On the walk from the tram stop at Sale WP: buzzard and cormorant at Jackson's Boat, grey wagtail further along the river and a lesser redpoll on Barlow Tip.
This was ringed as a moulting adult female on 25/6/2016 at Ambleside, Windermere.
Many thanks for the sighting
Steve
Just had an e-mail from the ringers to confirm this information, but also of interest, this is the first of the birds they've ringedat Windermere to be seen in Greater Manchester (this individual had previously been seen in Nosterfield, North Yorkshire).
It's also my own first record of this species for CWP, too.
Fem/imm Red-breasted Merganser showing well adjacent to the island on the east side of Chorlton Water Park from 4:30pm-5pm when it flew west also 14 Pochard (12 drakes 2 females)
Balls. Day off today for a wild merganser hunt; here in the morning, when there was no sign, left to have a look on Sale Water Park (via Barlow Tip, etc), where it also wasn't, then a quick scurry back up here before light failed, which would have been just after five; I must have missed it by minutes. I bet it flew back to Sale, too. Probably laughing.
Anyway. Here from about 9.30 - 11.30; much of the lake frozen, which made counting easier than it normally is here:
1 nuthatch heard 5+ house sparrow 2 siskin 2 greenfinch 2 bullfinch 1 grey wagtail 2 song thrush 4 moorhen 28 coot 7 gadwall 18 tufted duck 11 or 12 pochard (1 female, with another probable female tucked away amongst vegetation, too obscured to confirm) 12 mute swan 4 or 5 great crested grebe 216 black-headed gull 9 common gull 4 lesser black-backed gull 2 herring gull
Fem/imm Red-breasted Merganser showing well adjacent to the island on the east side of Chorlton Water Park from 4:30pm-5pm when it flew west also 14 Pochard (12 drakes 2 females)
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the Greylag Goose with a neck band sounds interesting, pleased try robert.swann@homecall.co.uk for information as it sounds possibly like one of theirs?
Cheers,
Ian
Hi Ian,
I reported it to the BTO's ring-recovery page, so hopefully it should get through to him via that.
the Greylag Goose with a neck band sounds interesting, pleased try robert.swann@homecall.co.uk for information as it sounds possibly like one of theirs?
Hour here before dark today. No red-breasted merganser for me, but here's what I did note:
1-2 or more grey wagtail, plenty of activity around the little reed bed, where I've sen them congregate before, but never more than one at a time. 8 moorhen 33+ coot 17 gadwall 18+ tufted duck 12 pochard (one female) 2 goosander 1 greylag goose (with a red / dark orange neck-ring, SCZ) 10 mute swan 4 great crested grebe
Same as Pete Hines post, plus a couple of Siskin in a mixed flock of Tits feeding on the Alders at Barlow Tip and a Kestrel on the boundary with the golf course. No Merganser . Nice to see Steve Almond.
A quick lap of the lake with David Morris from around 12-13.00 today
We had the same stuff as Joel on the water, where a fair bit of ice was keeping the waterfowl from the northern shoreline. No small finches or similar seen but the highlight for me at least was a Woodcock whooshing by overhead, heading for Barlow Tip. Presumably it had been rudely disturbed by one of the seven million or so dogs being walked by the good burghers of Chorlton...
2:15pm - 3:00pm. A short scroll around the lake, very busy with people so not many birds seen other than what was on the lake. 6 pochards (all males) a pair or goldeneye 17 tufted ducks 2 cormorant 4 great crested grebes ~100 black-headed gulls ~15 common gulls 3 lesser black-backed gulls what looked like a dead gull on the ice around the reed bed
Mute Swan (10, 2 ad, 8 1w) Gadwall (2, 1m) Pochard (2m) Tufted Duck (c8m) Cormorant (4) GC Grebe (2) Herring Gull (2 ad) west over. Lesser Black-backed Gull (5 ad) four west and one south over. Stock Dove (3) west over the water park. Grey Wagtail (1)
-- Edited by Liam_Langley on Thursday 21st of December 2017 05:07:37 PM
Pochard 2 ( 1 male & 1 female) Kingfisher 2 Siskin 10+ (possibly more in the area) Lesser Redpoll 2+ (possibly more in the area) Herring Gull 1 Lesser Black-backed gull 2
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Here for an hour late afternoon, as dark descended; nothing like the number of species found as post below, but counts were:
1 goldcrest 4+ grey wagtail (making a tremendous racket from the reed bed end, great to hear) 3 moorhen 61+ coot 13+ tufted duck 16+ gadwall 3 great crested grebe 10 mute swan 60+ black-headed gull, mainly over or departing 4 cormorant
Hobby circling high above the water park/River Mersey. In association with Black-headed Gulls but often above them. It looked as if they were all feeding on flying insects.
Quick visit this afternoon 13.47 - 15.20 with the following highlights:
COMMON SANDPIPER (1) flushed from the north shore at 14.03 and circled the lake calling although I didn't see where it went to. Only my third CWP record! Mute Swan (1) Tufted Duck (5, 3m) Buzzard (1) Swift (c15) House Martin (2+) Sand Martin (2+) Swallow Reed Warbler (1m) singing in the reed bed at the east end. Whitethroat (2m) Willow Warbler (1m)
-- Edited by Liam_Langley on Monday 8th of May 2017 05:54:57 PM
Nice wander round this afternoon 13.42 - 14.56 with the following highlights:
LESSER WHITETHROAT (1m) singing along the river adjacent to Barlow Tip - a patch tick for me! Whitethroat (2+ m) Willow Warbler (2m) Swift (8+) my first of the year over Barlow Tip House Martin (2) over Barlow Tip Swallow Great Crested Grebe (3ad)
2 chiffchaff 2 blackcap 1 nuthatch 3 goldfinch 1 chaffinch (with no lower legs; was able to shuffle along the branch with what he had left whilst belting out his song) 4+ house sparrow 1 swallow 1 jay 1 moorhen 23 coot, a few carrying nesting material around 13 tufted duck Mallard & Canada geese 8 mute swan 1 great crested grebe 1 black-headed gull
Kenworthy Woods:
1 goldcrest 4 chiffchaff 7 blackcap 1 whitethroat 1 greenfinch 1 song thrush 1 stock dove over 1 buzzard