16:10 in rapid succession flocks of 77, 95, 43 and 88 Pink-footed Geese over North Appleton (coming from the South). The flocks of 77 and 43 both turned west at the Ship Canal and headed NNE over Fiddlers Ferry (which is a direct bearing to Martin Mere) whilst the flocks of 95 and 88 turned again to line up with the Ship Canal and went WSW/SW to either Frodsham Score of the Dee Estuary.

20 Redwings this morning in poplars behind our house central Warrington near bank park . 150 Redwing over sw

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Each of the last three night Nocmig Rig has picked up over 200+ Redwing calls pretty much spread through the night. 

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20th to 24th Redwings dropped to less than 100 per night but still a steady stream with 8 Fieldfare on 24th and a Hawfinch which looks good also on Sonogram (0.98 match).

Interestingly I've found that my PC isn't very quick to process files via the BTO Acoustic pipeline (3hrs processing per nights data) but when I run a Windows Emulator App with BTO AP on my iPhone I could do five nights data in seven hrs!

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 28th - 30th around 60 Redwing per night in small groups of up to 10 close together.

Fieldfare 8 29th.

Hawficnh five calls captured between 04:L50 and 05:20 30th Oct.

(These are all North Appleton).

11  Ring-necked Parakeets Red Lane Allotments

Interesting about the geese thanks as I had been watching them in the mornings around 8am (going SW) and evenings around 5/6pm a few times over the last week when I have been around and wondering where they were going between but hadn't got around to looking on a map (watching from Appleton, the most I estimated so far was around 1100 on Sunday in the evening going NE towards Liverpool direction.

A walk near the M56, starting from Arley Road, using the public right of way through fields towards Apple Jacks Adventure Farm on 19th October, over the motorway bridge and around the other side. Not the nicest walk due to the traffic noise at times and the ground conditions requiring vigilance but still Meadow Pipit, Skylarks, Redwing and then late afternoon Starlings starting to gather for murmuration (not huge numbers but already interesting to watch as they swirled around and then came down in the fields repeatedly). 

Over our garden near to Bank park today

Pink Footed Geese - 60 > SW

Buzzard over the garden being chased by a crazy

30 Magpies all headed towards the park.

Nuthatch on my garden feeders in Appleton just now. First since Boxing Day 2019.

And for the second night in a row the two juv Tawny Owls and their parents are deciding to practice screeching in the tree outside my bedroom window in North Appleton. Lovely to watch but last night kept me awake from 2:15 to 5:00am! (Old listed house, none acoustic glazing).

(Parent owls are now familiarly known as Osheen and Rosheen, you juvs have been named Screech and Tounge if anyone gets the play on names from 1970s cartoon magazines).

Passed over Appleton at 8:32.

Plenty of other passage going over as I was out doing garden tasks, four Pied Wagtail individually and four Meadow Pipits in a group (Garden tick!). Coal Tits have returned to the garden for the winter and a mixed Tit Flock (~30) held Long-tailed, Blue, Great Tits and two Goldcrest.

13 Redwing and 65 Pink footed Geese west at 10 am this morning over central Warrington near the Halliwell Jones Stadium over our garden . 

Paddington Meadows am.

3 Cetti's Warblers on the North Bank of the Mersey (2 heard on South Bank towards #4 bed at Woolston also).

2 Jay, one Raven, Blackbird, lots of Magpies (24+), two Chiffchaff, Long-tailed, Blue Great and Coal Tits. Wrens, Robins, Reed Bunting all in sub/song.

Great Black-backed and Lesser Black-backed (6+) Gulls over and Cormorant and 4 Black-headed Gulls.

1 Kestrel and one Marsh Harrier soaring over #4 bed. 

Two Oystercatcher over in flight and a Kingfisher on the river near the info boards.

2 Mute Swan, Mallard, Gadwall, Pochard (flight), Coot, Moorhen, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, flyover Little Egret.

House Sparrows, Dunnock, Goldfinch and Green finch at the allotments at Kingsway Bridge with the dreaded Ring-necked Parakeets (5) having a good time on the fruit bushes.

Starlings (~50-55) on the electric pipes at the rowing club with a couple of House Martins and a few Swallows (5-7).

Smallish skein of Pink-footed Geese over North Appleton a few minutes ago, going SE/E judging from the sound.

22 Ring-necked Parakeets into the roost at the Market Garden by Red Lane Allotments tonight. They are taking lots of fruit off the allotment at the moment our cherries, berries and apples are decimated. 

Blue and White Budgerigar past our house in Appleton near the Bridgewater Canal about 35 minutes ago if anyone hears of one lost. Looks like it was going to where the Parakeets roost at the old market garden near Red Lane Allotments.

Funny, I used to keep Budgerigars as part of my cage birds (98-2010s) and blue Budgerigar (Buggerigars) were always the escapists. Wonder if it was the RAF colours in them made them 'reach for the sky'!.

South Warrington round Red Lane Allotments / Market garden along Bridgewater Canal up to 17 Ring-necked Parakeets roosting since last Sunday inc at least 6 juv. Tonight nice to see 11 Swift (only second sighting from house this year) in the local.

A family party of 5 raven over our house

In central Warrington ,near to Bank Park Warrington 

Drifted off South . 

Juv Wren flew in through my kitchen window today, perched on the draining rack at the sink, looked at me confused and flew out again. Never had that before.

Mixed year for breeding in the garden, two successful Blackbird Broods, one Long Tailed Tit brood, two House Sparrow broods and three Dunnock broods from two pairs (I think). Juv Chiffchaff was around the other day in the trees on the lane next to the garden and adult again singing from there. Neither Blue Tit brood made it though cold spells killing them off leaving the sad task of clearing the next boxes.

Last couple nights 12, then 14 Ring-necked Parakeets have roosted in a tree to the South of Kingsway Bridge over the Mersey, only a few hundred yards from Woolston #4 bed!!!

And either the art class at school were having a joke or there was the ghostly dusty image of a Tawny Owl having hit a window at Bridgewater Higher School (upper site); no sign of an injured bird. Two pairs Herring Gulls appear to be nesting on the roof also!

Last night and tonight - Tawny Owls calling and flying between trees by Red Lane, North Appleton.

North Appleton - garden list since lockdown. First Song Thrush for many years yesterday and then this morning three Curlew directly flew over NNW-SE taking the post March 2000 list for the Garden to a nice round half century.

North Appleton Tawny Owls tei-twoing each other near Red Lane Allotments at 10pm last night. Today 17 Ring-necked Parakeets hassling one of the Owls in daytime.

33 Waxwing Battersby Lane Warrington  at 2pm yesterday.