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Peregrine at Salford Quays

Pomona:

1 Kestrel
1 Common sandpiper
1 Bullfinch
2 Linnets
2 Swifts
plus good numbers of Whitethroat, Willow warblers, Sand martins

MSC at Weaste

50+ Swifts
25 House martins
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Oystercatcher
3 Lapwings displaying

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Trafford wharf.

9 herring gulls
2 grey wagtail
1 sand martin
1 grey heron

Pomona.

2 blackcaps
5 whitethroats
7 willow warblers
2 common sandpipers
1 kestrel
1 grey heron
2 grey wagtail
c40 sand martins
2 swift
2 goosander
3 mistle thrush
4 song thrush






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Common Sandpiper Pomona

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James Walsh


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Yes you can access from Pomona Metrolink Station

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I keep meaning to check the area out- it is the area by the canal by the Pomona tram stop?

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Pomona - great Spring birding with 10 male Common Whitethroats and 8 male Willow Warblers on territory, displaying Lapwing, Sparrowhawk, 1 Swallow, a pair of Bullfinch and Sand Martins buzzing around in large numbers, I'm surprised more birders don't visit the site, especially on days like this!

-- Edited by James Walsh on Sunday 8th of May 2016 01:39:58 PM

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Evening visit to Pomona. Nice to bump into James again.

1 Wheatear
1 Grey heron
1 Common sandpiper
2 Coot
2 Long-tailed tits
4 Song thrushes
4 Goosanders
8 Starlings

I tried to alert you to the wheatear but you had vanished by then. It was in between the dockks 1 and 2




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Pomona

Influx of Willow Warblers (c10), Whitethroats (c8) and Sand Martins (up to 150)



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Originally posted today by Fred Ford:

Building work near Hulme bridge seems to have scared off the sand martins which usually nest there. Hope they are nesting elsewhere along thr canal.

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10.15am Trafford wharf

1 common sandpiper
3 sand martin
1 swallow
7 herring gull

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Pomona

1 Whitethroat
4 Willow Warbler
c100 Sand Martin
c30 House Sparrow on north side (area adjacent to the building site)
2 Goosander


South Bay

Up to 50 hirundines, Swallows and Sand Martins, feeding around the big ship with the greenhouse onboard

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Tuesday 26th April

Common Sandpiper Clippers Quay

Info Tony O'Mahoney

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Tuesday 19th March

Pomona

1 Lapwing
5 singing Willow Warbler
c100 Sand Martin

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A tram stop and walk around the area this afternoon ;

Castlefield - Old Trafford  (along the Bridgewater Canal) = Mute Swan x2, Canada Geese, Mallards, Greenfinch, Grey Wagtail x2, Sand Martin x2,Willow Warbler, Magpie, Black Headed Gull, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeons.

Trafford Swing Bridge - Media City (along the Ship Canal) - Cormorant x2, Great Northern Diver, Herring Gull x3, Lesser black backed Gulls, Coot x2, Mute Swan x21, Black Headed Gulls, Carrion Crow x2, Magpie, Goldfinch, Long Tailed Tit, Canada Geese.

Great to see the Diver again, in Central Bay, diving twice during sighting.

Superb walk and trams.

 



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Great Northern Diver - juvenile still present


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Pomona

1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Lapwing
c100 Sand Martin
5 singing Willow Warbler
1 singing Chiffchaff

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this morning, great northern diver on Trafford wharf.
peregrine falcon, over
sparrowhawk, over



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Great northern diver still on Trafford wharf.

15 sand martin
3 willow warbler, 2 singing & feeding along trafford wharf another singing over on merchants quay.
1 Chiffchaff
Thought I may of heard a garden warbler along trafford wharf but only heard the once.
1 goosander
4 grey wagtail
1 herring gull
5 meadow pipit, over.

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A tram stop tour of the area today.

Castlefield = Mallards, Canada Geese, Goldfinch, Blue Tit.

Cornbrook - Mute Swans (pair), Black Headed Gulls, Greenfinch.

Pomona - Kestrel x2, Wren, Sand Martin x15, Black Headed Gull x3, Cormorant, Coot.

Salford Quays - Mute Swan x21, Coot, Cormorant, Canada Geese, Lesser Black Backed Gulls.

Anchorage - Coot, Starlings, House Sparrows, Goldfinches, Mallards.

Media City - Great Northern Diver, Cormorant, Herring Gull, Pied Wagtail x2, Canada Geese, Lesser Black Backed Gull.

Broadway - Woodpigeon.

Superb walk and trams.

 



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Great Northern Diver - juvenile still present this morning
Swallow 1
Sand Martin 1
Chiffchaff 1

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Great Northern Diver - juvenile still present

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1 Swallow
2 Kingfisher
1 Great Northern Diver
4 Goosander
2 Chiffchaff

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no sign of the great northern diver along Trafford wharf between 4-5pm.
2 willow warblers were a nice surprise in the birch trees about halfway along Trafford wharf ( my first of the year) feeding with a couple of blue tits.
2 peregrine falcons over media city struggling in the high winds but one did have a kill in its talons, they both disappeared & were not seen again.
7 herring gulls.

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great northern diver, diving, close to the wall on Trafford wharf (Samuel platts side) just after 2pm.

Shannon, Trafford wharf is that stretch of the ship canal, not sure if it is from the locks to Trafford road bridge or just from the lowry bridge to Trafford road bridge, but I am sure james walsh can clarify this for you.

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Great Northern Diver preening in front of the Lowry Shopping Mall at 08.00 this morning. He's (?) been on or around The Quays now for the better part of four months.

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Great Northern Diver Salford Wharf viewable from the promenade in front of The Lowry Shopping Centre present @2000

Drake Tufted Duck South Bay (associating with Mallards)

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No sign of the great northern diver, but some nice species spied.

Lowry area:

1 peregrine drifting over the Lowry Outlet building, heading in the direction of Old Trafford.
1 common gull with the more numerous black-headed, lesser black-backed and herring gulls.
25 mute swan (including two with blue darvic rings, 4BDP & 4BUV, and one with a small metal ring, ZY7805)

From Media City bridge (is it Trafford Wharf you're looking down onto from here?):

1 grey wagtail
1 goldeneye
1 greylag goose
8 cormorant

Pomona:

2 singing chiffchaff
Sand martins in good numbers
Lots of greenfinch, one displaying
2 bullfinch
2 meadow pipit
1 grey wagtail
2 lapwing
3 goosander
3 cormorant (others over)
2 kestrel


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Pomona

Singing Willow Warbler
1 Lapwing
c50 Sand Martin
Singing Chiffchaff
3 Goosander

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Great Northern Diver juvenile still present this morning
Chiffchaff 1

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Sorry for this late post but I was chopping wood in the back yard and at 4.30pm this afternoon saw a cormorant type bird flying over going south.
It definitely wasn't a cormorant it looked to me like the Great Northern Diver leaving Salford Quays(which are only a mile away) It was also calling which I checked on YouTube and that confirmed it for me.

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At 14:05 hrs. on Saturday, 2nd April 2016 - Great Northern Diver showing well between Lowry Theatre and Imperial War Museum.

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Great Northern Diver - juvenile still present this morning
Goldeneye 1 male
Chiffchaff 1

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great northern diver showing well on Trafford wharf/media city
2 sand martin
1 buzzard
1 sparrowhawk

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Great Northern Diver Trafford Wharf viewable from Sam Platts Pub

Pomona

c20 Sand Martins
1 Lapwing
4 Chiffchaff
2 Goosander
10 Mallard ducklings

Sightings, Tony O'Mahoney

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Yesterday 12.30pm to 2pm.

A metrolink tram stop tour of the area !

Castlefield - Cormorant, Mute Swan x2, Canada Goose, Mallard, Goldfinch, Carrion Crow

Pomona - Goosander (drake), Sand Martin x7, Lapwing, Herring Gull 1st Summer x3, Magpie.

Cornbrook - Black Headed Gull 1st Summer x6, Greenfinch x3, Common Gull.

Salford Quays - Coot x4, Mute Swan x16, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove x2, Pied Wagtail, Feral Pigeon x3.

Media City - Great Northern Diver (juvenile), Cormorant x3, Lesser Black Backed Gull x5

The Great Northern Diver was first spotted on the Ship Canal near the Lowry at 12.55pm

Later it was by Media City, a little way downstream, showing well and lots of diving !

It was a chance sighting, having read that he had departed. Still there ! Just out on the Ship Canal now !

Wonderful walk and trams.

 

 

 



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Tonight 5pm.... Goldcrest on edge if quays, pair goosanders in Ship Canal plus Two Sandmartin, a singing Chiffchaff and Kestrel at Pomona. Finally it's spring!

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Pomona

2 sand martin
1 swallow
2 Chiffchaff
1 common snipe
1 sparrowhawk
3 herring gull

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Pomona, in pretty poor weather, from just before 9 to just gone 11; highlights:

3 chiffchaff
4 meadow pipit
2 grey wagtail
Decent numbers of the usual passerines.
1 mistle thrush
1 goosander
4 mute swan
1 lapwing
4 cormorant
Black-headed gull, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull.
1 sparrowhawk



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Weaste etw

2 sand martin
2 lapwing
28 pied wagtail
1 grey wagtail
1 skylark
1 sparrowhawk
1 kestrel

Manchester ship canal

1 great crested grebe
3 lapwing
2 oystercatcher

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Pomona

Singing Chiffchaff showing in the scrub on the area adjacent to the promenade known as the Wheatear Field

2 Meadow Pipit

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Wednesday March 23rd

Jack Snipe on Pomona

Info, Tony O'Mahoney

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Pomona

5 Sand Martin

1 Chiffchaff

1 Common Snipe

2 Goosander

2 Kestrel



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Highlights from today:

Pomona:

1 Goosander
1 Kingisher
1 Lapwing

Weaste:

11 Lapwing
2 Sparrowhawks
2 Buzzard
Mute swan on nest

Hulme locks:

1 Tufted duck

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2 goosander at clippers quay

3 bullfinch
1 goldcrest
several goldfinch & greenfinch in wood next to Trafford road bridge.

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17th March

1 Kingfisher

11 Lapwing

2 Redshank

1 Tufted Duck

2 Oystercatcher

2 Goosander



-- Edited by James Walsh on Friday 18th of March 2016 09:54:10 PM

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18th March

1 Kingfisher

1 Goldeneye

6 Tufted Duck

1 Great Crested Grebe

4 Oystercatcher

5 Lapwing



-- Edited by James Walsh on Friday 18th of March 2016 09:49:31 PM

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James Walsh wrote:

Great Northern Diver present on Sunday 13th March (Tony Disley) and I saw it on Tuesday 15th March, this now seems to be the last day of its' prolonged stay, my calculations make its' stay 3 months and 2 days Could this be the most twitched bird on Salfords' Docklands ever ?

 I have enjoyed seeing it enormously on my visits, superb bird and a wonderful record for the Quays. Thank you to the finder and for all the information from everyone.

 

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Great Northern Diver present on Sunday 13th March (Tony Disley) and I saw it on Tuesday 15th March, this now seems to be the last day of its' prolonged stay, my calculations make its' stay 3 months and 2 days Could this be the most twitched bird on Salfords' Docklands ever ?

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I had a good mooch around all the basins this morning (twice) & along Trafford wharf, no signs of the great northern diver so hopefully gone safely back to where it should be.
a woodcock flying over media city heading towards Trafford park at 9.50am was a nice surprise.


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No sign of the diver on any of the basins or on the main on the quays itself


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