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The Mute Swan family at Main Lake is down to 4. I found the 5th youngster about 1/4 mile away waddling along the approach track and looking quite poorly with a badly kinked neck. I have reported this to the RSPCA. Also:

1 Male Gadwall
4 Tufted Duck
4 Little Grebes
A few Siskins flying over

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Coot 123 (back pools not checked)
Little Grebes 7
Tufted Duck 1m, 1f
Mute Swan 5

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Coot numbers now up to 133
Flock of Canada Geese (78) now contains a single Pinkfoot
Gadwall 2m, 1f
Tufted Duck 2m
Little Grebe 6
Mute Swan 5

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Sat 7th Nov 08.15-09.00:

2 Female Pochards (soon cleared off)
Pair Gadwall
1 Male Tufted Duck
7 Little Grebes still
+ usuals

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Coot 119 (season high)
Moorhens 21
Wigeon 5
Shoveler 1f
Pochard 1m
Gadwall 1m
Little Grebes 7
Mute Swan family
Black-headed Gulls 8
Siskins heard overhead

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A nice selection of ducks today - good for this site anyway.

Shoveler 1f (1st this year for me here)
Pochard pair
Tufted Duck 1m
Wigeon 1f
Teal 1f
Mallard many
Mute Swan 5
Little Grebe 5

Cheers John

-- Edited by John Rayner on Monday 2nd of November 2015 08:36:26 PM

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Main Lake:
1 Kingfisher
1 Tufted Duck female
1 Common Gull
111 Coot
2 Gadwall
1 Wigeon
4 Little Grebes
72 Canada Geese

Linnet Clough Reservoir:
1 Woodcock
1 Little Grebe
2 Mistle Thrush
3 Fieldfare
82 Canada Geese

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1 Wigeon and 2 Gadwall still.

6 Little Grebes.

5 Mute Swans.

111 Coot.

20 Moorhens.

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Wigeon 1f (my first local one of the year)

Gadwall 2m

Little Grebe 4

Mute Swan 5

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Coot 109 (numbers still building)
Moorhen 24
Little Grebe 4
Mute Swan 5
Tufted Duck 1f (there has been a very poor turnover of waterfowl this year. A Pochard and a couple of Gadwall early on but nothing at all so far this autumn)

House Martin c130 (difficult to estimate numbers in a single swirling flock)
Siskin 2
Jay 2
Nuthatch 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1

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7 Little Grebes
Unseen Pinkfoot flock overhead in the mist
1 Buzzard

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6 Little Grebes
101 Coot (First count in 3 figures this autumn)
1 Buzzard

Cheers John

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Late news 25th: Now 5 Little Grebes

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Main Lake:
Nothing new

Low Lea Road:
Single flock of 23 House Martins moving south down the R. Goyt
Chiffchaff 1

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Main Lake:
Coot 93
Moorhen 12 min
Mute Swan 5
Little Grebe 2
Cormorant 3
Mallards uncounted

Bottoms Bridge:
Dipper 1

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A family fun day this afternoon but at least all the hordes, side stalls, brass band and beer tent pushed all the birds into the far corner allowing an accurate count.

Coot 78
Little Grebe 3 still
Mute Swan 5 still

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Main Lake:

Coot 80
Little Grebe 3
The single Great Crested Grebe adult and 1 chick have been absent since 2nd Sep. Not good as the 2nd brood chick was only 1/2 grown and still dependent
Mute Swan 2ad, 3 juv

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Main Lake:
Great Crested Grebe 1ad, 1 juv (i hope the rest of the family were tucked under the willows somewhere)
Little Grebe 2ads, 1 juv
Teal 9
Mandarin 1f
Mute Swan 2 ads, 3 juvs
Coot 73
Moorhen 18

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1st August:

Coots 66 (numbers building)
Mute Swans 2 + 3 cygnets
Great Crested Grebe pair still sitting
House Martins 12
Swallow 1

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Mute Swans now have 3 cygnets. One taken into care a couple of days ago (RSPCA?)
Pair Great Crested Grebes still on nest
c30 Swallows (many juvs)
8 House Martins
2 Sand Martins
3 Swifts

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Pair of Mute Swans with all 4 cygnets surviving
Great Cested Grebe pair are again sitting on eggs. No sign of the 2 well grown youngsters from the first brood. Presumably they have moved on.
Coots - 45 including the darvic ringed individual (white ARD)
Mallard 86
Grey Heron 1

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Mute Swan (2+4) and Great Cested Grebe (2+2) - no further losses
Tufted Duck - 1 female
Greylag Goose - 1 feral bird has latched onto the local Canada Goose flock

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6 Mute Swans (2ad, 4 young)
4 Great Crested Grebes (2ad, 2 young almost full sized)
59 Coots (31ad, 28 young)
42 Canada Geese (37ad, 5 young)

1 large Red-eared Terrapin, carelessly abandoned in Main Lake, which will probably make a meal of many of the young birds mentioned above.

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Mute Swans have 4 cygnets
Pair of Great Crested Grebes still feeding 2 young
Female Gadwall
12 House Martins

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Main Lake:

Great Crested Grebe pair have 2 well developed chicks
Mute Swan still sitting
Coot broods of 2, 4, 4, 5 with 1 bird still sitting
Grey Heron 2
Blackcap and Chiffchaff singing

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Great Crested Grebe female carrying chicks but couldn't see how many.
Mixed hirundine flock low over the water: 25 Sand Martins, 10 Swallows, 3 House Martins..

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Nesting birds:

Coot 5, Canada Goose 1, Mute Swan 1, Great Crested Grebe 1. Also:

Gadwall pair
Little Grebe pair
Tufted Duck 2m, 1f
House Martins c25
Swallows 6
Blackcap 2
Grey Heron 1

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Coot 19 (4 nests)
Mallard 56
Canada Goose 26 (including 1sitting on nest on platform made for the Swans - a Coot nesting on same platform just a couple of feet away)
Tufted Duck 1m
Great Crested Grebe 2
Moorhen 3
Nuthatch 4
Blackcap 3

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Great Crested Grebe now sitting on eggs

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2 Greylags (these in addition to the resident farmyard Greylag type)
5 Tufted Ducks
2 Great Crested Grebes nest building
2 Coots sitting

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Dipper 2 Grey Wagtail on River, Several Chiffchaffs, Several Goldcrest, Long Tailed Tits, Great Crested Grebes, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Tufted Ducks the Feral Barnacle Goose and 2 Buzzards.

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Main Lake:
As 16th except now Little Grebes (2)

River Goyt:
Chiffchaffs (2 singing)
Mandarin (pair)
Goosander (pair)
Dipper (pair displaying)
Grey Wagtail (2)

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North Lake:
Goosander (pair)

Main Lake:
Great Crested Grebe 2
Tufted Duck 3m, 2f
Mute Swan (pair)
Cormorant 1
No migrants yet

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Wander through from Bottoms Bridge to Windybottom Farm & back.

1 Buzzard (Light Phase) at the far end of the horse paddock
2 Great Crested Grebe on main lake, inspecting a Coot nest
1 Cormorant
3 Goldcrest in conifers on walk down to Railway bridge
2 female Goosander
2 Dipper
Male & female Mandarin Duck on stretch of river close to turn off for railway tunnel near Windybottom Farm

Small numbers of Blue/Great/Coal/Longtailed Tits & 4 Goldfinch in the trees opposite the main house

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Not much changing except winter Coot flock is dispersing rapidly.

Coot 44
Moorhen 18
Mallard c50
Great Crested Grebe 2
Mute Swan 2
Grey Heron 1
Cormorant 1


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Main Lake:

Now a pair of Great Crested Grebes (nest building and display)
3 Tufted Duck (2m, 1f)

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Main Lake:
Great Crested Grebe 1
Tufted Duck 3m, 2f

Linnet Clough Reservoir:
Siskin 2 (Pair with male in full song. They have been really scarce [absent?] round here this winter)
Bullfinch 1
Goldfinch 6
Buzzard 1

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1st Great Crested Grebe of the year
7 Tufted Duck (4m, 3f)
Buzzard sat in field opposite Main Lake

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Main Lake:

Gadwall 1m
Tufted Duck 1f
Goosander 1m, 1f
Kingfisher 1
Coot 77
Moorhen 23

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Cold and fog bound:

A drake Pochard on Main Lake was the first here for 15 months.
Mixed flock of Redwings (c70) and Starlings (c50) in field opposite
3 Dippers downstream towards Marple Bridge

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Coot ARD was ringed as an adult at Pennington Flash on 05/12/2012. This is the first confirmed sighting since.

(Info thanks to Kane Bridges)

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Thanks Steve,

I read a very similar Coot ring at Reddish Vale in 2013 - WHITE ANF. That one was ringed at Moses gate. I will contact Kane.

Cheers, John

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Hi John

The Coot may well have been ringed by Kane Brides: kanebrides@gmail.com



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Main Lake 99% frozen:

Coot numbers down to 74 but one, standing out on the ice, was ringed. This could be read courtesy of an on-the-spot photo by Mike Poole. Black lettering ARD on WHITE Darvic. I wonder how far it has travelled?

Other than that fairly quiet with 1 Little Grebe and 2 Mute Swans remaining but the only duck present was Mallard.

Cheers John

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Main Lake:
Goosander 2m, 1f
Little Grebe 1
Tufted Duck 2f

River Goyt:
Grey Wagtail 1
Dipper 2
Goldcrest 1
Goldfinch 16
Kestrel 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1

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26th Jan:

Coot 93
Moorhen 24
Tufted Duck 3
Mute Swan 2
Little Grebe 1
Goldfinch 18
Long-tailed Tit 8

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Coot 96
Tufted Duck 7 (5m, 2f)
Mute Swan 2
Plus usual numbers of Mallard and Moorhen

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a.m. New influx of thrushes:

Redwing 29
Blackbird 16
Mistle Thrush 1
Bullfinch 5
Buzzard 3

p.m. 3 Singing Dippers together on the River Goyt towards Marple Bridge. None looked to be ringed.

Cheers John

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North Lake:
Goosander 2f, 1m

Main Lake:
Coot 109
Moorhens 39
Great Crested Grebe 1
Little Grebe 2
Tufted Duck 2f
Mute Swan 2

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26th Dec.

Main Lake:
Great Crested Grebe 1
Little Grebe 1
Teal 5
Tufted Duck 4
Sparrowhawk 1
+ Usuals

Linnet Clough Reservoir:
Woodcock 1
Kingfisher (heard)

Cheers John

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