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RE: Trafford Park


2 Peregrine currently in the usual spot on the 'BEYOND' building, on and off through the morning.

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Quick wander around the Ecology Park as I was passing.

1 Chiffchaff singing
2 Bullfinch (pair)
2 Teal (pair)
1 Buzzard
1 Lesser Black Backed Gull
6 Canada Goose
7 Coot
4 Moorhen
2 Mallard
1 Fox


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2 Peregrine currently sitting on the 'BEYOND' building, on the side lettering facing The Trafford Centre.

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Peregrine hunting around 'Beyond' building this morning, also a steady movement of Woodpigeon earlier, 150 over in 15 minutes.
20 Geese high up, looked like Pink-footed Geese over west.

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Trafford Centre and Beyond/iFly area 13:45 - 14:30

  • Black-headed Gull 16
  • Blackbird 2
  • Carrion Crow 8
  • Feral Pigeon 12
  • Goldfinch 3
  • Great Tit 2
  • Greenfinch 1
  • Jackdaw 4
  • Long-tailed Tit 1
  • Magpie 7
  • Robin 5
  • Woodpigeon 1
  • Wren 2


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2 Peregrine sitting on the 'Beyond' letters or on top of the building during the morning also 25 Lapwing over.

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2 Peregrine sitting on the 'Beyond' letters at 8.15 in this mornings gloom!

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Hi martin, I have reason to believe that this bird is one of the media city pair & possibly the female but I still could be wrong. Definitely not the media city male as he has a longer than average bill & this bird on the tower, which I have been seeing a lot of lately looks like a bigger female.
The 3rd peregrine you have seen may be this one in the photo attached which I have seen lately hanging around, a much younger bird.


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The past two days Ive been working delivering all over Trafford park.

I still can't work out if the Peregrine that I see occasionally perched the Chimney is one of the BBC ones or not, yet I keep seeing 3 flying around the area. I'm sure one is a young one that keeps getting chased out of the territory. 

Yesterday around the ecology park I saw 3 buzzard's high up and two kestrels displaying and squabbling with a peregrine.

Today and yesterday I've seen a large female sparrowhawk hunting around and on the addidas factory. 



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2 Peregrine still around the 'BEYOND' building or adjacent pylons this morning.

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2 Peregrine still today, finding food easy with a couple of nice plump pigeons taken this morning, they are tending to use the Pylons next to the 'BEYOND' building beside the motorway.

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That I imagine is Pablo, escaped from Sale over the weekend.. lol

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I was watching a flock of 200+ black-headed gulls wheeling over the Freightliner terminal when a scarlet macaw flew overhead. I suspect this might not be a Category A vagrant but it took my mind off Lockdown forcing me to dip on the cackling goose.



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Peregrine falcon still continues to show on my way home from work just after 2pm whilst driving down Trafford park road monday, Tuesday & today. I paid a brief visit on sunday afternoon & got some distant photos. I do believe this now could well be one of the media city pair.
Also today a buzzard was being mobbed by 3 crows over the ecology park.

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A peregrine falcon continues to be seen regularly now around chep uk on village way, was seen 3 times last week, monday, thursday & Friday when coming home from work & seen again today when going to work around 1.15pm.

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Just for the record as it's actually out of Trafford Park in Davyhulme but a Peregrine that I assume is one of these has over the weekend and also today been hunting over the Davyhulme Millennium Nature Reserve - a spectacular dive earlier saw it take a Wood Pigeon, the speed was simply breath taking  



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2 Peregrines again today on the BEYOND letters for most of the morning.

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Saturday 23.1.20

2 Peregrines sat on pylon in front of the golf centre, male on the top strut and presumed female sat well in towards the main body of pylon. Not much action in the hour I was there , viewed from Beyond.

Sunday 24.1.20

2 Peregrines sat on same pylon, then the male started hunting the local pigeons with 1 near miss viewed from Beyond, had a wander round to the car park of the golf centre , male by this stage was sat on the B of Beyond and the female atop the Pylon. Then she started calling and to our surprise there was another male sat on the E also, this one then got escorted away over towards the Trafford Centre by the male , whilst the female started to hunt the pigeons also, couple of near misses and when I left she was sat in the snow on the roof of Beyond.

A quick mooch around the carpark at Beyond showed what looked like leg rings of Pigeons, feathers from a variety of birds looked like Blackbirds Pigeons and Rink Necked Parakeets, wings off what appeared to be a Jackdaw and then there were bits of flesh lying around as well..
Under the pylon much the same apart from a couple legs

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2 Peregrine again this morning on the 'BEYOND' letters facing The Trafford Centre, also 2 Gadwall on the Ship Canal, 6 Bullfinch, Buzzard among the 34 species recorded.

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Old Park Lane and the Trafford Way 14:25 - 15:10 (the far point on an exercise walk to the Trafford Centre and back)

  • Black-headed Gull 30 overhead
  • Blue Tit 1
  • Bullfinch 3
  • Carrion Crow 5
  • Dunnock 1
  • Great Tit 1
  • Jackdaw 5
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 overhead
  • Magpie 10
  • Peregrine 1
  • Pied Wagtail 6
  • Robin 1
  • Woodpigeon 2

The peregrine was perched atop Beyond, best seen from the Trafford Way near the cycle shop. By the way it was mantling it had obviously caught something, by the size it was more likely a thrush or blackbird rather than a pigeon.

The bullfinches -- two females and a male -- were feeding on the brambles by the Castle In The Air's car park.



-- Edited by Steven Heywood on Friday 15th of January 2021 10:04:05 PM

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1 Peregrine on the 'Beyond' building today at The Trafford Centre, facing the M60, not its usual side, may have something to do with the weather direction!

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2 Peregrine on BEYOND again today, also found a dead Ring-necked Parakeet on the banks of the canal looked as if it was shot.

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Peregrine falcon seen again whilst driving home from work down Trafford park road just after 2pm yesterday.
Common buzzard circling over the ecology park on Wednesday after work.



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11,30am

As I was delivering to one of the service yards at the Trafford Centre, had an adult Peregrine flying around low above me, being very vocal whilst squabbling with a black-headed gull. 



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Peregrine falcon was seen yesterday & today whilst on my home from work just after 2pm whilst driving down Trafford park road it was perched up near chep yesterday but flying around today over chep.

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Both peregrine Falcons perched on BEYOND near the Trafford centre just after 11am this morning. The male was having a bit of a fly around landing on a nearby pylon then back on beyond then off again out of view.
A kestrel was flying around the Trafford centre & the BMW showroom also.


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Peregrine pair on the B of Beyond, near the Trafford Centre, late morning

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2 peregrine Falcons perched on the BEYOND building near the Trafford centre this morning from 11am.
I can confirm that these peregrines are not from media city.



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Trafford Centre - 2 Peregrine this morning on the 'Beyond' building, single bird present for most of the morning.
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Trafford Centre - 2 Peregrine, 1 Buzzard on 'BEYOND' just before lunch, single Peregrine there for most of morning.
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A peregrine falcon was flying around allied mills whilst driving past around 1pm, it then landed briefly on cargill before flying back off heading back towards the quays. Looked possibly like a female.

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2 Peregrines frequently spotted in or around The Trafford Centre over the last couple of weeks, present today again. Probably the same as the Exchange Quay birds.
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A peregrine falcon was perched on allied mills as I drove home from work along coronet way this afternoon at 2.10pm, probably eyeing up the pigeons at Cargill.

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A peregrine falcon flew low over near the parkway circle whilst on my way to work at 1.15pm, despite it being low I couldn't make out if it was an adult or a juvenile as I was driving.

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2 ravens flew low over my work place on broadoak just after 2pm.

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Monday 22nd, Tuesday 23rd I had 2 sightings of a female kestrel along trafford park Road near the ecology park again Monday she was sat on a lampost, on Tuesday she was in flight but could see she had some string of some kind dangling from her talons. This morning I could hear a kestrel calling & 2 were sat on a rooftop near the ecology park, because of looking towards the sun I couldn't make out if it was a pair or maybe an adult with a juvenile.
A sparrowhawk was circling over my works on broadway whilst on my break at 10am also a single swift over.
Several chiffchaff & blackcap singing in various locations throughout the park.

-- Edited by steven burke on Thursday 25th of June 2020 08:48:04 PM

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A peregrine falcon was circling over my works on broadoak whilst I was on my break at 10.05am judging by size it was probably a male. Also 3 swifts over.
2 weeks ago when I was going to work on my bike I had 3 sightings of a great spotted woodpecker flying over tenax circle, always going in the same direction of heading towards centenary circle & that same week a female kestrel perched up on a building on Trafford park Road next to the ecology park. Oystercatchers have been seen & heard regularly throughout the park recently.

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A walk along the Bridgewater Canal this morning from Parkway to Man Utd and return, produced;

Grey Wagtail (feeding off insects on the canal surface and then flying off to, hopefully, a hidden nest)
Jay
3 singing Chiffchaff
2 singing Blackcap
1 singing Common Whitethroat
Mallard
Canada Geese
Swift
Herring Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tit
Blackbird, Song Thrush



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Peregrine falcon circling over guiness road/centenary way whilst on my way home from work at 1pm, probably eyeing up the pigeons at nearby cargyl.

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1pm Pair of Raven's on Guinness Rd Trading estate. Flying around the top end conking loudly. 



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Male blackcap in full song was nice to hear this afternoon in the car park of the trafford park hotel.

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2 male blackcaps in the car park of the trafford park hotel this afternoon, one of them kept chasing a blue tit around.
1 male chaffinch also.

-- Edited by steven burke on Monday 2nd of December 2019 06:23:29 PM

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Yesterday (Friday 28.06.19) whilst walking back to Stretford from Salford quays via Trafford park and Bridgewater canal I heard a Whitethroat singing in the brambles inside the Container Base (at Waters Meet) but it didn't show. I also heard a singing Chiffchaff inside the same location and found it 60 foot up a UHF transmitter !
Other birds
Swift - 1.
Herring Gull - 2.
Lesser Black-Back Gull - 2.

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Having used Tenax Road passing Lanxess works regularly in the recent past, I've noticed a number of adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls flying around . I assume urban nesting is taking place on the roofs of the various buildings.

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A sedge warbler was singing in the bushes outside of the AKW group building at village circle this morning whilst on my way to work, no sight or sound of it on my back from work this afternoon.

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95% certainty of a red kite over the A5081 this evening approx 1945.

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On my way to work this morning...

Chiffchaff singing next to manchester united football ground.
Chiffchaff singing at trafford park ecology park.
Blackcap singing in the trafford park hotel car park.
Common buzzard circling over Cargill, centenary way, spooking all the pigeons.
Oystercatcher heard calling just after 10pm last night 28th.

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Male blackcap feeding alongside 4 blue tits in the trafford park hotel car park this afternoon.

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Wasn't sure where to post this but 2 oystercatcher flew over heading south west calling as I crossed the ship canal and started cycling past B&Q at Trafford Park. On Saturday 24 March

-- Edited by James Richardson on Monday 26th of March 2018 02:57:21 PM

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Male & female blackcap again feeding in the car park of the trafford park hotel this afternoon.
Back on the 17th January there was 25+ chaffinch with several goldfinch in the trees along 11th street, this afternoon whilst driving past there was still a decent number of chaffinch still in the same area but did not stop to count them.

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