Even through this area is only 5 minutes walk from my house, I have not visited it since I was at nearby Eccles college in 1977-78. Its changed a lot especially where the water treatment plant was and good news in that there was plenty of birds about.
Old Treatment plant area 13 Magpies 2 Jackdaw 4 Jays 2 GS Woodpeckers 4 Bullfinch [3m,1f] Mistle thrush 4 Goldfinch Blackbird Sparrowhawk[ m] Blue, Great and Coal tits 2 Small flocks of LT tits [ 6 ,9] 3 Robins
After my previous post had a couple of hours today and did not see a single long tail or Robin. That must be the first time ever. Wren Blue tit Great tit Magpie x 19 in one tree Wood pigeon Blackbird Starling Jay Bull finch Chaff finch Crow Heron x 2 (3 sisters, in the stream not the pond) Mistle thrush Field fare Buzzard flying over
I have been going out every few days and putting a couple of bags of seed out at various sites around the fields. The long tail tits seem to be doing well on here, a few people have said they have notied a drop in numbers.
Quick visit this afternoon to do some atlasing. Roost of 116+ magpie and 6 carrion crow Fieldfare Bullfinch 2 Meadow pipit 1 over Sparrowhawk Peregrine Small passerines apparently doing OK: Goldcrest 4 Wren Long-tailed Tit 3 parties
Had a walk over this morning Blue tit Great tit Mistle Thrush Sparrow Hawk Bull Finch Green Finch Robin Jay 50 ish Pinkies over 1 Whooper Over Maybe 6 Fieldfare just as the sun was coming up then Mr Sparrowhawk flew over and put everything up. So not 100%. On the golf course 8 Magpies attacking a Crow really going for it had him pinned down and for a few minutes.
800-10 Today Starling Wood pigeon Blue tit Great tit Long tail tit Jay x 4 Moorhen Bull finch Gold finch Blackbird collered dove Magpie heard Woodpecker drumming
thats correct, the sewage works is adjacent the actual fields/woods. This site has now been cleared of all machinery and nature is taking over again. We have alocal group to try and keep it green space because as usual they want to build on it.
Went and had a quick walk this morning as my little lad was asleep and the wife was busy. I live 2 minutes from the woods/fields and used to play on there all the time when I was a kid. If I go out, it's usually to Pennington or Clifton Country park. But going to make this a new and regular patch.
12.00-1.15 Starling Thrush Robin also found a couple of owl pellets. Bull Finnch Gold Finch x 11 Great Tit Blue Tit Blackbird Magpie Jay Sparrow Hawk number of Gulls Long tail Tits Dunnock
