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Hobby at 9pm on Coal Pit Lane

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The moors this morning included 3 Wheatear in the pony field along Mast Road, 12 Willow Warbler in the bracken along Burnt Edge with a male Stonechat here and along Georges Lane.

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A few sightings from this morning:

1 Crossbill and 2 Siskin at Gale Brook Plantation
1 juvenile Wheatear on Horwich Moor

Info thanks to Andy Makin

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Saturday, 4th June 2016. 12:00 - 16:00 hrs.

Layby off Matchmoor Lane - Burnt Edge - Holdens Farm - Gilligants Farm - Colliers Row - Walker Fold Wood - return via Burnt Edge

Linnet x 3
Yellowhammer x 1
Curlew x 2
Skylark x 3
Meadow Pipit x 7
Reed Bunting x 1
Willow Warbler x 5
Lapwing x 4
Mistle Thrush x 2
Pied Wagtail x 2
Swallow x 10
Swift x 2
Goldfinch x 10
Great Tit x 1
Blue Tit x 2
Chaffinch x 3
Carrion Crow x 10
Magpie x 5
Woodpigeon x 7
Pheasant x 3 (all male)
Canada Geese x 2
Black-Headed Gull x 8


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3 Spoonbill (1 adult and 2 immatures) at 8:45pm heading SW at height over Fleet Moor; lost to view heading towards Haigh.

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Grasshopper Warbler,Willow Warbler,Chiffchaff,Whitethroat,Reed Bunting,Kestrel,Raven,Buzzard and Blackcap all seen and heard on Bike ride around Horwich Moors today.

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Hi,Holdens Farm. Just had a pleasant half hour listening to the cuckoo, watching swallows and very interestingly watching a dunnock.

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Saturday, 14th May 2016. 12:30 - 16:00 hrs. Sunny with little nip in air. Quiet birdwise with perfect walking conditions.

Matchmoor Lane layby - Burnt Edge - Holdens Farm - Gilligants Farm - Winter Hill - Mast Road - back via Holdens Plantation

Curlew x 6
Raven x 2
Skylark x 5
Meadow Pipit x 3
Reed Bunting x 2
Willow Warbler x 1
Whitethroat x 2
Swallow x 10
Swift x 2 (seen on drive up near Beaumont Lane)
Great Tit x 1
Chaffinch x 3
Carrion Crow x 10
Magpie x 3
Woodpigeon x 7
Pheasant x 3 (all male)
Black-Headed Gull x 8


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Male Cuckoo singing at Adams Hill Plantation at 6:25pm.

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2 Golden Plover 1 Whitethroat 40+ Skylark 20+ Meadow Pipit Circa 3 Grasshopper Warbler (heard) 3 Buzzard 2 Kestrel 1 Wren 1 Raven 1 Common Gull 20+ Blackheaded Gull 5 Willow Warbler 2 Robin 5 Goldfinch 5 Wheatear 2 Bluetit 3 Great tit 1 Coal tit 1 Curlew 2 Carrion Crow 5 Lapwing 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Pief Wagtail 2 Magpie 3 Woodpigeon

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Cuckoo (m) opposite Giligants Farm

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Had a few hours this morning but it was really quiet. 06:00 - 09:00 Top end of Smithills near Adam Hill, Georges Lane and Matchmoor Lane. No Wheatears and hardly any sign of movement. A few Redpolls seemed to be the only things moving. 3 Willow Warblers were singing along Georges Lane, and a Pied Wagtail along Matchmoor Lane were sadly the most interesting things I saw in three hours of the quietest birding I've had up here.


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1200-1400 2 Coal tit 2 Great tit 1 Goldcrest 1 Curlew 20 Meadow Pipit 1 Carrion Crow 2 Song Thrush 2 Jackdaw 2 Robin 2 Blackbird 2 Willow Warbler Still no sign of the elusive Ring Ouzel after many visits looking for it!

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Male Ring Ouzel still present at Gilligant's Farm at 8:15pm with 4 Wheatear (1m, 3f).

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Male Ring Ouzel showing well from 9-10am at least at Gilligants Farm this morning.

Also 2 Wheatear.

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Cracking weather this am from 07.30 - 12.00 George's Lane up towards Two Lads then over into Holden's area, Walker Fold woods, and back up and over between the quarries.

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Wheatear 13 in field north of Coal Pit Lane, 4 more at George's Lane
1 female Whinchat near the big group of Wheatear
Willow Warbler - numerous in all areas except obviously the high moors
Curlew - 2 feeding in horse paddock near Holden's, 2 others heard
Mistle Thrush 2 in horse paddocks
Coal Tit - 2 in Larches George's La, 2 Coal Pit Lane, more heard in Roscoe's Tenement Clough
Lapwing 1
Common Buzzard 2
Peregrine 2
Raven 2
Kestrel 1

Fairly numerous Meadow Pipits on the higher areas
Swallows - 1 over George's Lane, 2 on the roof of Holden's Barn and 2 more lower down. Skylark 3 heard

-- Edited by Paul Richardson on Saturday 23rd of April 2016 05:44:55 PM

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09.30-13.30

Georges Lane

2 Wheatears, 1m Stonechat, 7 Lesser Redpoll, 1 Linnet, 1 Buzzard, 1m Kestrel and 2 Lapwings. Cuckoo heard by the plantation on the Lancs border.

Burnt Edge

1m Kestrel, 3 Curlew and 1 Buzzard. Willow Warbler singing in the conifer plantation.

Sugar Loaf Plantation

3 Willow Warblers singing. 1 Grey Wagtail by the stream.

Holdens Farm

3 Swallows. The only birds in the horse paddocks were a pair of Meadow Pipits.

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This morning 5 singing Grasshopper Warblers along Coal Pit Road.

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Today, Wheatears as follows; 4 Fleet Moor, 3 Walker Fold, 4 Mast Road and 2 Holden's Farm.

-- Edited by Simon Warford on Sunday 17th of April 2016 05:39:00 PM

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Four Ring Ouzels (two adult males) this morning at Georges Lane/Higher Meadows, two of which flew towards the Hawthorns at the bottom of the Pike in Lancashire.

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Very little to add to the reports for today on the moors.

Male Stonechat along Burnt Edge, 2 Willow Warblers along Coal Pit Lane.

No Hirundines apart from the mentioned Swallows at Holdens and no Raptors apart from one Common Buzzard coming off the moors (us not the bird) along Coal Pit Lane and very low numbers of Meadow Pipits and Skylarks.

 

Walk Coal Pit Lane, Holdens, Burnt Edge, George's Lane, back via path up near Three Lads and Holden Plantation, 9.00 - 12.30



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Nice to meet you too Steve, I'm just glad that the Ring Ouzel was still around when you got there. Whilst I was there it flew into the willows behind the barn with most of the Fieldfares.

It had not re-emerged when I left.

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Saturday, 9th April 2016. 12:15 - 16:00 hrs.

Walk from road off Matchmoor Lane - along Burnt Edge - Holdens Farm - Gilligants Farm - Winter Hill mast and return via Mast Road and Burnt Edge.

Nice to meet you John (must have been you!) - and thanks for tip off about male Ring Ouzel.

Ring Ouzel (M) x 1 (in field to left of Holdens Farm)
Fieldfare x 5
Raven x 1
Swallow x 1
Curlew x 3
Pied Wagtail x 1
Meadow Pipit x 15
Skylark x 4
Long Tailed Tit x 3
Red Grouse x 1
Blue Tit x 5
Great Tit x 3
Chaffinch x 3
Pheasant x 1
Carrion Crow x 8
Magpie x 4
Woodpigeon x 1
Lapwing x 1

-- Edited by Steve Judge on Saturday 9th of April 2016 04:52:26 PM

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08.15-14.00

Georges Lane

2 Willow Warblers, 1 Swallow

Burnt Edge

1f Kestrel, 2Curlew

Adam's Hill

3 Skylarks

Walker Fold

2 Buzzards

Holdens Farm

1m Ring Ouzel on the pasture alongside the barn with 14 Fieldfares, 2 Redwings, 1 Wheatear and a pair of Pied Wagtails.

2 Swallows flying around the farm.



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9:50 Ring Ouzel (m) at Big Hedge. Flew off into Lancs at 10:30. Didn't manage to relocate it.

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17:30 - 19:00 Fleet Moor 1 Wheatear Edge Lane 6 Wheatear Gilligant's Farm 15 Wheatear Coal Pit Lane 2 Curlew 2 Snipe 1 Stonechat

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10.00-15.00 

Rained most of the time, with patchy visibility, although it brightened up as I was leaving.

No sign of Wheatears or any Stonechats throughout.

Georges Lane

3 Bullfinches and 1 Lapwing, otherwise just crows and a few Black Headed Gulls.

Burnt Edge

Lots of Meadow Pipits, showing well, allowing close approach and displaying, but no other passerines

Holdens Farm

3 Ravens and a flock of 19 Fieldfares.



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A female Marsh Harrier flew NE over Smithills Moor today.

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17:30 - 19:15 George's Lane 2 Stonechat (1m, 1f) Edge Lane 4 Wheatear (3m , 1f) Coal Pit Lane 1 Stonechat (m)

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Highlights of 8am until midday today; Andy Makin present 7-9am but low cloud didn't really clear until 8am:

A tight flock of 11 Twite flew low north across the moor at around 09:40.

2837 Meadow Pipit (including 472 which Andy Makin had from Georges Lane 8-9am, the rest were spread on a broad front from Two Lads Hill to Deans Ditch 8-11:30) heading low north across the moors; a fantastic sight.

11 Wheatear, included 3 Andy Makin had moving quickly through near Georges Lane pre-9am (one male of which landed on his scope!) and I had 8 in less than five minutes just after 9am which moved briskly through Two Lads Hill, consisting of four males and four females ('phonescoped male attached).

3 Greylag Geese headed over SE (Andy had one from Georges early on and I had two from Two Lads Hill mid morning).

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There was a carnival taking place beyond the kennels on Georges Lane, so there were few birds about, and certainly no Wheatears.

Wilderswood/ Georges Lane : 1 singing Skylark, 1 Lapwing and 1 Kestrel.

Burnt Edge

Meadow Pipit displaying was in full swing throughout the moor, with 6 birds parachuting along Burnt Edge alone.

Whilst flying over were 1 Grey Heron, 2 Curlews and 4 Ravens. A Buzzard patrolled high above Walker Fold.

2 Goldcrests were in Sugarloaf Plantation, A male Reed Bunting appeared to be on territory by Holdens Plantation.

1m+1f Stonechats by the kissing gate where the path from Holdens reaches Mast Road.

 



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Heard a red grouse , flushed a woodcock on top of winter hill , 2 heron hunting frogs in a small pool next to mast road , 4 crossbill flew from wilderswood area towards the pike .



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Pleasant day around Holdens Farm, 2 pair of lapwings behind farm, single snipe on moor field behind farm and the nicest sight a pair of English partridges in front of the farm.

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3 Crossbill in Wilderswood late afternoon near the clearing.

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A single Golden Plover singing on the moor north of the mast just over in Lancs this afternoon.

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From Georges Lane, 07:30 to 09:15 today:

Single Crossbill N
15 Skylark NNE

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A brief spell 9-11am from Georges Lane this morning included:

15 Whooper Swan NW over HorwicH
9 Siskin N
20 Skylark NE including a group of 13

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Amongst visible migration totals from Georges Lane this morning were 32 Chaffinch, 17 Siskin and 3 Crossbill NW over plus another 6 Crossbills (including 5 males) briefly down in trees just on the Lancashire side of the road.

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Cooold up on t'moors this morning! Probably not surprisingly - fairly quiet.

3 Mistle thrush over Walker Fold Woods and 2 more singing high in the trees.

50 Redwing flew over from Walker Fold towards Holdens and were then seen perched along the overhead wires until a single Kestrel swooped across and sent them all up and off to the north.

Fair few Great Tit and Blue Tit around the trees, 2 Coal Tit right on the edge of the woods in the larches and pines but little else seen. Looked hard for Dipper from Barrow Bridge up along the brook, but saw none. Extremely muddy there!



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I have been sent details of a survey on future usage of Smithills Estate conducted by the Woodland Trust who have recently taken over administration of part of Horwich Moors. Regular visitors may be interested in taking the survey:

https://form.jotformeu.com/60034074384349



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Near Two Lads  - this afternoon, only three birds seen Carrion Crow, Red Grouse and Barn Owl (15.30)



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Morning on moors:

7 Whooper Swan W at 9:30
6 Pink-footed Geese SE at 9:20
3 Siskin N
67 Fieldfare ENE in 6 flocks

Info thanks to Andy Makin and Dan Brown

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Yesterday (31.12.15) 10.00-13.30

Burnt Edge

1 Kestrel, 1 Goldcrest (with a couple of Robins on the conifers), 82 Fieldfares mixed with lesser numbers of Starlings moving South.

Walker Fold Wood

A charm of 12 Goldfinches, a single Blue Tit, and all gathered together on a small hawthorn bush 5 Magpies.

 Coal Pit Lane

24 Fieldfares, again mixed with Starlings, on an adjoining pasture, but very nervous and often flushing and settling on overhead wires.

 



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10:00-12:30 today Walker Fold to mast road and back above the quarry. 3 Reed Bunting 20 Fieldfare 15 Starling 7 Bullfinch flock

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Late news for yesterday when three Snow Buntings were flushed from the moor on the top of Winter Hill within Lancashire and flew towards the rocket shaped mast but could not be relocated.

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Short-eared Owl hunting over the snow on Two Lads Hill at 08:20 this morning.

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Other visible migration from Scout Road this morning included:

239 Pink-footed Geese SE in 2 skeins and 200+ NW in 1 skein
15 flocks of Fieldfare south totalling 816 birds
2 Crossbill directly south towards Bolton

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Two female/immature Snow Buntings south over Scout Road this morning.

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This morning's total 07:30-10:30am:

13 skeins of Pink-footed Geese E/SE totalling 2478 birds
2 flocks of Whooper Swans E
636 Woodpigeon
64 Redwing S
106 Fieldfare S
77 Chaffinch S
1 Brambling N
1 Crossbill N
13 redpoll S

Info thanks to Andy Makin

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Today's totals from Scout Road 07:45-10:30:

70 Pink-footed Goose SE at 08:07
Single Green Woodpecker high south, continued without stopping!
88 Woodpigeon
465 Fieldfare S in 7 flocks
56 redpoll S
4 Brambling
13 Crossbill S

Also 3 Stonechat at the top of Burnt Edge

Info thanks to Andy Makin

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