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RE: Shore Top


Originally posted today by Peter Turner:



Been Walking round Shoretop for Years, way past the Woodchat Shrike in 1997, seen a lot of birds come and go, Like Lapwings they bred up there, Oystercatcher , Tree Sparrows, Yellow Wagtails, Twite, little Owl,  quite a change over the years.  So I thought no one seems to report for Shoretop, here goes.

 

Stroll round today with my wife Iris a couple of miles round the reservoir, which has a small lodge, which is very weeded, but still at times holds good birds? and overlooks another lodge, with views over the Irwell also.

1pm to 2.15 

14, Coot, 4 Tufted Ducks, 2 Swans, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Buzzard, Starlings, House Sparrows, 3 Cormorants, 21 Canada Goose, 2 Moorhen, 35 Fieldfare, 8 Redwings,

1 Treecreeper, 2 Coal Tits, 1 Goldcrest, 3 Blackbirds , 100+ Black Headed Gulls, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 4 Carrion Crows,1 Wood Pigeon, Grey Heron



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Originally posted by Ian Moffatt:

Late post due to a afternoon/late evening fishing trip.

Arrived at 1300 to find a Little Egret in the margins which stayed till 1500 before being chased off by a pair of Black-headed Gulls
last seen flying towards the river Irwell
Pair of Common Terns flying around the water all afternoon also two Grey Herons and a single Cormorant present.
Peregrine flew fast and low over the water after being mobbed by ~ 10 Carrion Crows.
A pair of Great Crested Grebes feeding four juveniles with there persistent whistling begging calls
also a pair of Coots with three juveniles breed successfully on the water.
Kestrel hunting over the adjacent fields.

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Ian

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Originally posted today by Ian Moffatt:


Ornithological first for me whilst fishing on the lodge yesterday (7th April)
Observed a pair of Common Scoters performing a mating display which involved the birds "jerking the head & neck forward simultaneously"
whilst calling a short fluting "pyew-pyew" whistle more akin to a wader than a duck.
Just 30yds away on the water a pair of G.C.Grebes were performing there spectacular mating dance,
plus 3 Swallows put in appearance over the water my 1st siting this spring which always gives me a "uplifting buzz".

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Ian




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Originally posted by Rosemary Naylor today:

One all brown juvenile cormorant on the banks of the Lodge. Saw diving into the water around 3pm.

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2 Ravens on the pylons.



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4 - 5.30pm. 32 species. Highlights as follows:

Swift 15 High up with 2 House Martin
Whitethroat 1 singing
Blackcap 1 singing and 1 female
Buzzard 1
Stock Dove 1


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midday yesterday (1th):

40 Redwing
Chiffchaff
Snipe
6 Mute Swan

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

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Common Buzzard,4 Kestrel, 6 Stock Dove, 2 Skylark, 6 Meadow Pipit, 30 Linnet.

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