A quick look after work, thought I had my binoculars in my bag on my bike but didn't !
Flixton etw/Irlam locks.
3 swifts 60 + mostly sand Martins Several swallows Both resting on the wires also. Couldn't make out any house martins. 2 common terns 2 great crested grebes
2 ring-necked parakeets.
-- Edited by steven burke on Monday 22nd of April 2024 08:39:31 PM
Just 1 common tern at the locks. 1 common sandpiper 1 oystercatcher 70+ sand martins At least 2 house Martins At least 3 swallows 2 buzzards 1 kestrel 1 linnet 1 mute Swan 4 cormorants 1 chiffchaff 1 chaffinch
Jack Lane nr...
At least 4 Reed warblers, 1 seen. Cettis warbler seen again. Water rails very noisy, 2 were seen flying out of the reeds having a but of a chase. 5 chiffchaffs 2 willow warblers 2 blackcaps 2 swallows over 5+ buzzards 1 sparrowhawk 1 kestrel
1 willow warbler 2 chiffchaff 1 blackcap 2 Mediterranean gulls over, headed towards Wallace Country Park. 22+ sand martins 8 cormorants 2 grey herons 3 grey wagtails 3 pied wagtails 4 stock doves 2 linnets 3 mute swans
1 kingfisher
Jack Lane nr..
2 Mediterranean gulls went over at 11.30am most likely the same 2 I had earlier, they came from over the railway & headed towards etw.
2 swallows over, they also headed towards etw.
Cettis warbler heard
Water rails heard
1 willow warbler
8 chiffchaffs
1 blackcap
2 Reed buntings
1 treecreeper
1 goldcrest
1 great spotted woodpecker
1 kestrel
1 raven
3 buzzards
2 stock doves
1 chaffinch
-- Edited by steven burke on Saturday 6th of April 2024 12:39:56 PM
200+ Black-headed gulls 5 Herring gulls 1 lesser-black backed gull 1 oystercatcher 5 pied wagtails 3 grey wagtails 3 cormorant 1 kestrel 1 great spotted woodpecker Chiffchaff heard on the Irlam side of the locks. A dead great crested grebe was along the roadside near townend farm.
Jack Lane...
Cettis warbler heard only as were numerous water rails. 1 Reed bunting 2 bullfinch 2 ravens 8 buzzards, 5 together in the air 1 kestrel 1 meadow pipit Plus usuals.
Common Sandpiper at the Ship Canal (from the end of the railway path at Wellacre CP) Snipe 2 landed on Dutton's Pond island briefly Pink-footed Goose 70 > NW at 10.59 Tufted duck 1 ship canal Water Rail 1 Jack Lane
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Pink-footed Goose 247. 142 > W 2 08.57, 75 > W @ 08.53, 57 > NW @ 09.02 over Green Hill Water Rail 3 heard at Jack Lane Great Black-backed Gull 1 MSC / Irlam lock Kingfisher 1 Jack Lane Chiffchaff 1 singing at Jack Lane Cetti's Warbler 1 seen and heard singing at Jack Lane Treecreeper 1 Redwing 22 Fieldfare 9 Meadow Pipit 11 Redpoll 4 Siskin 3
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A damp Saturday stroll round Wellacre Country Park 1:55 - 3:25. Highlights: dozens of redwings and blackbirds in the hedgerows; pairs of willow tit, goldcrest and treecreeper in a mixed tit flock at Jack Lane, also a couple of sparring water rails and a cameo by the Cetti's warbler; and 300+ starlings on the electricity pylons by the water treatment works.
Wander round Wellacre Country Park 1:40 - 3:50, highlights: 30+ blackbirds and at least a dozen song thrushes in Wellacre Wood; water rail at Jack Lane, I missed the crowds of redwings but there were still a few with the blackbirds in the hawthorns, a mistle thrush was my first at this site; 32 redwings over Green Hill and half a dozen jays in the oak saplings up top.
Approx 200 Redwing at Jack Lane NR 11am Water rail heard, Buzzard & Sparrow Hawk over Goldcrests mixed in with long Tailed Tits Little Grebe and Kingfisher below on Canal below locks
Wellacre Country Park - Green Hill & Dutton's Pond
Pink-footed Goose 276, 36 > E @ 08.08, 63 > E @ 08.31, 169 > E @ 08.54, 8 > W @ 09.22 Lapwing 1 Willow Tit 1 Green Hill 53.441646, -2.395201 Skylark 1 > S Swallow 2 House Martin 1 Chiffchaff 2 Cetti's Warbler 1 singing from the lagoons Goldcrest 3 Meadow Pipit 49 > S Linnet 2 > S Redpoll 6 > S Siskin 14 > S
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