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Matt Potter


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Hi All

Im currently based on a new construction site in Worsley, and just wondered where the different named woods were? I can see on OS maps the Dam, but the woods are not named. I used to spend lots of time in Worsley when I was younger and walked those areas a lot. I assume the various woods have names?

 

Sightings so far:-

Small Woods at Cricket club

Ring Necked Parrakeet

Nuthatch

Mistle Thrush

Song Thrush

Blue asnd Great Tits

Robin

Corvids

 

Cheers 



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peregrine chasing a sparrowhawk over m60 heading towards the Trafford centre



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bernard hooley


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Afternoon visit yesterday:

20 birds seen:
Feral Pigeon x 6
Wood Pigeon x 6
Collared Dove x 2
Magpie x 6
Canada Goose x 20+
Mute Swan x 3
Tufted Duck x 22
Mallard x 20
Coot x 21
Black Headed Gull x 30
Common Snipe x 11
Teal x 18
Moorhen x 2
Blackbird x 8
Robin x 7
Nuthatch x 2
Shoveler x 2
Treecreeper x 1
Carrion Crow x
Cormorant x 1

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Dave Thacker


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A pair of Buzzards were displaying over Wardley woods this morning and another pair including a very light coloured bird were displaying over the filtration lagoons this afternoon.



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9.00 -13.00.

Wardley woods. 

Buzzard,

2 Nuthatch,

Treecreeper,

Greater spotted woodpecker,

12 Long-tailed tits.

Worsley Woods,

5 Snipe and 2 Cormorants along with the usual on the dam,

Kingfisher along the stream at the back of the dam.

2 Greater spotted woodpeckers.

Filtration lagoons.

3 Snipe

4 Teal

2 Nuthatch 

Coal tit

Reed bunting.

 

 



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Charlotte Harrison


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Thanks Tom - I think this is the most likely explanation, and did cross my mind too.

 

Visited the Old Warke Dam this morning and had the following highlights:

Long-tailed Tits

Black-headed gulls (ringed gull from Holland still present, although I can't get all 7 digits)

Gadwall

Nuthatch

Green Woodpecker (heard only)

Little Grebe



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Dave Stewart


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Mill Brow

6 House Sparrow

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

1 Nuthatch (calling)

5 Goldfinch

Old Warke Dam

7 Gadwall

23 Mallard

7 Coot

5 Moorhen

91 Black headed Gull

2 Mute Swan

17 Teal

7 Canada Geese

2 Shoveler (pair)

1 Grey Heron

c50 Snipe    difficult to count in the bulrushes / sedge opposite the boardwalk

1 Mistle Thrush (in song)

Worsley Delph 

1 Kingfisher

 



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Tom OShea


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Hi Charlotte, could it not have been a corvid that had lost one or two of its middle tail feathers? I can't think of any fork tailed bird that match your description but i may be wrong



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Charlotte Harrison


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Hi Rob - yes, thanks, my mistake. I wouldn't have said it was a Bird of Prey. It didn't behave like one, and, what I probably meant, is that it wasn't the size of a Red Kite, so I ruled that one out. It looked bigger than a crow (maybe more towards the size of a raven, but the tail was wrong for a raven) and it also looked predominantly black (but that could have been due to losing the light).

Do you have any guesses on what it might have been? 



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Hi Charlotte.
Regarding the fork-tailed bird... you state that it didnt look Raptor-sized. Raptors are different sizes, do you mean it didnt look like a Bird of Prey?
Cheers


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Charlotte Harrison


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27/12/2020 - from 8:30am to 4pm (with a break in between):

Nuthatch

Teal

Gadwall

Little Grebe

Snipe

Heron

Mallard

Mute Swan (ringed)

Canada Geese

Redwing

GS Woodpecker

Coot

Moorhen

Dunnock

Longtailed Tit

Robin

Jay

Black Headed Gulls (one ringed)

- Something Corvid-looking flew over quite low with a very well-defined and distinctive forked tail. Didn't look raptor sized, and didn't look like a Red Kite to me.



-- Edited by Charlotte Harrison on Sunday 27th of December 2020 10:37:08 PM

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Natalie Clarke


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Enjoyable Boxing Day scout round the woods with my Dad!

Highlights on our morning jaunt:

Eclipse shoveler

Chiffchaff 

Mistle thrush

Grey Heron

Treecreeper

Nuthatch 



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colin moran


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the dam,lots of teal,snipe,pair of shoveler,6 gadwall,pair of little grebe,a few tufted duck,2 nuthatch



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Dave Thacker


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Worsley Woods 11-13.45. Buzzard, Sparrowhawk (f), 2 Bullfinch, Treecreeper, Jay. The Dam. Initially I only could find 17 Common snipe but luckily a Buzzard decided to land right in the middle of them causing an eruption of Snipe. As they flew a couple of laps around the dam I counted 63 until they flew out of sight only to return a minute later. I counted 74 as they returned back to their favourite place in the cover to the right of the wooden jetty. I don't think that I have ever seen this many Snipe before around the dam.

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11.00 to 14.15. An excellent couple of hours in Worsley Woods 45+ Common Snipe scattered around the dam with more flying in as I was leaving. Green sandpiper flushed from the water logged area near the motorway bridge. Woodcock flushed from the area behind the dam. Also seen, 3 Brambling along the cycle track 3 Lesser redpoll 2 Siskin 22 Redwing 3 Fieldfare Nuthatch Song thrush 3 Mistle thrush Goldcrest 18 Tufted duck Little grebe 3 Shoveler Kingfisher 2 Jay's Coal tit 6 Long tailed tips Sparrowhawk 2 Cormorants over.

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Bridgewater canal Filtration Pools brief visit AM

A small finch flock in the treeline alongside the sheep field included....

1 male Brambling

7 Chaffinch

2 Greenfinch

2 Buzzard.... above the sheep field.

Worsley Delph

1 Kingfisher



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10 - 14.15. Blackcap and 3 Jays in Wardley woods. Around the Dam area. 7 Gadwall 17 Teal. 4 Shoveler 2 Little grebe. Goldcrest 2 Greenfinch. Good to meet up again with Dave Winnard. No sign of the Yellow-browed warbler this afternoon. .

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dave broome wrote:

The Yellow-Browed Warbler called just after I got out of the car at 10:38, in the vicinity of the tennis court. No further sign up to around 11:30 when one other border was still searching.
1 Redpoll over

 no sign at 12 00



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The Yellow-Browed Warbler called just after I got out of the car at 10:38, in the vicinity of the tennis court. No further sign up to around 11:30 when one other birder was still searching.
1 Redpoll over

-- Edited by dave broome on Sunday 18th of October 2020 12:31:03 PM

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Yellow-browed Warbler at Beesley Green, Worsley (Roe Green) in trees around the car park and bowling green off Greenleach Lane (bird is vocal currently).

Info thanks to David Winnard



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10.15am to 13.15. Wardley woods Female Sparrowhawk 2 Great spotted woodpeckers 2 Bullfinch Jay Song thrush Worsley woods Small flock of 8 Long tailed tits and a single Coal tit Tree creeper On the dam. Kingfisher Little grebe 5 Gadwall 6 Snipe 5 Tufted duck 3 Grey wagtails 2 Buzzards over Male Sparrowhawk flying through the trees. Filtration lagoons Male Blackcap 7 Goldfinch.



-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 27th of September 2020 04:59:37 PM

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Jason Dulhanty


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Late afternoon

kingfisher on the dam

Cheers Jay

Dont twitch and drive



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A Juvenile Spotted flycatcher was in Worsley woods this morning feeding from a fence post along the path at the back of the Aviary house.

Also seen;

Adult female and juvenile Sparrowhawks

3 Grey wagtails

Treecreeper

Single Willow warbler was at the filtration lagoons.



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bernard hooley


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Walked from the Old Warke dam through the woods to
Roe Green,then along the loop line back to the dam.
Species seen as follows.
Starling x 6
Black Headed Gull x 18
House Sparrow x 3
Carrion Crow x 1
Goldfinch x 6
Magpie x 4
Mallard x 20
Mute Swan x 3
Herring Gull x 1
Coot x 6
Moorhen x 1
Robin x 4
Grey Wagtail x 1
Blackbird x 4
Wood Pigeon x 2
Wren x 6
Blackcap x 1
Tree Creeper x 1
Quite a few other birds heard ,but the canopy
was so dense they were hard to find. I finished
up with birders neck.

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colin moran


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mute swans just hatched 6 cygnets in the village



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filtration beds.9 reed warblers,1 sedge warbler,3 reed bunting,chiffchaff,jay



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Filtration beds this afternoon.

6 Reed warblers

5 Reed buntings

2 Herons

Song thrush

6 Willow warblers heard

3 Chiffchaff

Male Blackcap

2 Buzzards over

No Sand Martins or Swallows seen.



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colin moran


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filtration beds .nuthatch2,chiffchaff2,6 pair Canada geese,buzzard3,grey heron,



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Tonight whilst coming home from work around 7:30pm along Leigh Road (Millionaires Row) I noticed a bird swoop down over the pavement at head height from a tree and suspected what it was. It perched up on a tree stump in the wooded area of Leigh Road in clear view and as I passed looked at the car, a fantastic Tawny Owl!



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dam.7pair of tufted duck,20 teal,4 white farmyard ducks,1 chiffchaff.



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Back end of Worsley Woods. Between 2-4ish at the Greenleach entrance.

Usual stuff on the way in nuthatch, great and long tail tits.

A moorhen perched half way up a tree had me confused for minute or so.

On the dam, several teals, tufted ducks and a single heron. A sparrowhawk over (f).

Cheers, Jay 

Dont twitch and drive



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Worsley woods this afternoon.

Treecreepers x2, Bullfinch x 2, Sisk in, Grey wagtail, Goldcrest.

On the dam.

17 Teal, 4 Tufted duck, Little grebe, 7 Snipe, 3 Herons and the usual Black headed gulls. It's a shame that some of the railings have been removed around the lake as dogs were swimming in the water near the wooden platform disturbing the 4 Mute swans.

Also I flushed a Woodcock in the old figure of 8 area in Wardley woods on the way home.

 



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filtration beds.2 swifts,buzzard,2 reed warblers,2 whitethroat,blackcap,no swallows under the motorway again



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Late news from yesterday (30th April) Cettis warbler heard singing in bushes by side of M60 slip road at South end of filtration beds whilst I was sat in traffic c.6pm.

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colin moran


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filtration beds.very mobile cettis warbler in flight,6/8 reed warblers,1 sedge warbler,2 blackcap,4 buzzard,1 kestral



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Worsley filtration Lagoons mid afternoon.

Cetti's Warbler heard, First for me at this site since creation 2004/5
Reed Warbler heard
Sedge Warbler heard
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff

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Cetti's warbler singing at filtration beds this afternoon 16.45. First for me at this site.

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Cetti's warbler singing at filtration beds this afternoon 16.45. First for me at this site.

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colin moran


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23 snipe,28 teal in the woods this morning



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Nice walk around the woods and the lake on Sunday.

Highlights - 5 snipe, 1 little grebe, 7 teal on the mostly frozen lake.

At least 4 brambling with chaffinches feeding on beech mast, and a flock of 30 redwing in the woods.

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sheep field next to bridgewater school ,2 ravens,3/4 brambling



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Dukes fields,opposite  bridgewater school,2 buzzards,kestrel,2 nuthatch



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20 teal,12 snipe,at least 1 male brambling with a flock of chaffinch in the woods



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4DBC was ringed at Old Warke Dam, Worsley on 17/11/2015



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A wander around Worsley Woods including Old Warke dam this morning;

On the dam;
8 Snipe
42 Mallard
7 Tufted Duck
5 Mute Swan (the male is ringed, blue darvic 4DBC - Steve C, any interesting facts about this one??)
8 Moorhen
36 Teal
12 Coot
1 Grey Heron
26 Black-headed Gull
1 Little Grebe

In the area;
Coal, Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tits
Nuthatch, Goldcrest
Song Thrush

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Five Bramblings seen with a flock of Chaffinch (30+) in the trees alongside the sheep field next to the Bridgewater school on Worsley Road this afternoon. Also two Rooks in the field with the many Crows and Woodpigeon. 



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I really pleasant wander around Worsley Woods including Old Warke dam this morning;

On the dam;
38 Mallard
2 Tufted Duck
5 Mute Swan (pair with 3 well grown young)
10 Moorhen
23 Teal
14 Coot
2 Grey Heron
6 Black-headed Gull

In the area;
1 Buzzard
circa 200 Wood Pigeon
circa 75 Pink-footed Geese over SE
6 Skylark over W
1 Meadow Pipit over W

Coal, Blue, Great Tits noted as well as Nuthatch



-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 29th of September 2018 10:04:57 PM

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c 10 sand martins 1 swallow at filtration beds



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Three visits in the last week along the canal and the filtration lagoons and I have not seen a single Swallow either nesting under the motorway bridge or feeding over the lagoons. Other birds seen include; Filtration beds, max numbers seen. 6 Reed warblers and plenty more heard. Sledge warbler, 2 Chiffchaffs, 2 Willow warblers, 7 Reed buntings, 12 Long tailed tits , family group. 4 Jays, Song thrush, 3 Mistle thrush Goldcrest 2 Wrens Moorhen, 2 Coots, Garden warbler heard but not seen. 8 Swifts.



-- Edited by Dave Thacker on Thursday 21st of June 2018 09:02:07 PM

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Worsley woods

12.15-13.45 ish

No sign of the Green woodpecker. But did hear a distant yaffle (I think)

Goldcrest

Treecreeper

Grey wagtail

Blackcap m

Nuthatch

Buzzard over the motorway

Mistle Thrush having a right ding dong with a Magpie

Pair of Robins

Cheers Jay 

Dont twitch and drive



-- Edited by Jason Dulhanty on Tuesday 1st of May 2018 02:18:15 PM

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