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Ian Boote


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-- Edited by Ian Boote on Friday 18th of April 2014 02:43:48 PM

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A great morning's birding with Dave Steel on one of his local patches (Little Woolden and Cadishead Mosses, covering fields 38,56,57,64 on Dave's scheme for recording on the mosses, featured elsewhere on this site). In strong sunshine there was plenty of bird activity, with 2 skeins of 380 Pink-footed Geese flying east, a fly-by Peregrine, singles of Corn Bunting, Brambling and Siskin plus: 56 Teal, 7 Grey Partridges, 224 Fieldfares, 48 Redwings, 6 Mistle Thrushes, 17 Reed Buntings, 35 Meadow Pipits, 6 Tree Sparrows, 2 Redpolls, 1 Snipe, 29 Linnets, 105 Starlings, singles of Sparrowhawk, Kestrel and Buzzard, 110 Skylarks and 2 Bullfinches.

Other wildlife was well represented, too, with: 4 Brown Hares, 1 Migrant Hawker, 1 Black Darter, 38 Common Darters, 2 Red Admirals and 3 Small Tortoiseshells.

Cheers David

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Steve Christmas


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Sorry, M62 not M602.

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Tight swirl of ca. 1,500 starling over the M602 near Little Woolden Moss at 8am this morning looked like they had just left a roost.

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The area is known as Ringing Pits, and yes, they have bought it. I will PM you privately about the LWT...

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On Friday moning last week I met 2 guys from Lancashire Wildlife trust on Little Woolden moss in the area of f38 (the old barn). They told me that the trust had bought that piece of land (approx 8 hectares). They are going to encourage the land to return to natural bog and some work is going to start soon, nothing too drastic by all accounts, just to get the land to hold a bit more water if I undestood him right. This is probably very similar to what they have done at Rindle road. We will have to wait and see if this has any repercussions to us birders who watch the area.

Mike

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