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RE: Chorlton ees


Two great spotted woodpeckers drumming to each other above the sewage channels today at 9:00

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Gadwall 12 displaying in the flooded cow field
Coot 1 in the cow field
Heron 16, at least 5 occupied nests in the heronry
Buzzard 1 cow field
Kestrel male in meadow field, female Ivy Green
Goldcrest 2 meadow field
Redwing 3
Great Spotted Woodpecker 3

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On Hardy Farm, 1315, a flock of 30+ lesser redpolls were feeding on the small trees between the path to Jackson's Boat and the tram lines before flying off. I bumped into them again feeding on the birches between the tram bridge and golf course ten minutes later and they flew on over to Sale Golf Course.

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Yellowhammer 1
Reed Bunting 4
Bullfinch 12
Greenfinch 8
Chaffinch 4
Linnet 1
Redpoll 2
Siskin 14
Willow Tit 2
Blackcap 1
Fieldfare 22
Redwing 5

40sp tot

-- Edited by Pete Hines on Thursday 22nd of October 2020 07:25:05 PM

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10.37-13.28

Peregrine 1 > north over Ivy Green at 10.41 (record shot)
Kestrel 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Buzzard 2
Swallow only 5 > south
Meadow Pipit only 2 > south
Chiffchaff only 1
Treecreeper 2
Reed Bunting 7 in the meadow field

35 species 390 individuals


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Swifts and Swallows over.

Spotted Flycatcher - west end of Meadow Pond.

Reed Warbler

A few Common Whitethroat



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2 Swifts over Hardy Farm today

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40 species incl :

Goosander 8 flyover
Stock Dove 6 (pair checking out the boxes at Chorlton Ees car park)
Sparrowhawk 1
Kestrel 1
Reed Warbler 3 (2 singing male incl a pair) - meadow pond
Common Whitethroat 5
Willow Warbler 1
Chiffchaff 7
Blackcap 13
Grey Wagtail singing male
Greenfinch 3
Reed Bunting

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Meadow pond & meadow field

Reed Warbler 1 on territory
Common Whitethroat 4, 3 singing males, pair carrying nesting material
Reed Bunting 2 male
Goosander 4 flyover


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Green Sandpiper 1 arrived from the north, over the woods, flew two circuits of the meadow field straight overhead before departing north-west
Common Whitethroat 2 singing males, 1 meadow field still and 1 Hardy Farm
Blackcap 17
Willow Warbler 3
Chiffchaff 6
Sand Martin 5
House Martin 1
Greenfinch 9 Hardy Farm
Reed Bunting 6

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Willow Tit 4 (2 meadow field, 1 heronry, 1 Ivy Green)
Common Whitethroat 1
Blackcap 18
Willow Warbler 2
Chiffchaff 8
Goosander 5

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yesterday 12th April

Common Whitethroat 1 singing male (also present on 11th April - Tony O'Mahony)
House Martin 1

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On the way back from Swp today.
Grey Wagtail - 2 (R.Mersey).

Cow field -
Mistle thrush 4.
Dunnock - 4.
Robin - 2.
Reed Bunting - 1.
Moorhen - 1.
Redwing - 1.
Plus Chris Sutton and partner.

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4 great spotted woodpecker this morning in one tree on Hardy farm. Suspect 2 pairs sorting out boundaries. 2 buzzards headed over Hardy farm towards the golf club. Still some redwing lurking in the tree tops but numbers down. Chris

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The cow field is now 50 percent covered in water and has bought in some irregular visitors to the field; Moorhen 5+ Gadwall 6 Canada goose 15 Also a few regulars around ; Reed bunting 2 Buzzard 1 Black headed gull 1 Long-tailed tit 2. Plenty of mallard and magpie. Regards C

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Around 150 - 200 Redwing on Hardy Farm training pitches this morning along with a few Mistle Thrush
12 Goldfinch
Mixed Tit flock of Blue Tit and Great Tit
Ring Necked Parakeets as usual.

Chris

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Fairly quiet lunchtime walk but highlights were 2 water rail heard, 2 willow tit, 1 sparrowhawk, 1 meadow pipit, 4 buzzard.

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Highlights today were 21 redwing, 1 swallow heading south, 1 willow tit, 2 bullfinch, 1 meadow pipit, 1 grey wagtail, 1 kestrel, 1 buzzard, loads of herons.

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Evening visit.

11 ring-necked parakeets
1 raven low over tram bridge at jacksons boat at 7.10pm
2 buzzards
1 treecreeper
2 goldcrests
2 jays
1 grey wagtail on river
Tawny owl heard only

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Nice view of a tawny owl silhouetted against the sky calling above me this evening.

Also grasshopper warbler and water rail heard.

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Nice to hear a willow tit on the walk around yesterday amongst usuals

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Yesterday evening:

1 goldcrest
5 chiffchaff
8 blackcap
3 whitethroat
1 reed warbler
4 reed bunting
2 swallow over river
9 song thrush
3 swift
5 mallard ducklings on river
1 or 2 grey heron
2 black-headed gull on river
2 tawny owl


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Morning visit.

6 whitethroats
5 blackcaps
1 willow warbler
2 Chiffchaff
1 common buzzard
1 jay
2 reed buntings
3 ring-necked parakeets
1 swift
1 swallow 1 grey wagtail

-- Edited by steven burke on Sunday 12th of May 2019 10:35:06 PM

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Evening visit.

3 whitethroats
4 blackcaps
2 Chiffchaffs
1 willow warbler
Grasshopper warbler heard only
4 reed buntings
1 jay
4 stock doves
1 goosander over
1 great spotted woodpecker

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Late report from yesterday:

1 goldcrest
9 chiffchaff
11 blackcap
10 whitethroat
2 reed warbler
3 nuthatch
3 greenfinch
4 bullfinch
2 reed bunting
4 song thrush
2 jay
3 moorhen
1 kestrel
2 buzzard

Hardy Farm and Barlow Tip, mid to late afternoon:

8 chiffchaff
2 willow warbler
12 blackcap
5 whitethroat
2 greenfinch
6 bullfinch
1 reed bunting
1 swallow
3 song thrush
1 buzzard

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Late report from yesterday evening; approx 7-30 - 9:

3 chiffchaff
9 blackcap
2 bullfinch
3 reed bunting
2 redwing heard over
5 song thrush
2 mistle thrush
1 water rail heard
1 moorhen heard
2 tawny owl (one heard, one seen over)
1 buzzard

-- Edited by Shannon Llewellyn on Friday 19th of April 2019 10:53:06 PM

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Late post for yesterday around 10:30 am, pretty much the same as Chris.

1 male whitethroat, my first of the year
1 chiffchaff
3 ring-necked parakeet

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A brief walk round Hardy Farm at 7pm

First Whitethroat of the year just past the bridge opposite Jackson Boat
Chiffchaff
3 Blackcap
Song Thrush

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Few hours round here today, late morning through to early afternoon:

1 goldcrest heard singing
9 chiffchaff
11 blackcap
2 willow tit
2 treecreeper (nest building)
2 nuthatch
7+ goldfinch
1 greenfinch heard
1 chaffinch heard
2+ bullfinch
1 grey wagtail (near bridge over brook)
6 song thrush
2 mistle thrush
4 jay
4 grey heron (at least 2 active nests)
1 kestrel

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afternoon visit.

1 buzzard
1 kestrel
3 ring-necked parakeets
3 reed buntings
2 bullfinch
3 stock doves
25 sand Martins straight over heading north-west
5 Chiffchaffs
1 blackcap
2 grey herons
2 grey wagtails
1 redwing

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8-9am Hardy Farm and around the Cow Field - of note;

Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming in 3 locations
Bullfinch 1
Chiffchaff - 3 locations
Buzzard - 2 - once taking food from the Cow Field and eating it on a tree stump
Sparrowhawk (f) - 1
Ring-necked parakeet - many
Heron 1
Stock Dove - 2

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afternoon visit.

4-5 buzzards
1 kestrel
1 sparrowhawk
1 jay
3 reed bunting
2 stock doves
1 grey heron
2 grey wagtail
4 chiffchaffs
7 ring-necked parakeets
1 mistle thrush
1 lesser redpoll
1 goldcrest

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afternoon/evening visit.

5 chiffchaffs, singing in several locations
2 buzzards
5 ring-necked parakeets
3 grey herons
2 treecreeper
1 jay
1 willow tit, heard
1 mistle thrush
3 reed buntings
1 siskin
2 snipe, another 2 heard
1 grey wagtail


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Yesterday pm

3 active Grey Heron nests with a pair seen copulating.

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Afternoon visit.

9 ring-necked parakeets
1 great spotted woodpecker
1 nuthatch another heard
1 treecreeper
1 kestrel
1 sparrowhawk
1 mistle thrush
1 stock dove over hardy farm
2 goosander over river
2 goldcrest
Siskin heard
26 redwings over
Numerous song thrushes singing

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4 common buzzard
3 sparrowhawk
1 kestrel
All in the air together this morning.

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16.10-17.20

Jackdaw 1700
Carrion Crow 71
Tawny Owl 1 male calling Ivy Green




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Few hours round here today, late morning through to dusk:

5+ goldcrest
1 coal tit heard
1 willow tit
5 nuthatch
8+ siskin
1 goldfinch
6 bullfinch
2 redwing
5 song thrush
3 jay
1 great spotted woodpecker heard
1 green woodpecker heard yaffling in trees adjacent to the hay field
8 ring-necked parakeet
2 stock dove over
3 teal on long pond
1 grey heron
2 common gull
3 herring gull over
2 cormorant over
1+ kestrel

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Dusk visit. This site requires a proper corvid roost / pre-roost count.

Raven 1 solo bird flew in from the west at 15.27, dropping into the Ees seemingly to join the corvid flock but not relocated.
Jackdaw 1200 - 1400 moving west out of Chorltonville
Carrion Crow - many arriving from the west, possibly 200+, wouldn't be surprised if there are a few Rook in there
Magpie 60+
Ring-necked Parakeet c20
Sparrowhawk 1
Kestrel 1
Grey Wagtail 1

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brief walk around this morning, highlights being 2 willow tit, 1 kestrel, 1 sparrowhawk, 2 buzzard, 7 ring-necked parakeet, 3 bullfinch, 1 goldcrest, 2 treecreeper

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Best birds from my first brief visit this morning:

1 or 2 Ring- necked Parakeet- my first GM record!

6 Siskin.

1 Buzzard and 2 Kestrel.



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Few hours over Hardy Farm and Barlow Tip this afternoon; pretty productive:

4 goldcrest
1 treecreeper
2 nuthatch
20 - 30 lesser redpoll (15 - 25 over on Hardy Farm, heading over the wood, 5 mobile on Barlow Tip)
2 goldfinch
5 chaffinch
6+ bullfinch
1 reed bunting
1+ grey wagtail
2 song thrush
2 mistle thrush
4 - 5 jay
1 great spotted woodpecker
2 mute swan on the river, both 1st winter
1 grey heron (on golf course)
6 common gull (on training pitch)
7 herring gull over
5+ cormorant over (seemed to be heading back and forth between the water parks)
1 kestrel

Also possibly a couple of siskin over, though a single faint call wasn't enough to confirm.

Buzzard in the old cow field on the Ees when heading home.

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Dusk this evening;
Buzzard (1) over
Tawny Owl calling
Woodcock (1) flew out the old cow field - great view against the night sky
Alongside the normal show of Jackdaws going to roost there seems to be a growing roost of Crows in the woods (compared to recent years). Giving the Buzzard and Owl a hard time

Chris

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Cow field this afternoon.

1 buzzard
10 ring-necked parakeets
3 teal over
12 siskin over
1 great spotted woodpecker
2 grey heron
1 goldcrest with tit flock
Nuthatch heard.

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Hardy Farm quiet this morning.

Chorlton Ees Cow Field:

Snipe (2)
Buzzard (2)
Plenty of Parakeets
Kestrel on Hay Meadow.
Heron in Field.

and at dusk:
Buzzard
Woodcock (1)

Chris

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Sunday 28/10, 2 kingfisher on the Mersey between the reedbed pond and Sale WP.
Around the reedbed pond (which was undergoing management), 5 redwing, 1 song thrush, 3 blackbird on the rowan trees. One flock of c.20 redwing over south.
1 kestrel hunting over the rank grassland and willowherbs. Some siskin over (heard only).

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Stonechat (1) foraging amongst the Creeping Thistle this morning on Hardy Farm.

Other than that quiet apart from a noisy Nuthatch and a few Reed Bunting.

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Willow Tit on Hardy Farm this morning

Last night saw a Kestrel hunting the Cow Field around dusk - very few and far between this year in the area. Usual pair of Buzzard present.

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Chiffchaff singing away in the Orchard area this morning was a nice surprise. Also a small flock of Fieldfare over.

Yesterday in the Cow Field - 2 buzzard and a large female Sparrowhawk being harassed. Constant movement of noisy Ring-necked Parakeets overhead - one group of around 20.

Chris

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Few hours around here today; morning to afternoon:

2 goldcrest
3+ chiffchaff
4+ blackcap
2 coal tit
4 or 5 willow tit (2 Ivy Green, 2 or 3 meadow pond)
3 or 4 nuthatch
2 greenfinch
4+ bullfinch heard
2 house martin
10+ swallow
1 grey wagtail
7+ jay
1 great spotted woodpecker heard
1 stock dove
1 grey heron
1 cormorant over
1 sparrowhawk
2+ buzzard

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