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090526

Cadishead Moss/Great Woolden Moss

22 Swallow

1 Yellow Wagtail

8 House Martin

26 House Sparrow

2 Shoveler

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Cuckoo calling @ 1105

2 Stonechat in alarm

2 Sedge Warbler

2 Garden Warbler

12 Willow Warbler



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Irlam Moss

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Yellowhammer

1 Oystercatcher

2 Grey Partridge

 



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Irlam Moss

2 Stonechat

6 Stock Dove

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Ringed Plover

1 Willow Warbler collecting Nesting Material

1 Water Rail

4 Tufted Duck

6 Swift

 



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Astley Moss

2 Yellowhammer 

13 Willow Warbler

10 Reed Bunting

7 Meadow Pipit

Little Woolden Moss LWRNR

2 Hobby @1240

 

 

 



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A quick visit to LWM this morning before the heavy rain came in produced highlights of;
Blackcap
Cuckoo
Curlew
Garden Warbler
Hobby
Kestrel
Lapwing
Reed Bunting
Sedge Warbler
Shoveler
Stonechat
Whitethroat
Willow Warbler
Yellow Wagtail





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Little Woolden Moss

3 Yellowhammer

22 Lapwing

2 Red-Legged Partridge

1 Wheatear

2 Grey Partridge

1 Curlew

17 Skylark

5 Swift

4 Yellow Wagtail

 



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Irlam Moss

17 Swallow

6 Stock Dove

18 Rook

1 Red-Legged Partridge

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Wigeon

4 Tufted Duck

1 Hobby @ 1300

8 Sedge Warbler

1 Grasshopper Warbler

24 Willow Warbler

 

 



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Barton Moss...the fallow area on FN49 destroyed taking with it nesting opportunities for Several Species...Reed Bunting/Yellow Wagtail/Skylark were all here last week...distinct possibility of  nests being destroyed 

2 Sand Martin

21 Swallow

8 House Martin

5 Skylark

FN55

1 Stonechat with food

1 Yellow Wagtail

3 Reed Bunting

FN7

1 Wheatear

1 Yellowhammer

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

8 Swift

1 Mediterranean Gull

 



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New Moss Wood

12 Whitethroat in song

2 Willow Tit

36 Lesser Redpoll

9 Willow Warbler in song

12 Garden Warbler in song

7 Blackcap in song

8 Chiffchaff

Cadishead Moss

4 Grey Partridge

Glaze

2 Little Egret

7 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Raven

1 Reed Warbler

2 Hobby @ 1220

 



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This evening, birds on Astley Moss along Rindle Road included:
Greylag Goose 6
Red-legged Partridge 6
Lapwing 20, which included a brood of 5 downy young in a tilled field
Oystercatcher 2
Yellow Wagtail 1
Yellowhammer 1 singing
Great Spotted Woodlpecker 1
Whitethroat 1

South of the railway a pair of Grey Partridge were along Astley Road, where two Mistle Thrush mobbed a Sparrowhawk

Little Woolden Moss:
Gadwall 1
Shoveler 1
Teal 1
Cuckoo 1 singing
Curlew 2
Oystercatcher 2
Lapwing 5 including a juvenile
Sedge Warbler 3 singing
Grasshopper Warbler 2 reeling
Garden Warbler 1 singing
Blackcap 2 singing
Willow Warbler 17 singing
1 Stonechat
3 Reed Bunting






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Highlights from Little Woolden Moss LWT lNR this morning. A wader fest:

4 Wood Sandpiper - which flew off east together with a Redshank
4 Sanderling over east
4 Golden Plover over east
2 Ringed Plover
1 Common Sandpiper
3 Redshank
2 Curlew
3 Oystercatcher
1 Channel Wagtail - male
3 Yellow Wagtail
1 White Wagtail
1 Hobby
1 Little Egret
1 Garden Warbler
2 Reed Warbler
2 Stonechat
2 Shoveler

Around the rest of the mosses -
1 Mediterranean Gull
3 Wheatear
3 Yellow Wagtail - 2m, 1f
2 Red-legged Partridge
4 Grey Partridge

Yesterday- LWM LWT NR -
1 Whimbrel



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The Greenshank was on the lower west pool, at LWTNR Woolden Moss, that runs beside the footpath at 1115hrs today.

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Greenshank on the floods on Astley Moss East this late afternoon.



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Saturday 2nd May 2026. 09:30 - 12:30 hrs.

West of Little Woolden Moss NR - section of River Glaze - Moss Lane - Whitegate Farm - Red House Farm - Polytunnels - clockwise circuit of Little Woolden Moss NR

Sightings included:

Yellow Wagtail (2)
Grey Wagtail (2)
Pied Wagtail (4)
Swallow (3)
Sedge Warbler (3)
Reed Warbler (2)
Reed Bunting (4)
Whitethroat (5)
Goldcrest (1)
Greenfinch (2)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (1)
Skylark (5)
Grey Heron (2)
Little Egret (2)
Willow Warbler (12)
Lapwing (24)
Curlew (1)
Goldfinch (15)

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Irlam Moss

1 Yellow Wagtail

70 Rook

2 Swallow

1 Yellowhammer

1 Song Thrush in song

Cadishead Moss

12 Lapwing with 6 recently hatched young noted

2 Yellow Wagtail

14 Skylark

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Garden Warbler in song

11 Willow Warbler in song

2 Hobby @ Noon

2 Mediterranean Gull Flying over

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss

2 Yellowhammer

23 Lapwing

3 Yellow Wagtail

4 Lesser Redpoll

1 Mediterranean Gull

3 Wheatear

1 Lapwing nest saved by the farmer who ploughed round it...not an untypical act by the farmers of this part of the Mosslands...an example to all!



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Irlam Moss

25 Rook

1 Yellowhammer in song

17 Swallow

1 Wheatear

80 Rook

Chat Moss

18 Willow Warbler in song

2 Lesser Redpoll

2 Greylag Geese

2 Bullfinch

1 Yellowhammer

 



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Irlam Moss

7 Yellow Wagtail

13 Swallow

5 Wheatear

2 Raven

2 Yellowhammer

1 Cetti's Warbler

1 Shoveler

2 Shelduck

 



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Little Woolden Moss

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Wheatear

2 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Reed Warbler

6 Sedge Warbler

45 Willow Warbler 

9 Whitethroat

1 Grasshopper Warbler

12 Reed Bunting

9 Meadow Pipit

2 Mediterranean Gull Flying Over @ 1120

2 Hobby both noted @ 1130+1310

4 Swallow

 



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Barton Moss

10 Skylark in song

5 Yellow Wagtail

1 Little Ringed Plover

8 Lapwing

7 House Martin

12 Swallow

2 Grey Partridge

Chat Moss

12 Stock Dove

2 Rook

1 Wheatear

 



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Irlam Moss

27 Starling

1 Grey Partridge

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Yellowhammer in song

Cadishead Moss FN29

14 Lapwing...these having returned to breed here for first time in years as this year it was Spring Sown....BUT SADLY the 'crop' looks like silage

meaning this field is following the adjacent fields into driving out farmland breeding birds from this area of the moss too as silage is a nest destroyer par-excellence...

the Yellow Wagtails which have survived here as the crops were cereals will too disappear.....the Yellowhammer 'might survive as the field ditch on the land owned on the Irlam farmland doesn't shave his ditches to a No1 cut but leaves it in a wildlife friendly overgrown...still drains---and YH can breed there...it doesn't take much to save nature just a tad of thought!

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Hobby @1145

2 Curlew.

 



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Little Woolden Moss with one of my old WEA Groups

2 Yellowhammer

1 Whimbrel (in another field from one noted yesterday)

3 Grey Partridge

2 Red-Legged Partridge

2 Yellow wagtail

9 Wheatear

4 Stock Dove



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Little Woolden Moss FN56/57/64 with a Group from Hale U3A

13 Wheatear

22 Lapwing

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Whimbrel (Thanks to Dave Stewart)

a check of Little Woolden Moss LWTNR also gave

1 Marsh Harrier 

1 Hobby



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Irlam Moss

36 Rook

Chat Moss

26 Willow Warbler in song

6 Teal

1 Marsh Harrier...Female

Whilst on Chat Moss had a phone call @ approx 1000 from Ian Jenkinson that 2 Common Crane were flying towards Croxden (FN65) but I couldn't see them as was within tree cover...checked in Astley area but didn't catch up with them...but did note a Common Tern with a fish flying in the Pennington Flash direction..

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...with Dave Stewart

1 Hobby @1235

 

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR...after a morn at Woolston with a Group

1 Marsh Harrier

9 Willow Warbler in song

4 Mute Swan (originally noted by Ian Jenkinson)

11 Lapwing

1 Oystercatcher.



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Yellowhammers were seen near the West side car park, 1 was later heard singing
there too.
A Blackcap was also singing from bushes near there, and a pair of Goldfinches were
were seen nearby.
1m+1f Kestrels were seen over the moss, at one point I had a Hobby and a Kestrel
in view through my bins at the same time. It appeared that the male Kestrel challenged
the Hobby and tried to chase it off, but the former was outmatched straight away and
gave up.
The Hobby seemed to be rehearsing catching dragonflies or hirundines in flight,
or simply giving such a breath taking display as to announce that the maestro flyer is back.
A Buzzard was seen flying onto a fence post by the former turf fields, now containing
sheep, but the raptor was soon flushed by a crow, just as I was about to take a photo.
Even in the early afternoon the path along the Southern boundary was filled with
Willow Warbler song, spring is well and truly back. A Chiffchaff gave a burst of song along
the Western edge of the moss, but you really know what you've missed all winter when
it's slightly larger cousin opens up.
At least 2 Ravens were seen over moss, but no sign of any harriers.
The area around the large shallow pool by the path on the South side of the moss held
a pair of Oystercatchers, a dozen Black-headed Gulls and a couple of pairs of Lapwings.
A pair of Lesser Blacked-backed Gulls, in absolute pristine plumage appeared to be
viewing potential nest-sites on the moss.





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Little Woolden Moss

33 Willow Warbler in song

4 Raven

12 Lapwing

2 Curlew

2 Garden Warbler

14 Linnet

1 Sedge Warbler

Little Woolden Moss

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Grey Partridge

3 Wheatear

 

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss

2 Yellowhammer

2 White Wagtail

19 Skylark

3 Grey Partridge

24 Lapwing

11 Wheatear

1 Curlew

Glaze

2 Little Egret

2 Swallow

21 Sand Martin

 

 



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Barton Moss

3 Yellow Wagtail

6 Wheatear

3 Reed Bunting

15 Lapwing

21 Skylark

1 Kingfisher

6 Swallow

Chat Moss

2 Grey Partridge

1 Yellow Wagtail

9 Skylark

12 Lapwing

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Water Rail

14 Lapwing

2 Shoveler

1 Curlew

 

 

 



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This morning 2 x Grasshopper Warblers, 2 x Wheatear, 2 x Curlew, 1 x Yellowhammer, 1 x Tree Sparrow.

However bird of my day or even bird of the year for me was a Wood Sandpiper on the Eastern pools. Initially half hidden by a post then flushed by 2 x Oystercatcher and finally seen feeding in clear view. Observed for approx 30 mins before disappearing. Heat haze made photos tricky.



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Early morning walk around LWTNR Little Woolden Moss. 3 Sedge Warblers all along the west side boundary. 4 Grasshopper Warblers along the west and southern edges. 2 Garden Warblers 1 in each corner of the southern side. 2 Shelduck, 2 Curlew, 3 Oystercatchers. 1 Marsh Harrier 2 x pairs of Stonechat. 1 Whimbrel in field 56 still present at 1205hrs. 2 Wheatears in field beside the polytunnels.

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Astley Moss

4 Blackcap in song

22 Willow Warbler in song

18 Meadow Pipit

1 Stonechat male

4 Snipe

1 Yellowhammer in song

2 Red-Legged Partridge

Irlam Moss

34 Rook

2 Swallow

2 Curlew

2 Oystercatcher

Chat Moss

2 Raven

6 Willow Warbler

1 Goldcrest

 



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Little Woolden Moss + Glaze During a Carbon Landscape Breeding Bird Survey SJ6895

6 Sand Martin

3 Yellow Wagtail

2 Swallow

1 Curlew

1 White Wagtail

6 Wheatear

2 Yellowhammer

2 Grey Partridge

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

39 Willow Warbler in song

 



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Barton Moss

2 Grey Partridge

8 Wheatear

10 Lapwing

1 Yellowhammer

9 Skylark

1 Marsh Harrier

Chat Moss

1 Garden Warbler

1 Marsh Harrier

2 Curlew

4 Greylag Geese

4 Oystercatcher

 



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Irlam Moss

14 Rook

6 Herring Gull

Chat Moss

9 Lapwing

6 Skylark

44 Willow Warbler in song

6 Teal

3 Oystercatcher

1 Coot

28 Stock Dove

 

 



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Chat Moss

1 Yellowhammer 

1 Stonechat

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

3 Swallow

1 Curlew

2 Rook

7 Reed Buntin

21 Willow Warbler in song

1 Siskin

2 Snipe

4 Lesser Redpoll

1 Yellowhammer



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Little Woolden Moss including the Glaze

2 Male Mandarin Duck

1 Kingfisher

1 Grey Wagtail

16 Skylark

22 Lapwing

19 Wheatear

3 Yellow Wagtail

1 Little Egret

10 Sand Martin

4 Gadwall

 

 



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Barton Moss

6 Lapwing

3 Swallow

22 Skylark

1 Siskin

11 House Sparrow

6 Wheatear

2 Red-Legged Partridge

1 Yellow Wagtail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss including the Glaze

9 Sand Martin

1 Grey Partridge 

2 Swallow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

39 Willow Warbler in song

8 Reed Bunting

12 Meadow Pipit

1 Curlew

1 Lesser Redpoll

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Swallow



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Chat Moss

6 Grey Partridge

1 Curlew

7 Meadow Pipit

3 Yellowhammer

3 Skylark

5 Swallow

8 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss

1 Yellow Wagtail

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR with Ian Jenkinson

16 Swallow

1 Little Ringed Plover

4 Sand Martin

1 House Martin

 



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Minimum 14 Wheatears in one field near the polytunnels with a further 8 across two adjacent fields around 4pm.

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Cycled around the whole of Little Woolden Moss this morning, highlights-

3 male Yellow Wagtails including a channel wag type at the west end
18 Wheatears including 4 along the approach road
44 Willow Warbler counted
4 Chiffchaff
5 Grasshopper Warbler
2 Sedge Warbler
1 Reed Warbler singing west end
5 Whitethroat
4 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
4 Shoveler
2 Gadwall
2 Teal



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Male Whinchat on ploughed fields north of the footpath to the north side of Little Woolden Moss nature reserve at last light. Four Grasshopper Warblers reeling at various points around the reserve too.

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Tuesday 14th April 2026. 09:00 - 11:00 hrs.

Little Woolden Moss NR, Little Woolden Moss and section of River Glaze. Sightings included:

Willow Warbler (25)
Whitethroat (3)
Chiffchaff (5)
Wheatear (6)
Sand Martin (5)
Swallow (3)
Lapwing (20)
Oystercatcher (2)
Shoveler (2)
Kestrel (1)
Little Egret (2)
Grey Heron (1)
Grey Wagtail (1)
Pied Wagtail (3)
Nuthatch (1)
Gadwall (4)
Skylark (1)
Meadow Pipit (4)
Dunnock (2)
Reed Bunting (1)

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Chat Moss

11 Skylark

7 Lapwing

1 Snipe

2 Shoveler

22 Willow Warbler in song

4 Teal

2 Greylag Geese

4 Blackcap in song

2 Whitethroat in song

LWT Little Woolden Moss LWTNR with Dave Stewart

4 Mediterranean Gull (2 Adult 2 immature)

1 Curlew

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss

1 Wheatear

1 Curlew

25 Lapwing

2 Yellowhammer

21 Skylark

10 Sand Martin

LWT Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Lesser Redpoll

10 Willow Warbler in song

2 Curlew in display.



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Walk from the Raven around Little Woolden Moss and back along the Glaze. 2 House Martins under eaves, 4 Swallows, male Wheatear near the polytunnels. Willow Warblers everywhere, at least 8 singing Blackcap, pair of Redpoll in Alders near Lavender Lane. Two Kingfishers, female Goosander, 8 Teal and a male Mandarin on the Glaze.

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Irlam Moss

1 Yellowhammer in song

Cadishead Moss

6 Lapwing on a field which used to host at least 12 Breeding pairs but this has had Winter Crops sown for past few years until this year hence return of the birds to hopefully breed...only downside is this field has been spread with 'Green Waste' in recent years and this was FULL of Plastic hence field looks like a municipal  Tip!

9 Skylark in song

LWT Little Woolden Moss NR

1 Willow Warbler in song

2 Mediterranean Gull )First Noted by Steve Nelson Yesterday)

1 Curlew



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010426 brief afternoon visit

Irlam Moss

1 Swallow

1 Wheatear

LWT Little Woolden Moss NR

19 Lapwing

1 Curlew



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Chat Moss

2 Grey Partridge

1 Curlew

3 Stock Dove

LWT Little Woolden Moss NR

7 Meadow Pipit in Display

5 Reed Bunting in song

1 Curlew

Little Woolden Moss FN56/57/64

26 Lapwing

21 Skylark

2 Oystercatcher



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