Another bizarre Blackbird song you've got to hear if your in the area. Imagine a dance-tune sample sung by an Oriole Park at Lower Memorial Park or the Lancaster Club at the Failsworth end of Broadway and head for the pylons. Thought I was onto something big till I saw him
Along the River Medlock- A pair of Kingfishers, a Long-tailed Tits nest, a Woodcock, Bullfinches, a singing Goldcrest and a pair of Great Tits building a nest down a vertical pipe.
Word's getting round about those Roach shoals - now 3 Cormorants sat on the aerial, one with whitish head and breeding patch. Also, pair of Grey Wagtails over the Canal and Siskin feeding in a very busy Oldham Road-side Alder
A few Swifts were over Brierley Avenue last night. This area is quite a strong hold for them during the summer. Always nice to see them back screeching away.
Above Failsworth Sewage Works, plenty of Whitethroat, Blackcap and ChiffChaff. A few Willow Warblers about and lots of Blackbirds. No hirundine over the sewage works but I suppose not surprising after all the wind, the incects have probably been blown away!
I thought I had a Lesser Whitethroat but the song was more Common Whitethroat. It was a very pale individual though!
4 Goosanders (2 pairs) were on a small unfrozen bit of the Rochdale Canal near Morrisons at Failsworth yesterday (3/1) morning. They were with the other waterfowl and gulls which were being fed bread there, although the Goosanders were not actually seen coming for bread.
Swallow - first one I have seen this spring in this area. Great Spotted Woodpecker - Male sat in tree pondering Chaffinch Greenfinch Goldfinch Blue Tit Great tit Song Thrush Blackbird Collard Dove Woodpigeon
We hear the owls everynight and every morning! Presume they roost/live in the tall trees opposite us. We will soon find out when breeding time comes along!
Park at Lower Memorial Park or the Lancaster Club at the Failsworth end of Broadway and head for the pylons. Thought I was onto something big till I saw him 
They were with the other waterfowl and gulls which were being fed bread there, although the Goosanders were not actually seen coming for bread. 