I could only find 3 Water Rail territories in the Abram Flashes - several usual territories were vacant - when I did my annual tape census today and yesterday. Some parts of the Wigan Flashes (but not all) are also down on last year. There were 4 Grasshoper warblers singing in the Abram Flashes and one at Tinker Joe's Flash, where also a Water Rail territory today.
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Judith Smith
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Lightshaw hall Flash is sacrosanct - NO paths please!