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Steve Scrimgeour


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Late post for Friday 25/3/16.

A quick mooch for me and Josh in the search of Wheatears, none yet I may add.

Field 4 many Skylarks, as did fields 2 and 1.
Meadow Pipits (15) in Field 10
Old Orchard had Reed Bunting, Linnet & Bullfinch.
Field 4 on way back to car 20 plus Fieldfare.
1 Yellowhammer in normal bushes top of Field 4.
2 possibly 4 Willow Tits on path from Old Orchard to crossroads of fields 2.4 & 11. Definitely 2 in trees which we then lost to sight, but when watching the Yellowhammer, 2 more flew in from over field 11.
15 Buzzards on the Thermals over field 4 which was a fantastic sight as the males were bombing each other and came after a bizarre comment from a dog walker, whom had not seen a single buzzard all winter...(suggest you look up then).




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Approx 300 Fieldfare in newly ploughed field 67 adjacent to Dark Lane this morning.

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Sinderland Green area. Three White Wagtails (plus 2 Pied Wagtails) in recently ploughed field 72 this morning.



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Basell site Saturday.

Large mixed flock of Fieldfare and Redwing. Approx 50 in total.

Several Oystercatcher, Approx 20 Lapwings , 2 Buzzards being mobbed by Crows. 1 flew into the inside of a redundant plant so I will keep an eye to see if has a roost in there

amongst the pipework.

17:00 Large Sparrowhawk (female?) took a feral pigeon. A real struggle ensued as the Pigeon did not give in lightly and flew away a couple of times before being finally subdued.



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Jeff Clarke


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Chiffchaff singing in Sinderland Woods this morning (my first this year).

Little else of note apart from a major conflict between two Goldcrests (presumed males) with a third (female?) following them.



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17.15 - Field 16
1 Grey Partridge
c.40 Fieldfare

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8.10am - Pair of Grey Partridge in f22 this morning.

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Sinderland Green area; late visit 15:30 to 18:00.

Yellowhammer: 57 in field 70 with 5 Reed Buntings. Otherwise finches only present in small numbers.

Kingfisher on Sinderland Brook.

Nothing else unusual but I did manage to record 22 species after sunset (16:54) which I thought was quite good.



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Sinderland Green area.

A short visit today 3pm to 5pm in spite of the weather as the forecast for tomorrow is even worse with rain all day. With the high winds and occasional hail/snow/rain I spent most of the time trying to find areas sheltered from the wind in the hope that the birds would do the same! In the end I spent about an hour in field 70. The strong wind was always a problem but the visit was not as bad as I expected with:

Peregrine over field 67 and female sparrowhawk over field 70, and surprisingly (considering the weather) Buzzards were seen many times.

Massive numbers (for here) of Yellowhammers in field 70, with at least 40 actually counted but I believe that the total may well have been over 80. They were very difficult to count in the high winds. Also at least 6 Reed Buntings which is quite good for here.

Finches were difficult to see apart from about 40 Linnets and a handful of Chaffinches and single Siskin and Bullfinch all in field 70.

Two Moorhens on Sinderland Brook (which are quite scarce here) which brings my year total here to 61 (the same as in 2105).

I also had fabulous close views of Long tailed Tits and Goldcrests, and I even heard Treecreeper singing!

One advantage of the appalling weather was that I could get close to birds without them noticing me and they could not hear me coming because of the incessant wind. Conversely there were many birds flying over that I could not identify by call because of the wind. I normally would have expected Skylark and Meadow Pipit and they may well have flown over but I did not pick them up.



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A long trudge over the moss from the bus layby at the end of Whitehouse Lane, towards the flare, past the MUFC training ground approach road and down to Brookheyes Farm. then back along the same route.  I got back to the car just as the snow fall became heavy.

Teal Pheasant Buzzard Black-headed Gull Woodpigeon Kestrel Magpie Jackdaw Carrion Crow Blue Tit Great Tit Skylark Long-tailed Tit Treecreeper Wren Blackbird Fieldfare Song Thrush Redwing Mistle Thrush Robin Chaffinch Greenfinch Goldfinch Yellowhammer Reed Bunting

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Brambling 6+...NW corner of F5.
Chaffinch 50+...ditto.
Yellowhammer 6+...ditto.

Fieldfare 100+...over SE corner F5.
Redwing 1 only.
Missel Thrush 1
Jay 3
Rook/Jackdaw 300+
Wood/Feral Pigeon/Stock Dove 100+
Goldcrest 1
Skylark 3
Gold/Greenfinches.


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Sinderland Green area this morning 9am to 12.

Finch numbers are way down from before Christmas with only about 60 linnets today (compared with 400 on 23rd Dec) but 32 Yellowhammers in field 26 was my highest count in almost 2 years.

Merlin (female type plumage and size) chasing Skylark in field 26 (for its second day), Peregrine over field 11, and 2 ravens over field 26.

Also 4 Goosanders on Sinderland Brook (only one seen yesterday).



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Brambling in with Chaffinches in hedge bordering F4 and the Shell Ponds (i.e. 50 yards along the sign-posted path from the security barrier towards the Old Orchard area).
Yellowhammer showing well between F4 and F12/13.
Large mixed flock of finches in F9 - predominantly Linnet.
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Walk around field f4 between 10-30 and 12 this morning.

Large finch flock of around 150 Chaffinch and approximately 50 Brambling along MUFC access road between f4 and f5.

Good numbers of Reed bunting and Yellow hammer with a mixed flock of up to 40 in hedges around old orchard edge of f2.

75 fieldfare between f2 and f11/12.

Covey of 15 Grey Partridge in f2.

Large mixed flock of Wood Pigeon with some Feral Pigeon between f2 and f4.

Other birds Great tit, Blue Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Wren, Robin, Dunnock,Goldfinch,Jackdaw,Carrion Crow.

Good to meet Tony Darby.

 



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At 12.45 pm at northern edge (and in northern hedge) of field 5 was a flock of finches some 350/400 strong.  Probably 95% Chaffinch with 15/20 Brambling. Also Robin, Blue Tit, Jay and Yellowhammer, one of each.

 

Elsewhere on site were Rooks, Crows, Jackdaws, Magpies, Wood Pigeons, Starlings and Black-headed Gulls.  Possibly one Redwing seen at some distance.

 

 

 

 



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I spent two hours in search of Bramblings this morning, without success; however, it was pleasantly mild and dry and there was plenty to look at (about 30 species in all).

Highlight was a very noisy Willow Tit not far from the building works, at the junction of the path that leads into Dainewell Woods.  There were at least a dozen Yellowhammers in  the hedges, a rare treat for me these days, c25 Skylarks and four Fieldfare.  The only finches I saw were two Chaffinches and a dozen or so Goldfinch.  There were four Gadwall and a drake Shoveler on the pond opposite Altrincham ETW. 

 



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Originally posted today by Sharon Lewis:

Saw a large flock of bramblings this afternoon at Dainewell Woods, Carrington

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There was a mixed flock of about 30 Chaffinches and Bramblings (about 50/50) plus 4 x Yellowhammers about 11.30am today, moving to and from from in the trees that border the MUFC site adjacent to field 5.



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I saw this flock around fields 65/67 last week. There are odd Tree Sparrows mixed in with it too



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Field 71 late morning (near Sinderland Green). Finches and buntings in abundance in field 71 where the margins have been planted with wild bird seed mixture. There were so many birds that they proved difficult to count especially as two female sparrowhawks were repeatedly flushing the birds.

Chaffinch: 40+; Brambling: one female; Greenfinch:  60+; Goldfinch: 2; Linnet: 150+ (there were 180 here last Saturday; Redpoll: 5; Siskin: 4 (probably more); Bullfinch: 2; Yellowhammer: 4; Reed Bunting: one.

Also of note was a Tree Sparrow at the rear of Townsend Farm, this is the first here for some weeks.

Additional note: a local dog-walker informed me that there had been two egrets on Sinderland Brook near to Brookheys Farm about five days ago but not since. I do not normally take much notice of what dog-walkers tell me but this individual is quite knowledgeable and was the one who told me of two egrets here in the last week of March. This was later confirmed by Nick Hilton who found one here on April 2, and I found two on April 4, with a single the following day. Brian Benson had reported one near the flare on March 15 so it is possible that at least one had stayed for some weeks.



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Sunday 8/11/15.

Couple of visits, as first one was curtailed by the appalling conditions.

0800-0900 only bird of note was a Kestrel sat on fence of Utd training ground on cross roads.

1330-1630hrs was more productive and a definitely drier..

The path that was Amazonian on last visit, which runs parallel to Shell, is now approx. 20ft across, as all vegetation has been cleared and the ditch has been widened also, if following this path be careful as the ditch now continues towards the flare and you can only jump across at various points....

Birds of note: 32 Pink Footed Geese in Field 5 along with 80 Canada Geese, normally see 1 or 2 Canadian and have never seen a grounded flock of Pink Feet here personally. Peregrine in field 5 was of much interest ( Ian sent you a pm on this )

Fieldfares were on the berry bushes at the top end of field 4 and another 1 in field 1.  60 Skylarks possibly more were flushed by a dog walker in field 4 at 1530hrs obviously this is now a favoured route rather than the actual footpath.

And as I was heading back to the car field 4 again 25 Carrion Crows making a right racket.

Huge numbers of Jackdaws in the trees behind the stables at the security barrier and also big numbers of Wood pigeon across the whole of the moss in general

 



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Jeff,

These have been around for a while, noticed them when driving home from work, prior to the clocks changing...

 

 



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Sinderland Green Woods - one Mandarin (female or immature) with large group of Mallards on Sinderland Brook. Also seen on Tuesday 27th Oct.



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Double spacing - did this with me a couple of weeks ago. I tend to post using my i phone and I think when I made the screen bigger in the usual way, I accidentally touched the spacing icon above the posting bit. I struggled to rectify it on the day but found that the following day it had sorted itself out. I am far from being an expert on these things but hopefully that will help!



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A little walk from Isherwood Road to f24/25.

 

Skylark                                    25+

Chaffinch                               100+

Brambling                                 2

Meadow Pipit                            5+

Redwing                                 30+

Fieldfare                                   1

Missel Thrush                           2

Yellowhammer                       10+

Goldfinch                                10+

Siskin                                      3

Goldcrest                                 1

Willow Tit                                1

Lesser Redpoll                         1

Greenfinch                              5+

Starling                                 10+

Jay                                         1

Kestrel                                   1m

Buzzard                                  1

etc.

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What a differance a day makes? This afternoon there was no sign of the large Chaffinch and Brambling flock, only small numbers of local Chaffinches. Raven over f25 and a dozen or so Redwing over were the only birds of note.

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Pm by bike from home Update on Jeff's post:

Brambling 11 in f25 (I thought I'd found these till I saw Jeff's post when I got back home!) with 3 males in near breeding plumage
Chaffinch 165 f25
Redwing 100 f25 briefly
Goldcrest 1 in Hawthron with Blue Tits 4, Great tits 2, Long-tailed tits 4
Buzzard 4 various fields
Pink-footed Geese skeins of 37 E at 2.27pm and 357 E at 3.07pm


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Sinderland Green area 9am to 11am.

Peregrine: One on pylon in field 11, has been present almost daily since 30th Sep using various pylons from fields 5 and 8 to Sinderland Lane / Altrincham Crematorium.
Redwing: Small numbers passing over all morning, largest group was of about 15.
Fieldfare: 2 over field 25, 1 over Dark Lane at least an hour later.
The Chaffinch flock in field 25 has varied from 40 to 100 over the last week.
Brambling: one male in with Chaffinch flock in field 25 (two males yesterday in same location).
Pink footed geese: Six skeins totalling at least 470 birds (all heading approximately east). At one point a skein of 70 crossed the path of another of 120, and about 20 birds left the smaller skein for the larger.
Also a late record for October 12th: One Golden Plover over field 67 at about 9 am.


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Stonechat 1m and 1f as mentioned previously.
Hobby 1 juv. over field 70.
Buzzard 2
Kestrel 1m
Treecreeper 1 in orchard.
Yellowhammer 3
Meadow Pipit 2
Skylark 1
Swallow 1
House Martin 2 with the Swallow, going South like the clappers.
Pied Wagtail 2
etc.etc.etc.

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2 Stonechat in the hedge between fields 12 and 13 at 1pm today.

Info thanks to Tony O'Mahony

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Hobby : 1 over F70 this pm


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Covey of 6 Grey Partridge f25 11am

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Sinderland Green area:
2 Hobbies over Sinderland Green Woods (also fields 68 and 69) at 1030 this morning.

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Sinderland Green area 8-10 am.
Little Grebe still on the Brook at Sinderland Green Woods.
3 Hobby over field 25/field 70
Field 24: 2 Buzzard; 2 Sparrowhawk; 2 Kestrel; 3 Raven.
There are still Chiffchaffs singing but only Blackcap this morning.

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8.10am
Chiffchaff singing in tree opposite MUFC entrance.

6.15pm
Female Sparrowhawk sat on fence along Isherwood Rd.

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Skylark 1
Meadow Pipit 2
Kestrel 1f
Sparrowhawk 1 juv. male, I think.
House Martin 2
Swallow 6
Buzzard 1
Collared Dove 1
Woodpigeon 200+

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Afternoon visit to Sinderland Green area:
As expected for an afternoon visit most birds very quiet and difficult to find:
Highlights:
One Hobby over field 25 (I note that my latest record for last year was 23rd Sep)
Little Grebe on Sinderland Brook (unexpected as my previous two records here were in mid-winter).
Plenty of House Martins but most Swallows have left. A local farmer told me that he can now again park his car in the barn without it being splattered!


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Late afternoon visit with Steve Burke and Simon Gough.

Sinderland Green area.
- 2 juvenile Hobbies
Distant but good scope views of the 2 birds on a telegraph pole out beyond the harvested field (67?)
We got round to near the farm and cottage where we had better views of mainly 1 of them, the other 1 wasn't as showy.

Other birds of note...
- plenty of Woodpigeon
- 1 Stock Dove
- 1 Linnet
- plenty of Swallow

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Sunderland green area.
Very grateful to the young Hobbies calling for food this morning around 11 am over field 68.
4 hobbies in the air and fortunate to twice witness mid air food exchanges looking likely to be hirundine of some sort.
Also saw 7 Buzzards in the air at the same time. Kestrel and Sparrowhawk were also seen.
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Sinderland Green area this morning:
Hobby: only one field 65
Quail: One singing 07:30 field 26, but not heard two hours later when potato crop in f25 was being harvested (lots af tractors etc.)
Raven: 2 over field 25.
Willow Tit: 2 at NE corner field 25 and 2 more at NW corner of same field.

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afternoon visit.

2 hobbys f63/64
3 buzzards, 1 in f11
1 kestrel, f12
1 sparrowhawk, f61
4 grey partridge, 2 in f10, 2 in f63
2 nuthatch, brookheys covert
1 willow warbler, singing f27
2 jay, f64
2 whitethroat, 1 blackcap, 1 chiffchaff, f4


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Sinderland Green area. Late post from this morning.
Hobby at least two over field 68.
Peregrine: one on pylon at east side of field 11 although distant and the pylon is probably in field 12.
Tree Pipit: one over field 25.
Kingfisher: One on brook through Sinderland Woods.


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This morning 3 Hobbies (possibly 4) including one juvenile in Sinderland Woods area. The most reliable area seems to be the trees in the hedge between field 67 and 68.

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3 Hobbys currently around Sinderland Green Wood and fields to the south at 4.30pm. Frequent calling from 2 birds poss juvs
Buzzard 1
Goldfinch 150 mostly juv f24/f25

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Wednesday pm.

No Hobbys but...

Buzzard 6
Kestrel 2
House Martin 20+
Swallow 2
Goldfinch 50+

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Sinderland Green area 6:30 to 9:30 this morning.

HOBBY: at least 5 very active and vocal around fields 67, 68 and 70. There seems to be two groups. One has 2 adults and 1 juvenile which have been around here for three weeks or so, and the other of two birds (one adult, the other too distant to tell).
TREE PIPIT: one heard flying over field 25.
WILLOW TIT: two at junction of field 24, 25, 26. These have been here for some days and with patience give great views.


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Quick mooch Isherwood Rd - ETW and back.

Very quite on the bird front although huge numbers of Woodpigeon in 4, 12, 13, 5.
2 very vocal Jays just beyond Swiss Farm at corner of Utd training ground.
Several vocal Buzzards about as well with in Utd training complex.
Only 1 Yellowhammer in 5.

If anyone thinking of a wander be careful as footpath between Shell and field 4 is extremely overgrown..



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Sinderland Green area this morning.
Hobby - 2 adults very vocal over field 67, one of these had a short conflict with a Sparrowhawk!
Yellow Wagtail - 3 in field 65, 2 in field 25.

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Sinderland Green area morning visit today 7am to 9.30.

Initially very quiet but eventually a few interesting birds appeared. This looks like post-breeding dispersal has really started now so almost anything could turn up.
Hobby: 2 hawking over fields 64,65,68; the first here in over four weeks.
Yellow Wagtail field 24/25; seen on every visit here since 2nd July.
Raven: 2 soaring over Sinderland Green; the first here since May
Siskin: 3 around bridge over railway line (where fields 10,11,25,27 intersect). These have been present since 18th July.
Also a couple of days ago 1 saw my first Sparrowhawk here since April.


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B Benson wrote:

There are breeding Kestrels in the area. On the Basell site we have had a nest with 4 young which have only recently fledged. You sometimes see them more or less in a row on the fence behind the flare .


Breeding Kestrels is a good record Brian. Earlier in Spring I saw Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher and Lapwing
on the Basell site, viewed through the fence; all potential breeders there.
It's important that we formally submit these kind of records since the Basell site and a huge part of Carrington Moss are under threat
of development since Shell sold the Carrington Estate to Langtree (developers).
Langtree didn't buy this land because they enjoy the wildlife, they bought it to build a New Town, so keep your records coming in.

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 1st of August 2015 08:48:11 PM

-- Edited by Tony Darby on Sunday 2nd of August 2015 03:13:18 PM

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