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On Boarshaw Lane Flashes 12 Snipe and 2 Teal

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On Boarshaw Flash this afternoon 2 Green Sandpiper 2 Snipe 11 Teal 2 Shoveler

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20 Pink-footed Geese east at 4:30pm

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3 Teal on Boarshaw Lane Flashes, also 3 Chiffchaffs, 5 Swallows, 2 Buzzards, 1 Kestrel and 4 Lapwings

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1 Barn Owl
2 Little Grebe
1 Rook
3 Teal
25 Lapwings
1 Buzzard
c30 Pink-footed Geese east at 12:30pm

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1 Swift
1 Sand Martin
1 Lapwing
2 Whitethoat
1 Buzzard
70 Goldfinch
2 pairs of Coot - 1 pair feeding 2 juveniles
5 Pied Wagtails

The muddy margins of the main flash are looking good for waders smile

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Thursday 2nd June 2022

1 singing male Reed Bunting
1 Lapwing
1 Grey Heron


9th May 2022

Pair of Teal

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Pair of Teal - Boarshaw Lane Flashes

Thursday 5th May 2022

Green Woodpecker heard yaffling

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Drake Teal - Boarshaw Lane Flashes

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Kingfisher - Rochdale Canal SSSI

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Male Reed Bunting
2 Lapwings
Juvenile Mute Swan

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Sunday 17th April 2022

1 Linnet - Boarshaw Lane Flashes

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1 Swallow
2 Snipe
6 Oystercatchers
1 Lapwing
4 Teal
3 Reed Bunting
2 Buzzard

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4 Teal (2 drakes and 2 females)
1 Lapwing
1 juv Mute Swan
1 Buzzard
1 Cormorant

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

20 Snipe - on the small flash adjacent to the Rochdale Canal
14 Teal
Drake Goosander
2 Cormorant
1 Buzzard


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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

10 Snipe
1 Wigeon
10 Teal
4 Goosander
5 Cormorants

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Thursday 24th March 2022

Boarshaw Lane Flashes

8 Snipe - showing well on the small flash adjacent to the Rochdale Canal
3 Wigeon
3 Goosander
8 Teal
5 Cormorant

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

3 Wigeon
3 Goosander
4 Teal
7 Cormorant

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Drake Shoveler
7 Wigeon
7 Teal
11 Cormorant
2 Goosander

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

Drake Shoveler
8 Wigeon
15 Teal
2 Lapwing
7 Cormorants
1 Goosander
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

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Drake Shoveler
12 Wigeon
10 Teal
13 Cormorant
1 Goosander
2 Oystercatchers

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20 Lapwings in flight over the Railway Flash, Boarshaw Lane Flashes

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

Female Stonechat, showing well on the juncus around the two smaller flashes viewable from the Rochdale Canal towpath

Drake Shoveler
12 Wigeon
10 Teal
6 Goosander
9 Cormorant
1 Buzzard
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel

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Saturday 19th February 2022

Boarshaw Lane Flashes

12 Wigeon
10 Teal
6 Goosander

Information thanks to Richard Hart

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Drake Shoveler - still present at 2pm
12 Wigeon
7 Teal
1 Lapwing
10 Cormorants
1 Buzzard

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Drake Shoveler
2 Oystercatcher
12 Wigeon
6 Teal
4 Goosander
8 Cormorant
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel

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Thursday 3rd February 2022

Boarshaw Lane Flashes, plus a walk up the canal and along Boarshaw Lane

15 Teal
2 Goosander
1 male Shoveler
3 Snipe
4 Cormorant
2 Buzzard - 1 near the flashes and 1 over towards Chadderton Fold
2 Skylark heard in flight heading towards Tandle Hill
3 singing Song Thrush

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Wednesday 2nd February 2022 - World Wetlands Day

Boarshaw Lane Flashes

1 Stonechat
8 Wigeon
11 Teal
4 Snipe
2 Goosander
4 Cormorant
1 Buzzard

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31st January 2022

Boarshaw Lane Flashes

Female Shoveler
21 Wigeon
12 Teal
8 Goosander
5 Cormorant
2 Buzzard

Information thanks to Richard Hart

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

27th December 2021

6 Wigeon
8 Teal
7 Goosander
8 Snipe
1 Peregrine

Information thanks to Richard Hart

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

1 Stonechat
5 Wigeon
10 Snipe
7 Goosander
4 Mute Swans
1 Redpoll
5 Siskin

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes / Rochdale Canal

1 Raven
8 Wigeon (3 drakes)
1 Mute Swan
10 Rook
1 Little Grebe
1 Cormorant

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

1 Mute Swan
3 (1 drake) Wigeon
1 Little Grebe
2 Cormorant



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2 Wigeon Boarshaw Lane Flashes, also 1 Little Grebe

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1 Wigeon with 6 Mallards on Boarshaw Lane Flashes, also 1 Little Grebe

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4 Teal - Boarshaw Lane Flashes

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1 Little Grebe on Boarshaw Lane Flashes

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1 Little Grebe on Boarshaw Lane Flashes

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Boarshaw Lane

35 Lapwings
2 Buzzards

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Sunday 11th July 2021

Boarshaw Lane Flashes

1 singing male Reed Bunting
2 Swift

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2 Oystercatcher
1 Reed Bunting
2+ Great Spotted Woodpecker

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

1 Cormorant
5 Swallow
1 Jay
1 Whitethroat
1 Buzzard
2 Reed Bunting
3 Grey Heron


Boarshaw Clough

2 Swift
5 Blackcap (4 singing male, 1 female)
1 Chiffchaff
1 Dipper

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Kingfisher Higher Boarshaw on the Rochdale Canal around the garden with the Manchester City flag 8am

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

3 Lapwing
2 Cormorant
2 Buzzard
3 Swallow

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Scrubland just north of the garden with the Manchester City flag between the Rochdale Canal and the railway

3 singing male Whitethroat
1 male Blackcap (in sub-song?)
10 singing Willow Warblers
2 singing Chiffchaff
3 Buzzards


Boarshaw Lane Flashes

Drake Teal on the pool adjacent to the Rochdale Canal
1 Little Grebe on the main flash
1 Reed Bunting
5 Swallows

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Osprey south over Boarshaw Lane Flashes at 11:30am

2 Oystercatchers
1 Little Grebe
1 Lapwing
3 Swallow
1 Buzzard
2 Bullfinch


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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

Drake Teal on the pool adjacent to the Rochdale Canal
1 Little Grebe on the main flash
1 Buzzard

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

1 Oystercatcher

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Boarshaw Lane Flashes

2 Snipe
1 Oystercatcher
1 Sand Martin
5 Swallow
3 Teal (2 drakes)
2 Buzzard
1 singing Willow Warbler

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Green Sandpiper Boarshaw Lane Flashes on the main flash, still present at 4pm (information thanks to Dave Ousey)

View only from Boarshaw Lane or from the track, viewing through the trees, at the top of the railway embankment accessed just east of the Boarshaw Lane railway bridge, please don't enter the fields

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