5th July 3:05pm - 4:05pm highlights: territorial display between two pairs of buzzards, one adult bird calling from the cricket pitch while its mate circled around the other pair until they drifted back over the motorway; four young grey partridges very fluffy but capable of flight; singing lesser whitethroat on East of the rise.

Sedge Warbler - metal ringed bird still on territory
Lesser Whitethroat - still, ranging from the the summit to the SE end

Tree Pipit 2 still present
Common Whitethroat 4
Willow Warbler 3
Chiffchaff 13
Blackcap 12
Snipe 1
Linnet 1

12 February Raven - 1 flying west over Chester Road, Stretford, 11.57. towards Stretford Meadows

-- Edited by Pete Hines on Tuesday 13th of February 2024 05:55:10 PM

From 1 pm today - Eastern corner behind the basket ball court .
Blackcap -1 m + 1f seen several times.
Robin -1 .
Blackbird - 4.
Song thrush 1 singing several times.
Buzzard - 1.
Wren - 1
Goldfinch 3.
Blue - tit - family of 3.

Elsewhere , very quiet apart from -
Kestrel - 2 (1 adult and 1juvenile ).
Whitethroat - 1 not singing.


Goldfinch flock - c40 ( feeding on knapweed and thistle seed).

-- Edited by phillipskelly on Friday 4th of August 2023 04:56:03 PM

Highlight of this morning's visit was a Red Kite that drifted over, heading east. (Record shot attached.)

Also, at least 2 Sedge Warblers singing near the summit, and a single Herring Gull with 21 Lesser Black-backed on the cricket pitch.

Cuckoo flew low west at 09.43
Sedge Warbler 3 territories
Common Whitethroat 13
Blackcap 7
Chiffchaff 7
Reed Bunting 4
Lapwing 1 over

Sedge Warbler 1 on territory on slope SE of cricket pitch
Whitethroat 8
Reed Bunting 3

Lesser Whitethroat - singing male still at the summit this morning

No sight or sound of the lesser whitethroat in the south east corner this evening but heard a couple of rattles of one on the Eastern slope of the central path from summit.
22 whitethroat
6 blackcap
2 chiffchaff
1 kestrel
1 stock dove
5 ring necked parakeets
2 Reed bunting
Pair of bullfinch
Pair of goosander over.

Lesser Whitethroat singing male roaming the east end

Common Whitethroat 3 singing males
Swallow 1
Reed Bunting 5

Blackcap pair opposite the allotments

Fieldfare - 26 staying faithful to the cricket pitch, present for several weeks

Willow Tit 1 opposite the Moss Park Allotments gate again 53.444204, -2.328069
Fieldfare 14 over
Redpoll 16 minimum

yesterday 12th Nov

Pink-footed Goose 180+ east at 16.20

A pair of ravens on the motorway lighting by the Chester Road exit at 6pm.

Stonechat 1 female east of the cricket club (couldn't see yesterdays male)
Pink-footed Goose 70 east at 08.33
Buzzard 2
Kestrel 2
Chiffchaff 1
Swallow 4 > south
House Martin 4 > south
Pied Wagtail 6 > south
Meadow Pipit 90 > south
Chaffinch 8 > south
Bullfinch 3 > south
Greenfinch 9 > south
Linnet 3 > south
Redpoll > 3 south
Siskin 26 > south

Ring-necked Parakeet 60+ flying east at 18.32
Lesser Black-backed Gull 63 over SW pre dusk

Willow Tit 1 east end at 53.439946, -2.318003 (26m asl)
Goosander 7 fly-over
Whitethroat 2
Sparrowhawk 1 (3X)
Buzzard 1
Kestrel 2

Midday. Common Whitethroats, Greenfinch, Kestrel, Reed Bunting, 3 x Swallows, 3 x House Martin swooping a foot over the flood puddle, 2 x Swift, 1 x Raven over. 1 x Sedge Warbler showing and singing very well in the SE of the meadow. But no sight nor sound of the Lesser Whitethroat.

Now 2 Lesser Whitethroat. One at the summit and one at the east end up from the gas plant.

A family of willow tits two adults and at least one fluffy youngster in the trees by Kickety Brook on the stretch between the meadows and the canal aquaduct at 5:25pm.

Sedge Warbler still on territory (still doing display flights from the same bush)
Whitethroat 12, including juveniles
Sparrowhawk 3, 1 ad female and 2 juv
Kestrel 1

From 3:15 pm today.

Hobby - 1 over the summit of the middle hill heading South over the M60 at 16:35 pm.
Swift - 2.
Pheasant - 1 f.
Whitethroat - 1 heard briefly.
Blackbird - 4 .
Greenfinch - 1.
Collard dove - 2 over.
Goldfinch - 2.
House sparrow - 2.