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Mark Burgess


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11.45 - 13.15 warm sunny visit.

Along the River Glaze
Common Whitethroal 1
Swallow 4
Mallard 12
Grey Heron

Windy Bank
Common Whitethroat 3
Willow Warbler 4
Chiffchaffs 2
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1, another woodpecker heard drumming but unable to locate it
Tree Sparrow 3
Buzzard 2
Lapwing 4
Swallow 6
Carrion crow 6

Also good numbers of
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Long Tailed Tit
Chaffinch
Robin


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Paul Richardson


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7.15 - 10am Gorgeous clear, sunny, calm.

Kestrel 1

Mallard 8 on River Glaze
Gadwall 2 (1m1f)
Moorhen 1

Chiffchaff - 3 (1 seen 2 heard)
Willow Warbler - 13 (5 seen, 8 heard)
Songthrush - 5
Mistle Thrush - 4
Lapwing - 5

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2
Reed Bunting - 4
Wren - 10 (1 seen, 9 heard!)

Cuckoo - 1 (on fencepost then flew down onto grass between tufts of rushes)

Goldfinch - 1
Common Whitethroat - 6
Treecreeper - 1 (year tick)
Common Buzzard - 3
Chaffinch - 4
Swallow - 1
Willow Tit - 2
Long tailed tit - 2
Lesser Black Backed Gull (over) 3
Black Headed Gull (on field) 20

Plus the usual
Woodpigeon
Blackbirds
Great Tits
Blue Tits
Carrion Crows


By my standards, a species count of 28 is pretty good going, and Windy Bank was lonely and beautiful. 3 dog walkers, no other birders, few railway maintenance lads, and an individual in a very noisy microlight! smile

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6 -8.30am
windy,cold and dam right miserable when began raining.
very quiet
1 Wheatear, 5 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, plenty Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff.
plus usuals

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Gordon Newman


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10.15
45 mins cycle ride round before work for which I was late, first visit for me here will need to spend more time here.

plenty of Chaffinch, Robin and Blackbird singing in woods plus usual tit species

Yellowhammer 1
Reed Bunting 1
Buzzard 5
Kestrel 2
Canada Goose
Mallard
Lapwing
Skylark
plus the usual birds seen over fields like Woodpigeon

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Raymond Ashcroft


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Late posting for Sun 4th

Very quiet - with the exception of good views of buzzards; 7 overhead at one point

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Ian McKerchar


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This afternoon:

family parties of Buzzard, Willow Tit, Treecreeper, Blackcap, Coal Tit, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Chaffinch, Long-tailed/Blue/Great Tit plus male Yellowhammer and distant Peregrine probably over Astley Moss SSSI area before heading south.

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Ian Woosey


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9/7/11 (am)

A 3hr circular mooch from the bridge at Jennets Lane, through the Forestry Commission wood and Windy Bank Farm, and back round via Bridge Farm and Hawk Hurst Farm:

1 Peregrine (over)
3 Corn Buntings (others heard singing) in tilled field South of Bridge Farm
1 Yellow Wagtail (juv) in horse paddock at Bridge Farm
1 Little Owl
2 Ravens (over)
1 Buzzard
1 Oystercatcher (over)
1 Tufted Duck (f) w/5 young on the Glaze Brook
2 Willow Tits
2 Tree Sparrows - Hawk Hurst Farm
4 Kestrels
2 Skylarks

Blackcap, Meadow Pipits, Bullfinches, Reed Buntings, Whitethroats, Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush etc

3 Embden Geese & 1 Muscovy Duck
1 Mink


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Decided to have a nice afternoon stroll with the family around here as I hadn't been up around here for about 2 years. I have to say that the place looked absolutely lovely. The newly planted trees all look to be doing well and the meadow areas were full of wild flowers. Bird wise I saw the following: -

Cracking views of a pair of Garden Warbler literally metres away from where I was standing - just typical I didn't bring the camera!!
Loads of other warbler activity.
Willow warbler
Chiffchaff
Whitethroat
Blackcap
4 Buzzard
2 Kestrel
Wood pigeon
Blackbird
Blue tit
Goldfinch
Reed Bunting
Pheasant
Swallows
Swifts
Sand Martins near the river
Heron

Need to make time to walk round here more often.

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Raymond Ashcroft


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Very Quiet this afternoon in the rain

Two Buzzards and two kestrels over Windy Bank itself

The Glaze must have plenty of small fish in at the moment - starting at Hope Carr and finishing at Jennets Lane, I saw a total of five cormorants fishing.

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Raymond Ashcroft


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Early Afternoon

Plenty of larger birds

2 Buzzards
4 Kestrels
1 Sparrowhawk
60+ Woodpigeons
14 Mistle Thrushes
Magpies
Grey Heron
Black Headed Gulls
Lesser Black Backed Gulls overhead
Canada Geese and Moorhen on Glaze

but few smaller birds - only
Swallows
House Martins
Goldfinches


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Raymond Ashcroft


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Unfortunately no Kingfishers this afternoon but family of four Kestrels - 2 adults and 2 Juveniles. Also young Treecreeper still being fed by parent.

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Crackin' walk this afternoon:

Tufted Duck with 10 very small young on the Glaze by Jennets Lane.
Mute Swan pair with 3 cygnets as above.
Kingfisher on the Glaze as above.
5 Buzzard
Single Kingfisher by a rather small pond at Windy Bank
1 singing Chiffchaff
Couple of singing Blackcaps
Pair of Yellowhammer


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Raymond Ashcroft


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Thurs 10th June

Buzzard - at least two
Kestrel
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Plenty of Fledglings - Great Tits, Blue Tits, Whitethroat and Coal Tits

Pair of Swans with three cygnets on the Glaze

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Ian McKerchar


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Male Whinchat this afternoon along the very northern edge of the area was a very nice bird for this site especially

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Raymond Ashcroft


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Sat 8th May - 10.30am - 12.30pm

Whitethroats everywhere
Also Blackcaps, Chiifchaffs and Willow Warblers
Plenty of Treecreeper activity - at least two differents pairs - one pair nest building
Swifts and Swallows
Kestrel
Coal Tit

-- Edited by Raymond Ashcroft on Saturday 8th of May 2010 01:35:14 PM

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3:30-5:00pm this afternoon:

Garden Warbler- 1 by the entrance to Windy Bank Wood from the main track.
Blackcap- 6
Whitethroat- 2
Lesser Whitethroat- 2, one singng along the entrance track in Hawthorns in the sheep fields and one singing by the big pool in Windy Bank
Willow Warbler- 5
Chiffchaff- 2
Great Spotted Woodpecker- 1
Mallard with 5 ducklings on the Glaze.

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Raymond Ashcroft


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Sat 10th April

Buzzard (2)
Kestrel (3)
Jay (3)
GS Woodpecker (a pair)
Chiffchaff

plus usual sightings

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Raymond Ashcroft


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Fri 12th March - early pm

Buzzard (2)
Kestrel
GS Woodpecker (2)
Treecreeper
Redwing (15+)
Fieldfare (12)

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Raymond Ashcroft


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Sun 7th Mar - am

Windy Bank definitely improving - I could't match Dave's number of species from yesterday but did see
Min 4 Buzzards
2 Kestrels
Coal Tit
Redwing (min 20)
and a treecreeper
plus usual stuff

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Apologies if this place has been covered in the general Mosses thread - do move it if so. I had my first walk around this Forestry Commision site today, very pleasant. 32 species including Willow Tit, 2 singing Coal Tit, 20 Redwing, 150 vocal Starling between wood and sheep pasture, min 5 Buzzard in vicinity, 450 Woodpigeon and 5 Stock Dove on adjacent pasture, 2 Teal nearby on River Glaze, presumably blissfully unaware that they were swimming on the GM (Wigan/Warrington) boundary

-- Edited by dave broome on Saturday 6th of March 2010 10:14:33 PM

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 13th of March 2010 09:42:12 AM

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