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Little Woolden Moss this afternoon 

Female Marsh Harrier with juvenile Lapwing prey, 2 x Yellowhammer, 1 x Yellow Wagtail, 5 x Teal and 1 x Grasshopper Warbler were birds of note.



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

13 Meadow Pipit

2 Teal

7 Willow Warbler

1 Curlew

2 Moorhen with 4 Young



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Irlam Moss

22 Magpie

1 Sparrowhawk

1 Oystercatcher

2 Song Thrush

Chat Moss

2 Common Tern

1 Little Egret

21 Willow Warbler

10 Swift

 

 



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Astley Moss

6 Meadow Pipit

14 Willow Warbler

3 Reed Bunting

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1035

....and a brief glimpse of the past as a Pullman Train dashed along the Railway line...recalling that the Turtle Dove/Tree Pipit/Curlew...and more that were here in the sixties are but dust....what have we done....????????



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Irlam Moss

12 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

9 Swallow

5 Rook

Cadishead Moss

3 Yellow Wagtail

10 Skylark

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

7 Willow Warbler

9 Lapwing

2 Stock Dove



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR With Ian Jenkinson

11 Willow Warbler

6 Reed Bunting

2 Hobby

1 Sedge Warbler



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

34 Willow Warbler

21 Meadow Pipit

2 Curlew

27 Reed Bunting

2 Sedge Warbler

2 Stonechat



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6.25pm probable Quail flushed by mammal in the field outside Astley Moss, along drainage ditch from the hay/silage/grass pile on the path. No sign since, and no call.

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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Hobby

1 Sparrowhawk...Male

1 Garden Warbler in song

1 Blackcap in song

2 Curlew

75 Swift

7 Swallow

1 Moorhen with 4 small young



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Marsh Harrier with Prey @ 1024

26 Swift

4 Oystercatcher

5 Meadow Pipit in Display Flight

 



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Barton Moss

1 Goldcrest in song

17 Swallow

14 House Martin

7 Skylark

3 Yellow Wagtail

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

26 Willow Warbler

18 swift

1 Sparrowhawk...Male

4 Teal

2 Song Thrush

3 Sedge Warbler

 



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Irlam Moss

5 Willow Warbler

1 Sedge Warbler

19 Magpie

30 Starling

Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1005

1 Yellowhammer

6 Willow Warbler

3 Blackcap

1 Sedge Warbler

17 Willow Warbler

4 Bullfinch

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

21 Lapwing

4 Teal

7 Reed Bunting

Little Woolden Moss FN56/57/64

3 Yellow Wagtail...what a crash in numbers over past two years

2 Yellowhammer

2 Curlew in alarm

19 Skylark

4 Lapwing in alarm...2 young noted

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

155 Swift

1 Curlew

4 Lapwing...2 pair with 5 young in total

Cadishead Moss

1 Yellowhammer in song

5 Swallow

12 House Sparrow

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR including a Breeding Bird Survey

26 Willow Warbler

5 Reed Bunting

4 Linnet + 1 Linnet Nest with 5 Eggs

1 Snipe

2 Greylag Geese

Sit and watch session later with Dave Stewart and Ian Jenkinson

75 Swift

2 Marsh Harrier

3 Hobby (Ian noted a total of 5 after Dave and I had left)

2 pair of Teal

Pair Lapwing with 4 Small Young



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New Moss Wood

1 Willow Tit

6 Blackcap

15 Blackbird

21 Wren

5 Willow Warbler

Great Woolden Hall Area

30 House Sparrow

9 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

8 Swallow

11 House Martin



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Little Woolden Moss With Fred Ford

13 Skylark

2 Yellowhammer

25 Swift

2 Yellow Wagtail

Later after saying Bye to Fred Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West

2 Hobby

1 Sedge Warbler in song

1 Oystercatcher

2 Little Egret which flew over and onto the Glaze



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Afternoon visit 13.00-16.30 approx

Little Woolden LWTNR

2 Marsh Harriers, 2 Kestrels, 3 Ravens, 1 pair of Teal (M+F), 1 Curlew, 2 Oystercatchers,

100+ Lapwings (Post breeding flock?) gathered on the pool along SE corner of the reserve

and 1 adult Lapwing seen guarding 4 small youngsters.

Swifts in view throughout my stay, seemed impossible to estimate numbers.

8+ Willow Warblers and 2 Chiffchaffs singing along the birch woodland on the South side the reserve.

1 Yellow Wagtail flushed off a fence post by the River Glaze (GM side) as I slowly drove past.



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Chat Moss

9 Skylark

10 Canada Goose 4 adult 6 Young

2 Swallow

12 Lapwing

2 Curlew

30 Willow Warbler in song

1 Sedge Warbler in song

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...with Ian Jenkinson 

27 Swift

3 Marsh Harrier

2 Hobby

1 Mediterranean Gull Flew Over @ 1208

15 Lapwing 

2 Oystercatcher

6 Rook

1 Garden Warbler in song 

1 Peregrine...female

 

 



-- Edited by Dave Steel on Sunday 1st of June 2025 05:41:36 PM

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Little Woolden Moss NR 1st June am Tree Pipit on the far west border of the NR.

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Cadishead Moss

4 Yellow Wagtail

1 Yellowhammer

7 Skylark

26 Starling

8 Lapwing

Irlam Moss

2 Grey Partridge

1 Yellow Wagtail

50 Rook

Chat Moss 

25 Swift

1 Yellowhammer

2 Bulfinch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Wheatear

29 Lapwing

35 Swift

1 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier in moult with one leg dangling

2 Oystercatcher



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Chat Moss

17 House Martin

13 Swallow

44 Stock Dove

1 Grey Partridge

Barton Moss

1 Yellow Wagtail

7 Skylark

5 Swift

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

28 Lapwing

2 Hobby

70 Swift

1 Yellow Wagtail

 

 



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Originally posted by Joe Shaw today:

1 Hobby

2 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier ( what a bird, so lucky to have these on our doorstep)



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Barton Moss Including a Carbon Landscape BBS

11 Whitethroat

16 Skylark

2 Lapwing

9 Reed Bunting

2 Stonechat

1 Sedge Warbler

3 Yellow Wagtail

23 Swallow

16 House Martin



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Spoonbill 2010hrs on the west pools. 2015hrs takes flight, struggling in the wind, but flies perfect West towards Culcheth and out of sight.

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Little Woolden Moss during a Carbon Landscape Breeding Bird Survey

39 Willow Warbler in song

16 Reed Bunting

1 Sedge Warbler in song

11 Meadow Pipit

33 Swift

12 Skylark

4 Yellow Wagtail

2 Yellowhammer



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Little Woolden Moss during a Carbon Landscape Breeding Bird Survey

24 Willow Warbler in song

11 Reed Bunting

8 Meadow Pipit

1 Hobby

1 Little Egret

1 Reed Warbler in song

1 Sedge Warbler in song

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Yellowhammer



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....late late record

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Chat Moss

2 Whimbrel

2 Yellowhammer in song

16 Willow Warbler in song

2 Sedge Warbler in song

6 House Sparrow

5 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

13 Willow Warbler in song

1 Oystercatcher

3 Hobby

1 Grasshopper Warbler in song

1 Curlew

12 Lapwing

 



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...Maps for Fred Ford who was asking about access points to Chat Moss

 

 

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A pair of Yellow Wagtails on field 67 of Astley Moss this early afternoon.

On Astley Moss East, including the old sand quarry lake:

25 Greylag Geese

One Shelduck

Three Tufted Ducks

Two Dunlins (adult and first-summer) on the flooded section of peat close to the railway

Two Sanderlings

Adult Mediterranean Gull flew through W/NW

Adult Hobby hunting to the east



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Mid afternoon yesterday saw 4 x Hobby over the main pool at Little Woolden



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Quick visit to west end of Little Woolden Moss LWTNR at about 2:00pm today (after Penn Flash).

Along with a couple of others I saw:

  • Red Kite being mobbed by a pair of crows
  • 2 Hobby returning every 15-20 minutes to do some more hunting - eating (presumably) dragonflies mid-air


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Chat Moss

22 Lapwing

2 Whimbrel (noted by Steve Nelson last night 7th)

3 Swallow

26 Willow Warbler in song

1 Sedge Warbler in song

5 reed Bunting

1 Shoveler...Male

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...west

1 Redshank

1 Garden Warbler in song

1 Stonechat

7 Reed Bunting

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
32 Willow Warbler in song

2 Curlew in Display

4 Teal

1 Reed Warbler in Song

2 Rook

1 Sedge warbler in song

5 Hobby...Viewed these with Ian Jenkinson whose sharp eyes found a sixth bird!...the age difference really starting to show on these aged eyes of mine!!!!

Little Woolden Moss FN56/57

39 Lapwing...but I ask the question over and again of late ...Lapwing started to breed in mid to late march BUT WHERE ARE their young?????

2 Yellowhammer in song

4 Yellow Wagtail



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Irlam Moss

1 Curlew

27 Starling including some young

2 Swallow

42 Rook

1 Buzzard

Chat Moss

12 Lapwing

1 Yellowhammer in song...not to be taken lightly these are very much on the decline on Chat Moss

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Sedge Warbler

4 Swift

1 Water Rail

1 Curlew

3 Hobby (first at 1140).



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Astley Moss

1 Red Legged Partridge

49 Lapwing

14 Stock Dove

1 Stonechat

3 Oystercatcher

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

11 Willow Warbler in song

1 Curlew

1 Grasshopper Warbler

4 Meadow Pipit

 



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Circuit of Little Woolden Moss NR, Little Woolden Moss and section of River Glaze.

Wagtail Day!

Channel Wagtail (1)
Yellow Wagtail (2)
Grey Wagtail (1)
Pied Wagtail (4)
Dipped on White Wagtail!
Redshank (1)
Shoveler (1)
Sedge Warbler (1)
Little Egret (2)
Grey Heron (3)
Curlew (1)
Lapwing (15)
Skylark (3)
Chiffchaff (2)
Willow Warbler (15)
Gadwall (2)
Reed Bunting (2)
Whitethroat (3)
Swift (2)
Swallow (3)
Kestrel (1)
Buzzard (3)





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This evening:

Chat Moss
2 Whimbrel feeding in f52 with a Curlew

Little Woolden Moss NR
Drake Green-winged Teal again at western pools
Male Channel Wagtail on reserve. I have a strong suspicion this is a second bird from the one in the fields north of reserve.



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Barton Moss

12 Swallow

10 House Martin

9 Skylark

1 Swift

4 Yellow Wagtail

10 House Sparrow

1 Goldcrest

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Hobby

8 Willow Warbler in song

1 Sedge Warbler in song

 



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Cadishead Moss

2 Curlew

1 Wheatear

10 Willow Warbler in Song

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Hobby 

62 Willow Warbler in song

16 Reed Bunting

1 Reed Warbler in song

4 Sedge Warbler in song

1 Grasshopper Warbler Reeling

2 Shoveler...Pair

8 Meadow Pipit

1 Yellow Wagtail

 



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Little Woolden Moss...with my old WEA Friday Group

5 Grey Partridge

2 Curlew

1 Hobby

16 Skylark

3 Swallow

2 Yellowhammer

2 Common Tern Flying North

4 Yellow Wagtail

1 Goldcrest

 



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Over 300 large gulls on the sand quarry lake on Astley Moss East also 3 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Shelduck, a pair Tufted Duck, a single Greylag Goose and plenty of Mallard and Canada Geese. Also around the area a couple of Oystercatchers, single Redshank and Curlew with several Lapwings in the area also.



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Little Woolden Moss NR - this afternoon

Male Channel Wagtail again in field near polytunnels with 4 Yellow Wagtails and then seen again later on the reserve with a single Yellow Wagtail at the eastern pools. Assuming it was the same bird?

Also:
3 Hobbies together - one of which chased and tried to catch a Swift

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Astley Moss

28 Willow Warbler in song

2 Snipe

1 Stonechat

1 Tawny Owl

1 Nuthatch

2 Lesser Redpoll

2 Teal

13 Robin

Chat Moss

1 Whimbrel

2 Yellowhammer

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Hobby

1 Marsh Harrier

18 Lapwing

2 Oystercatcher

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Grasshopper Warbler

6 Tufted Duck

3 Shoveler

17 Reed Bunting

15 Linnet

8 Sedge Warbler

2 Stonechat

1 Reed warbler

1 Water Rail

1 Garden Warbler

1 Yellow Wagtail

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

7 Sedge Warbler in song

2 Shoveler...Males

2 Gadwall...Pair

5 Oystercatcher

1 Snipe

2 Teal...Pair

2 Yellowhammer

8 Whitethroat

3 Hobby

1 Grasshopper Warbler

Little Woolden Moss 

16 Lapwing

4 Yellow Wagtail

1 Yellowhammer sat with a pair of Yellow Wagtail which were occupying its territory

2 Grey Partridge

1 Swallow

1 Common Crane.



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Little Woolden Moss NR

The drake Green-winged Teal was on the pools at the western end of the reserve this evening.

Also:
2 Shelduck


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Little Woolden Moss

2 Yellow Wagtail

1 Yellowhammer

6 Sand Martin

1 Redshank

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Yellow Wagtail

10 Swift

3 Hobby

3 Sedge Warbler

4 Whitethroat

1 Water Rail

11 Linnet



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Chat Moss

24 Willow Warbler

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Wigeon...Male

10 Teal

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Redshank

2 Gadwall----Pair

1 Curlew

2 Redshank



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Irlam Moss

3 Wheatear

2 Oystercatcher

2 House Martin

75 Rook

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

9 Willow Warbler

1 Marsh Harrier

2 Shoveler...Pair

2 Redshank

1 Grasshopper Warbler

5 Oystercatcher

 



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