At 10:45 hrs this morning - Peregrine sat on the 'B' of 'Beyond' (not the 'B' of the 'Bang'!) on the Beyond building side facing the Manchester Ship Canal.
2 peregrines sat close to each other on the chimney tower in Premier Park whilst driving home from work at 2.05pm, had to pull over just to double check with my binoculars.
Peregrine falcon only seen once this week, just Monday whilst on my way to work in its usual spot on the chimney tower in Premier park. Whilst driving into work yesterday, Thursday, a great spotted woodpecker was actually flying along directly above my car & carried on in the direction of the Trafford Centre as I turned in to work. 2 pied wagtails feeding on 3rd avenue yesterday also.
-- Edited by steven burke on Friday 3rd of December 2021 11:13:10 PM
At least 10 blackbirds again feeding on the Rowan tree in my works car park on Broadway just after 10am this morning, heard a song thrush in the trees but didn't see it, also 2 blue tits. Whilst watching the birds feeding several gulls were suddenly making a lot of noise, on looking around I noticed a peregrine falcon was perched up on an ariel mast not too far away next to Eddie stobart,it soon flew off though.
8 mistle thrush, 2 blackbirds & 6 starlings feeding on a Rowan tree in my works car park on Broadway this morning at 10am. On Friday there was 13 blackbirds feeding there. Peregrine falcon been seen regularly on the tower in Premier Park over the last couple of weeks, not seen today on my way home though.
Still in the Trafford Golf Centre overspill car park. A female Kestrel landed on the security light post next to me 15.10 pm. Peregrine now gone, but two buzzards slowly circling above at 15.12 pm.
Whilst parked in Trafford retail park looking in the direction of beyond looking to see if any peregrines were there at 10.25am, there wasn't any peregrines, but a grey heron flew over the Trafford Centre heading in the direction of beyond but lost from view behind the trees. 10 minutes later 3 jays flew from the direction of the Trafford Centre High up & heading my way over the retail park. On leaving at 11am I then noticed a peregrine was actually sat on one of the pylons next to beyond, also 9 starlings were sat about 20 feet away from the peregrine.
Peregrine still on the B of the Beyond sign on the eastern side of the centre at just after 3pm today, also seen it on two separate occasions there whilst driving past within a week.
I think this is the closest thread. I was surprised to see a buzzard fly very low West over the junction of Davyhulme Road and Park Road (just South of Kelloggs) at 17:45. Local magpies did not look impressed.
On Wednesday 8th whilst on my way to work a tit flock was roaming around st Anthonys church on 11th Street, it also had 2 chiffchaff & a nuthatch. Yesterday Thursday 9th a chiffchaff was singing in the same area & again singing today also a great spotted woodpecker was calling at the top of a tall conifer. Starlings still gathering in several locations enjoying all the berries.
A great spotted woodpecker flew directly over my place of work on Broadway as I just finished at 1pm today, also 9 Canada geese as I watched the woodpecker fly over. There has been a gathering of starlings around Trafford park recently, they are enjoying the berries on the Rowan trees, the flocks seem to be from as little as around 50 but yesterday I watched a large flock go over my works whilst on my break, they did a murmeration as they passed over, this flock contained at least 700 birds & they headed in the direction of the Trafford centre.
A good morning for Birds of Prey over the 'BEYOND' building, Peregrine turned up late morning on its usual perch and also Hobby, Kestrel and Buzzard over.
Peregrine was sat on the top of one of the pillars of the new suspension bridge. Which gave me an excellent close up view of it from my van, as I drove past it within 20 feet, on the anticlockwise inside lane of the M60, Barton fly over. It was sat on a different pillar at 2,15pm as I was driving home.
A peregrine falcon went low over my work place on Broadway at 10.05 am this morning whilst on my break, it had a little swoop at a crow that was actually harassing a lesser black backed gull with food.
2 peregrines over my works on Broadway whilst on my break around 4.15pm this afternoon, they looked to be heading towards cargill so probably going to hunt the pigeons there. Also a lapwing over guiness Road trading estate calling.
A buzzard & a peregrine both circling over guiness Road trading estate whilst driving home from work yesterday just after 2pm. Several chiffchaffs around Trafford Park but only heard 1 willow warbler near village way circle.
1:35pm two buzzard's and an adult female peregrine having a violent altercation above the gates to Cargill on Guinness rd. At one point the peregrine managed to bring one of the buzzard's down to about 5 feet off the ground into the middle of Guinness rd where they were both nearly hit by passing vehicles!! Luckily (with possibly me disturbing them as I was trying to film them on my phone) they let go of each other and flew away.
Whilst on my break at work on Broadway I noticed a couple of pigeons flying past with a peregrine right behind them, they were soon out of view, within several minutes there was the peregrine with a kill flying over the building next to my works (Kerry logistics) & landing on it but out of my view. All the gulls that were around were then getting noisey & flying around. I decided to walk through my works & go out to the other car park where I could then see the peregrine plucking away, gulls still not happy.