MB

 

Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
BACK TO THE MANCHESTER BIRDING WEBSITE HOMEPAGE -> Manchester Birding Forum -> GREATER MANCHESTER BIRD SIGHTINGS -> CHORLTON WP
Post Info TOPIC: CHORLTON WP
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
RE: CHORLTON WP
Permalink  

1 Pochard 6 Goosander 14 Gadwall 32 Tufted Duck 1 Kingfisher 6 Siskin

__________________
Pete Hines


Status: Offline
Posts: 2299
Date:
Permalink  

Hobby - 1 adult flew south over Kenworthy Woods at 15.24

__________________
Updated birding videos on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteHinesbirding
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Mandarin pair & female Goldeneye on the lake. 2 Sand Martin along the Mersey.

__________________
Pete Hines


Status: Offline
Posts: 2299
Date:
Permalink  

Kenworthy pm

Blackcap 2
Chiffchaff 10



__________________
Updated birding videos on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteHinesbirding
Pete Hines


Status: Offline
Posts: 2299
Date:
Permalink  

Woodcock -1 Barlow Tip

__________________
Updated birding videos on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteHinesbirding
PHIL GREENWOOD


Status: Offline
Posts: 1178
Date:
Permalink  

Goosander 3 males.
Tufted Duck 15+
Coot 40+
Mallard 60+
Gadwall 15+
Shoveler 2 males.
Cormorant 2
Grey Heron 1
Mute Swan 4 adults, 4 juveniles.
Moorhen 6
RN Parakeet 8
Black-headed Gull 50+
Common Gull 4
etc.etc.etc.

__________________
Phil Greenwood
PHIL GREENWOOD


Status: Offline
Posts: 1178
Date:
Permalink  

Goosander 2 females.
Tufted Duck 15+
Mute Swan 2 adults, 5 juveniles.
Coot 80+
Moorhen 4
Mallard 20+ on the river.
Great Crested Grebe 4
Gadwall 8
Canada Geese
Common Gull 1 adult.
Black-headed Gulls
Ring-necked Parakeet 10+
Goldcrest 2

etc.

__________________
Phil Greenwood
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

1 Pochard and 1 Reed Warbler were the highlights of a walk around this morning.

__________________
Matt Gillett


Status: Offline
Posts: 30
Date:
Permalink  

Lunchtime run limits observations to mainly sound. Of note;

 

Great Spotted Woodpecker (drumming, noted pair high on tree line Kenworthy Woods side of River Mersey)

 

Chiffchaff (weak calling in woods between River Mersey and CWP water body near crossing bridge)



-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 13th of March 2023 03:15:43 PM

__________________

https://twitter.com/mattyjgillett
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

All the usual birds around this morning with the addition of a snoozing Pochard.

__________________
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

80% iced over this morning consequently not much present. Highlights 32 Tufted Duck, 3 Shoveler & 4 Goosander.



-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 22nd of January 2023 02:33:23 PM

__________________
John Shaughnessy


Status: Offline
Posts: 77
Date:
Permalink  

Some quick visits in the last week:

Tufted Duck  -  max. of only 24.

Pochard  -  1 fem./imm.

Goldeneye  -  1 ad. male on river.

Mallard  -  counted along river Jackson's Boat up to C.W.P. bridge, got 93, same as S.W.P. section. Also 20 on C.W.P. lake. So well over 200 Mallard in the S.W.P. - C.W.P. section of Mersey valley.

Water Rail  -  1, E. end reeds.

Coot  -  66, eleven of them with rings, all from C.W.P.

Mute Swan  -  6 adults, prob. three pairs, which was two pairs too many for the resident male, who was spending every minute trying to get to grips with one of the other males. Lots of chasing around, wings raised etc., no peace and quiet for any of the six. One of the females involved was a bird which had spent the last couple of months at S.W.P.

Generally very unexciting for birds.

 



__________________
steven burke


Status: Offline
Posts: 2099
Date:
Permalink  

Afternoon visit.

45 tufted duck
20 goosander
16 shoveler
13 gadwall
2 mute Swan
Amongst the black headed gulls were 2 common gulls & 1 Herring gull
4 cormorant
1 grey heron
Several ring necked parakeets around
2 collared doves
Nice flock of 50+ mostly redpolls & siskins on Barlow tip
1 woodcock on Barlow tip
1 buzzard


__________________
saburke
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Highlights of a walk around this afternoon were:

16 Shoveler

15 Goosander

12 Siskin

4 Goldcrest



-- Edited by Andrew Jeffery on Monday 9th of January 2023 11:37:49 AM

__________________
Joel Tragen


Status: Offline
Posts: 226
Date:
Permalink  

30/12 - dusk visit:

Pochard: 1m
Goldeneye: 3f & 2m
Shoveler: 6m & 2f
Goosander: 6m & 5f
Tufted duck: 27
Great crested grebe: 5
Mute swan: 2
Herring gull: 1 1cy
Cormorant: 1 ad & 1 1cy
Grey heron: 2
+ Kingfisher heard several times


27/12 - dusk visit

Goldeneye: 1f
Shoveler: 4m & 2f
Goosander: 7m & 6f
Tufted ducks: c20
Great crested grebe: 4
Mute swan: 2
Cormorant: 3 ad & 2 1cy

Usual gulls, mallards, etc. Also of note plenty of Coot with colour-rings with 11 reads across both visits.

__________________
PHIL GREENWOOD


Status: Offline
Posts: 1178
Date:
Permalink  

PM visit.

Kingfisher - 1
Goosander - 13 male, 11 female.
Pochard - 1 male, 1 female.
Gadwall - 1 male, 1 female.
Mute Swan - Just 2 adults.
Great crested Grebe - 4
Coot - 70+
Moorhen - 10+
Cormorant - 5
Mallard - 40+
Shoveler - 10 male, 2 adult.
Tufted Duck - 17
Canada Geese - 80+
etc.



__________________
Phil Greenwood
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Highlights this morning: 35+ Tufted, 8 Cormorant. 8 Goosander, 2 Redwing and a solitary Bullfinch.

__________________
PHIL GREENWOOD


Status: Offline
Posts: 1178
Date:
Permalink  

Coot 80+
Tufted Duck 25+
Great Crested Grebe 6
Cormorant 6
Mallard 25+...most on river.
Gadwall 1 male.
Canada Geese 20+
Moorhen 20+
Mute Swan 2
Little Grebe 1
Goosander 1 male.
Grey Wagtail 1
Grey Heron 1
BH Gull 150+
Common Gull 10+
Herring Gull 2
RN Parakeet 10+
etc.

__________________
Phil Greenwood
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Duck numbers slowly starting to build up with:

3 Gadwall & 17 Tufted.



__________________
Ian Howarth


Status: Offline
Posts: 148
Date:
Permalink  

Good views of Reed Warbler singing away in the reeds by the children's play area.

__________________
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

3 Swifts along the Mersey were my first of the year.

__________________
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Late one from yesterday for a walk along the Mersey. Highlights were - Kingfisher, 3 Swallow, 7+ Sand Martin and 2 Common Whitethroat.

__________________
PHIL GREENWOOD


Status: Offline
Posts: 1178
Date:
Permalink  

Goosander- 1 male, 1 female on the river.
Blackcap- 12 singing.
Chiffchaff- 1 singing.
Willow Warbler- 2 singing.
Goldcrest- 1 singing.
Willow Tit- 1 singing.
Song Thrush- 2 singing.
RN Parakeet- 6
Tufted Duck- 1 male, 1 female.
Great Crested Grebe- 3
Mute Swan- 4
Coot- 12+
etc.

__________________
Phil Greenwood
PHIL GREENWOOD


Status: Offline
Posts: 1178
Date:
Permalink  

Goosander 2 females on the river.
Grey Wagtail 1
Blackcap 2 singing.
Chiffchaff 5 singing.
Nuthatch 2
RN Parakeet 9
Great Crested Grebe 3
Buzzard 1
Tufted Duck 15+
Jay 1
plus Mute Swans, Coots, Moorhens, Mallards and Canada Geese.
etc.



__________________
Phil Greenwood
Natalie Clarke


Status: Offline
Posts: 74
Date:
Permalink  

A quick turn around the water Park as the sun was starting to show up! 6 female and 4 male goosander 2 great crested grebe Around a dozen tufted duck 2 song thrush And a gorgeous goldcrest who gave me an amazing mini acrobatic display as he was feeding

__________________
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Walk around in the rain today, not a huge number of ducks about 1 Pochard, 12 Tufted . 4 Herring gulls in a big mixed raft of Common and Black Headed gulls. Highlight was a small mixed flock of 7 Goldfinch, 3 Siskin, 2 Redpoll. 1 Treecreeper and a Goldcrest,

__________________
Ian Howarth


Status: Offline
Posts: 148
Date:
Permalink  

Goosander (m), Goldeneye (f), Shoveller (m +f), Gadwall (m + f), Tufted ducks (m + f), Great Crested Grebes, Cormorant etc

__________________
Tony Coatsworth


Status: Offline
Posts: 937
Date:
Permalink  

Surprisingly few ducks - 6 Tufted Duck, about 10 Mallard, 1 Pochard and a female Shoveler

Flock of around 40 Siskin - there may have been a few Redpoll with them but they were very mobile (unlike me)



__________________

Tony Koziol


Status: Offline
Posts: 367
Date:
Permalink  

Our first visit to the site on a lovely winters morning, really don't know why we haven't been before as its only fifteen minutes from home !!

All the usuals as listed in previous threads however we did see what looked like a good Tuftie/ Scaup male hybrid, green gloss to head, no crest evident a dark looking back albeit at distance so could have been lighter ( no scope today ?)

It would be interesting if any site regulars had seen this duck previously and had any further points of note or theories please.



__________________
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Highlights of a wander around today were 40+ Siskin, 7 Goosander. 2 Pochard and 4 Bullfinch.

__________________
steven burke


Status: Offline
Posts: 2099
Date:
Permalink  

Afternoon visit.

8 mute Swan
2 pochard, Inc male with wonky wing
10 tufted duck
2 goosander plus 1 on river
12 gadwall
1 Grey heron
6 cormorant
1 chaffinch
7 bullfinch
A very impressive siskin flock 100+ easily but very mobile, when landed in tree tops I couldn't find anything else but 3 goldfinch.
1 Grey wagtail on river
1 great spotted woodpecker
1 Herring gull amongst the many black headed gulls & several common gulls.
1 collared dove in car park
15+ ring necked parakeets
5 redwing


__________________
saburke
PHIL GREENWOOD


Status: Offline
Posts: 1178
Date:
Permalink  

A morning visit produced:

Kingfisher 1
Pochard 1 male with wonky wing at the feeding station on the north bank.
Goldeneye 3 female/immature.
Goosander 1 male, 1 female on the river.
Great Crested Grebe 5
Mute Swan 8
Shoveler 1 male.
Gadwall 3
Grey Heron 1
Cormorant 3
Tufted Duck 10+
Coot 70+. A bit of a guess.
Mallard 40+
Moorhen 6
Siskin 10+ with 10+ Goldfinch.
Nuthatch 1
Song Thrush 1
RN Parakeet 6
Common Gull 2
Herring Gull 2
BH Gull 50+
etc.

__________________
Phil Greenwood
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Male Mandarin present this morning, skulking in the willows around the eastern island.

__________________
Ian Howarth


Status: Offline
Posts: 148
Date:
Permalink  

Lunchtime. In the reeds by the children's play area: 1 x Reed Warbler, 1 x Reed Bunting (M). Several Swift flying over the lake.

__________________
Steven Heywood


Status: Offline
Posts: 458
Date:
Permalink  

Late afternoon stroll in the gloom. The usual pochard had emerged from his usual haunt under the trees so it could be seen that he's not moved on because he's got a very badly damaged right wing.

Thirty-odd swifts feeding low over the river by Chorlton WP. Also a male grey wagtail supervising a youngster.



Attachments
__________________
Ian Keith


Status: Offline
Posts: 205
Date:
Permalink  

Grasshopper Warbler reeling from within the scrub behind the Orchard in Kenworthy Wood at 7am.

__________________
Ian Natural Born Blogger
Samglennie


Status: Offline
Posts: 108
Date:
Permalink  

Morning walk today along mersey and CWP. Highlights inc 40+ chiffchaff, 4 Grey wag, 2x siskin jacksons boat, 2x blackcap and probable Common Whitethroat seen and calling on river next to power station. Probable willow warbler near chorlton golf course

__________________
Andrew Jeffery


Status: Offline
Posts: 194
Date:
Permalink  

Morning walk around the park and along the Mersey, highlights being: Peregrine 1. Goosander (f) 1. Swallow 2 along the river. Bullfinch 1. Greenfinch 2. Grey Wagtail 4. Nuthatch 2



__________________
Chris Sutton


Status: Offline
Posts: 216
Date:
Permalink  

3pm Visit today.

Swallow (1) - stayed for about 10 minutes high over the lake.
Buzzard (1) - soaring higher above the lake.
Nuthatch calling

Chris

__________________
Pete Hines


Status: Offline
Posts: 2299
Date:
Permalink  

Aythya hybrid considered to have some Pochard influence 1 (unprocessed photographs attached)
Pochard 1 drake
Tufted Duck 13
Sand Martin 15+
Blackcap 1 in song
Chiffchaff 3
Siskin heard

Attachments
__________________
Updated birding videos on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteHinesbirding
Tim Wilcox


Status: Offline
Posts: 1031
Date:
Permalink  

The Ring-necked Duck could not be relocated here this afternoon. I also tried Sale WP and Platt Fields Park lake without success.

__________________
Chris Sutton


Status: Offline
Posts: 216
Date:
Permalink  

Quick walk through Barlow Tip thisi afternoon;

Willow Tit - first for me on this site.
2-3 Chiffchaff singing away too.
Greenfinch.

Chris

__________________
Chris Harper


Status: Offline
Posts: 1999
Date:
Permalink  

Quick visit again at lunch.

2 drake Pochard, 2 Goldeneye, 5 Great crested Grebe, 6 Ring Necked Parakeet (very close views on the car park feeders), Nuthatch (feeders), 10 Tufted Duck, 10 Mute Swan



__________________
Chris Harper


Status: Offline
Posts: 1999
Date:
Permalink  

Quick lunch break visit

2 Goldeneye, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Pochard, 10 Mute Swan, 10 Tufted Duck, 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 6 Ring Necked Parakeet, Redwing.



__________________
Tony Coatsworth


Status: Offline
Posts: 937
Date:
Permalink  

Chiffchaff singing on Barlow Tip

Note there were two Police cars patrolling round - presumably using number-plate recognition to find 'out of area' visitors.



__________________

CALLUM VERNON


Status: Offline
Posts: 35
Date:
Permalink  

Mixed flock of Siskins, Lesser Redpoll and Goldfinch. Approx 5 each

1x M Goldeneye 

2x Pochard

1x Jay

4x Great Crested grebe

4x Collard Doves near car park

4x Goosander

Lots of Canada geese, coot, moorhen, black headed gulls, mute swans, mallards, Tufted ducks, robins, blue tits , great tits, long tailed tits, woodpigeon, crows, magpie, house sparrow 

Vocal Nuthatches but didnt See them.

 



__________________
Keith Ogden


Status: Offline
Posts: 12
Date:
Permalink  

Had a walk from Sale WP over to Charlton WP along the River Mersey. Not a good day to don't as it was like Piccadilly Circus with the amount of people knocking about.

This was what was seen along the route and from one side of CWP


X Canada Goose 
7 Mute Swan 
X Tufted Duck -- Over 30
3 Common Goldeneye -- 2M 1F
5 Goosander -- 3 M & 2F
1 Great Crested Grebe 
X Common Moorhen 
X Eurasian Coot 
2 Ring-necked Parakeet 
4 Common Magpie 
1 Carrion Crow 
2 Long-tailed Tit 
2 European Robin 
5 Grey Wagtail -- Along the River Mersey
2 Common Reed Bunting -- Bush next to bridge on River Mersey at CWP

 

Regards

Keith



__________________
Huw Morgan


Status: Offline
Posts: 64
Date:
Permalink  

Flock of approximately 30 Siskin and 5 Lesser Redpoll feeding in alders next to the main track through Barlow Tip.
Goldeneye x3 (2m, 1f)
Pochard x 2 (2m)
Goosander x4 (4f)
Cormorant x1
Great Crested Grebe x2
Tufted Duck x17
Buzzard x1

__________________
Natalie Clarke


Status: Offline
Posts: 74
Date:
Permalink  

A really enjoyable turn around the water park this morning from half 8. Incredibly cold but had some great spots...my faves;

1 x redwing

1 x song thrush 

Gadwall

1x jay

A family of long-tailed tit

1 x treecreeper which was my first of 2021 and he was really impressive and gave me an excellent view

1 x ring-necked parakeet

1 x pochard (possibly the injured one, you saw James? His wing looked at little out of place)

1 x great crested grebe - another impressive specimen 

1 x grey heron

3 x raven just hanging out, picking up blocks of ice and mithering passers-by...which was highly amusing!



__________________
James Walsh


Status: Offline
Posts: 2134
Date:
Permalink  

Drake Pochard - injured right wing
5 Goldeneye
15 Gadwall
5 Goosander
40 Tufted Duck
5 Great Crested Grebe

__________________

Mancunian Birder https://mancunianbirder.wordpress.com Visit my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtWoAs4geYL9An0l6w_XgIg
Page 1  >   Last »  sorted by
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.
BACK TO THE MANCHESTER BIRDING WEBSITE HOMEPAGE -> Manchester Birding Forum -> GREATER MANCHESTER BIRD SIGHTINGS -> CHORLTON WP

RODIS

 

This forum is dedicated to the memory of Eva Janice McKerchar.