a family party.
Redpoll 5
Whitethroat 4+

27/6/10 upto 10.30am

Black Tailed Godwit 3 on largest pool
Green Sand 1
Lapwing 40+
Willow Tit adult and Juvs
Whitethroat adult and 3 juvs.
Many Willow warblers
Buzzard 2

where is red moss. Would love to go and look for the Marsh Harrier but I dont know the area!

This morning with Simon Johnson. Bad news a fire last week seems to have destroyed about one third of the main moss, unfortunately the area right accross the middle. Hardly any Sedge Warblers singing but not suprising really given the habitat loss, which probably couldnt have happened at a worse time of year. The cause of the fire isnt yet known according to the Bolton News.

Only birds of note were a fly over Raven & Common Tern.

-- Edited by Simon Warford on Saturday 29th of May 2010 09:33:22 PM

Female MARSH HARRIER still present this afternoon, when it appeared to fly off north west around 5.30pm, just in time for the Adderley's to see it.

Also 2 Grasshopper Warblers, 10 Sedge Warblers, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Willow Tit & 30 Swift.

Female Marsh Harrier hunting over Red Moss at 2-20.

Info thanks to Simon Warford and Phil Rhodes.

Possibly in area for a while after my and Andy Makins recent sightings over Horwich moors.

1.30 - 6.30pm later joined by Judith, Andy Makin, Ken and Jill.

Spent 4 hours down here today after flushing a warbler @ 14.30 which possibly could have been an Aquatic Warbler. I flushed the warbler down one of the tracks and could only get flight views of it flying away from me each time landing in the bottom of juncas patches out of view and it eventually flew into the middle of the peat bog miles from reach. It was very clean lookin, Golden yellow in colour with 2 prominent yellow stripes down its back, but just couldnt get to grips with it other than in flight! It then became like looking fr a needle in a haystack.

Otherbirds

Crossbill calling over west
Snipe 22
Lapwing 11
Teal 18
Buzzard
Spahawk
Kestrel 3
Swallow 200 south with 14 House and 16 Sand Martin
Grey Wag south
Whitethroat
Sedge Warbler
Jay

2/08/08 Mid morning

Tree Pipit
Willow Tit
Repoll 3 - think have bred in area as one seemed to be a begging for food
Lapwing 100
Swift 45
House martin 20
Whitethroat
Blackcap