One of the biggest flocks of Pink footed Geese I've ever seen over our garden in central Warrington has just gone over all going NE it took a good 5 mins for them to go over .
Pink Footed Geese - 3500+ in one continuous Flock NE 18.10pm
Constant movement South this afternoon over the garden of Swallows heading for Africa for the winter,probably 2000 + in 2 hours intermingled with a few hundred House Martins ,looks like Winter is just round the corner and I expect the first Winter Thrushes to arrive in the next week or so .
SE Warrington after the rain early morn I was washing up / cooking at my kitchen window. Between 5:50am and 6:30am 80+ Swallows flew South often stopping circling over the canal before moving on. Best house window VisMig I've seen since the big fall of Redwing last autumn.
340ish mostly Black-headed but also some (25ish) Lesser Black-backed Gulls a couple hundred feet high in a tight defined "column" in the air over the wasteland at the East end of the A574 Birchwood Expressway. 5 - 10 Gulls arriving every minute from the South East direction (Woolston Eyes direction). At a guess feeding on flying ants?
Over Grey Mist Mere this afternoon one Great White Egret flying north, then just before the rain at least 30 Sand Martin over the mere and they stayed until at least 18.20
Pair of Shoveler on Whittle Hall Duck pond Great Sankey which seemed unusual for the middle of a housing estate although I've seen Pochard, Tufted Duck and Gadwall on there in the past.
just had the first Osprey of the year going SW over our garden being chased by Herring Gulls and Lesser Black Backed Gulls, a great garden tick , although ive seen them a few times in the last few years over our Warrington garden , heading towards the Mersey.
Overwintering Chiffchaff in the garden this afternoon with its pals , it should be in Africa really as its mainly a Summer visitor but a few overwinter locally, also Long Tailed Tits, and the resident Grey Wagtail today which is not bad in central Warrington
We still have the Resident Grey Wagtail in the garden at the moment living off dried meal worms which it loves , Also today 3 Great Tit, 2 Robin, 3 Blackbird ,3 Dunnock, 5 Blue Tit, 2 Female Chaffinch . Picture the Grey Wagtail on our frozen pond
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 15th of January 2021 07:17:54 PM
We have a more or less Resident Grey Wagtail around the garden pond at the moment I have been feeding it meal worms for a few weeks . Also Chaffinch, 4 Coat Tit, 4 Great Tit, 8 Blue Tit, 3 Dunnock, a Robin and a pair of Blackbird in the garden today in Central Warrington .
Just had a new bird for the garden a Male by size Merlin flew south fast over our house and headed towards Bank Park Warrington, probably heading for the Mersey near Moore ,another amazing bird for central Warrington,
All evening attacks, but I wouldn't risk a daytime visit with optics !
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/teen-gang-meat-cleavers-went-15743039
https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/17390105.gang-armed-with-meat-cleaver-strike-five-times-in-orford-over-weekend
-- Edited by John Watson on Saturday 2nd of February 2019 10:04:54 AM