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251124...With Steve Atkins....During a Survey of Natural England Fields

115 Pink-Footed Geese in 3 Skeins

2 Sparrowhawk

3 Lesser Redpoll

2 Yellowhammer

17 Meadow Pipit

26 Lapwing

2 Stonechat

3 Snipe

14 Teal

26 Collared Dove

1 Peregrine hunting...whilst the intended prey....Jackdaw/Feral Pigeon...were distracted a Buzzard swept in an took a Jackdaw..



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Irlam Moss

4 Snipe

13 Fieldfare

17 Pied Wagtail

1500 Starling

500 Lapwing

190 Black-Headed Gull

4 Grey Partridge

Chat Moss

2 Woodcock

3 Yellowhammer

60 Redwing

 



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Little Woolden Moss

260 Jackdaw

180 Starling

2 Grey Partridge

13 Stock Dove

60 Skylark

350 Linnet

30 Greenfinch

80 Chaffinch



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Chat Moss

3 Yellowhammer

13 Blackbird

1 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

5 Lesser Redpoll

47 Redwing

16 Fieldfare

1 Water Rail Calling

Irlam Moss

330 Black-Headed Gull

1 Common Gull

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Woodcock

13 Reed Bunting

5 Redwing

Cadishead Moss

57 Redwing

38 Meadow Pipit

11 Chaffinch

3 Goldcrest

2 Stock Dove

2 Fieldfare 

 



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Little Woolden Moss

33 Chaffinch

300 Fieldfare

2 Buzzard

130 Redwing

8 Stock Dove

400 Starling

350 Linnet

11 Blackbird



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Irlam Moss

58 Mallard

2 Bullfinch...Feeding on Nettle seeds...everything has its worth lest we forget...

12 Long-Tailed Tit

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

300 Starling

Chat Moss

60 Chaffinch

4 Goldcrest

7 Fieldfare

9 Redwing

3 Snipe

13 Blackbird

2 Woodcock

2 Goldcrest

2 Bullfinch

60 Teal

 

 



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Irlam Moss

7 Teal

2 Snipe

5 Meadow Pipit

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Lesser Redpoll

4 Redwing

14 Reed Bunting

3 Snipe

1 Woodcock

6 Skylark

Little Woolden Moss (FN56/57/64)

1 Yellowhammer

260 Linnet

27 Skylark

14 Pied Wagtail

13 Blackbird

40 Chaffinch

23 Meadow Pipit

3 White Fronted Geese

 

 



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Greenland White Fronted Geese  - 3 Adults seen to cross the Glaze from Silver Lane and back into usual area at Lwm. It would be great if these could be posted daily if anyone sees them as I keep seeing them over Silver Lane and would like to know if I'm getting the same birds as it seems these birds must be present daily on lwm area but not posted, has people keep sending me that they are on birdguides etc . But this is the best place to post them surely? Pic attached of the birds this morning. 

 



-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Tuesday 19th of November 2024 06:26:10 PM

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Little Woolden Moss

70 Fieldfare

15 Redwing

7 Teal

270 Canada Geese

80 Black-Headed Gull

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Shoveler...Male

6 Teal

4 Snipe

1 Woodcock

40 Pink-Footed Geese

1 Sparrowhawk....Male

 



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Little Woolden Moss NR - late afternoon

3 Greenland White-fronted Geese flew into centre of reserve to roost
c40 Pink-footed Geese flew into west pools to roost
1 Woodcock flew over


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New Moss Wood...this woodland was deemed to be the place where there would be a 10% Biodiversity gain by the Greater Manchester Spatial Planners in compensation for building on nearby Greenbelt Farmland...from today's and previous occasional visits I feel in my opinion that it could do with a 90% biodiversity gain of its own....

8 Robin

10 Great Tit

9 Blue Tit

13 Wren

7 Dunnock

12 Long-Tailed Tit

1 Chiffchaff

1 Mistle Thrush

1 Redwing

2 Teal

3 Chaffinch

6 Blackbird

3 Magpie

Cadishead Moss

118 Black-Headed Gull

10 Lapwing

1 Herring Gull

38 Meadow Pipit

2 Buzzard

35 House Sparrow

18 Starling

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

2 Grey Wagtail

7 Fieldfare

2 Ring-Necked Parakeet

5 Redwing

 

 

 



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Astley Moss

18 Chaffinch

2 Willow Tit

1 Raven

5 Snipe

2 Marsh Harrier

6 Redwing

2 Buzzard



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

23 Redwing

1 Stonechat...Male

2 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss (FN56/57/64)

1 Yellowhammer

17 Skylark

6 Stock Dove

19 Redwing

7 Fieldfare

200 Linnet

25 Chaffinch

20 Greenfinch

1 Merlin....Male Chasing but not catching a Skylark

1 Grey Wagtail

 



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Chat Moss

9 Grey Partridge

37 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East @ 0822

4 Snipe

92 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East @ 0838

1 Sparrowhawk...Male

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker



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Irlam Moss

2 Bullfinch

2 Yellowhammer

2 Stonechat

2 Lesser Redpoll

5 Meadow Pipit

43 Pink-Footed Geese Flying South @ 1017

Chat Moss

6 Meadow Pipit

1 Golden Plover Flying South @ 1040

2 Lesser Redpoll

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

9 Lesser Redpoll

1 Marsh Harrier

1 Water Rail

70 Lapwing Flying West @ 1142

1 Pink-Footed Goose

 



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Irlam Moss

7 Grey Partridge

700 Starling

4 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

18 Pink-Footed Geese

2 Snipe



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

6 Reed Bunting

3 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss

10 White Fronted Geese

90 Pink-Footed Geese Flying North @ 1040

150 Linnet

9 Grey Partridge

43 Skylark

Irlam Moss 

330 Starling



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Prof Tony Fox has sent more details of the life history of Greenland Whitefront X6Y

Ringed as an adult female 25/9/2016 Hvanneyri, Iceland

Sighted 2-29/11/2016 Loch Lomond

Then relocated to Wexford where seen every winter until 2019

Sighted spring and autumn at Hvanneyri until 2019

Next sighting Woolston Eyes 2/11/2024 then Little Woolden Moss 4-10/11/2024 



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A Woodcock flew across the A57 near Makro and onto Barton Moss this evening as it was getting dark.

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Chat Moss

4 Grey Partridge

18 Fieldfare

16 Redwing

1 Lesser Redpoll

Irlam Moss

370 Starling



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Rick Hall wrote:

Took my lads to see the geese today and ended up doing a full circuit Little Woolden Moss and along the Glaze.

10 Greenland White Fronted Geese in field 56 (we didn't use the path to North of that field!!) - GM Lifer

Large mixed flock of chaffinch, linnet, reed bunting, AN Others. Hard to spend time trying to identify them with a 3 year old!

A large 100+ flock of skylark on fields just off Moss Lane going towards Glaze Brook

Also a few fieldfare and redwing knocking about.

Distant skien of 80+ Pink Footed Geese heading Eastish

Trustingly left my lads pushchair next to the gates of the reserve and am happy to say it was still there on our return!



-- Edited by Rick Hall on Saturday 9th of November 2024 08:49:28 PM



Hi Rick, it was me and Chris Chandler that saw you at the reserve entrance, we should have introduced ourselves.

Not many birds around at the east end but we had a distant Merlin near the western pools tussling with an immature Marsh Harrier as well as great views of the White-fronted Geese from the northern perimeter path. A guy came through on a pushbike and the geese didn't flush as we expected, but scuttled away on the ground in amusing fashion. They were a GM tick for us too



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Took my lads to see the geese today and ended up doing a full circuit Little Woolden Moss and along the Glaze.

10 Greenland White Fronted Geese in field 56 (we didn't use the path to North of that field!!) - GM Lifer

Large mixed flock of chaffinch, linnet, reed bunting, AN Others. Hard to spend time trying to identify them with a 3 year old!

A large 100+ flock of skylark on fields just off Moss Lane going towards Glaze Brook

Also a few fieldfare and redwing knocking about.

Distant skien of 80+ Pink Footed Geese heading Eastish

Trustingly left my lads pushchair next to the gates of the reserve and am happy to say it was still there on our return!



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Chat Moss

30 Pink-Footed Geese Flying east @ 0946

26 Fieldfare flying SE @ 0950

5 Snipe

Astley Moss

2 Bullfinch

170 Black-Headed Gull

55 Redwing

198 Lapwing

2 Raven @ 1118

5 Chaffinch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

46 Fieldfare

1 Woodcock

4 Reed Bunting

1 Snipe

 



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The 10 White Fronted geese still present in the usual field at 3pm today although they were not too happy with a few observers who were trying to get better pictures/views by walking along the northern edge of the fiepd. There is absolutely no need to use the path north from the reserve to watch these birds. A single Pink footed goose flew north then back south and looked to land on the reserve pools

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The ten Greenland White-Fronted Geese back in field 56 North of Little Woolden Moss at 11.30 today and still there at 1.15 when I left.



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The ten Greenland White-fronted Geese still present around Little Woolden Moss this morning. Were on field 56 at 10am then moved slightly west before being flushed by a tractor and appeared to land around the west pools on Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

Info thanks to Dave Steel



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Irlam Moss

1 Chiffchaff in song

1 Ring-Necked Parakeet

2 Bullfinch

160 Fieldfare---Flying South @ 0842

Chat Moss

3 Skylark

3 Linnet

1 Yellowhammer

26 Redwing 

1 Kingfisher

1 Grey wagtail

6 Meadow Pipit

4 Snipe

36 Mallard

4 Teal

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Lesser Redpoll

3 Snipe

1 Great White Egret Flying East @ noon

10 White Fronted Geese rose from a pool in the centre of the reserve and headed over to Little Woolden Moss

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Peregrine...actively hunting

5 Snipe

1 Golden Plover Flew over @ 1052

10 Reed Bunting

4 Redwing

2 Fieldfare

1 Golden Plover Flew over @ 1210

Irlam Moss

230 Starling

Cadishead Moss

4 Grey Partridge

 

 



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Apart from the geese in f56 biggrin

Possible Ring Ousel F in the central area of f42 -seen briefly on the ground with a Mistle Thrush feeding nearby, then flew to the lone hawthorn in the field division on Astley Road side but couldn't be relocated.

Single Fieldfare flew from f17 across Twelve Yards Road into trees along f18, then later NE towards 61

C 200 corvids, mostly Jackdaws with a few Carrion Crows in NE corner of f14, with a flock of Feral Pigeons, c 20 Starlings and minimum 6 Linnets, but very flighty, possibly because of the slowly advancing detectorists and gradually departed south onto Irlam Moss f12 and beyond. Also at least 1 Skylark (singing) in the field.

Mr Tymon's Raven south from f56 over LWTNR

On/around the Nature Reserve
Kestrel 2 F/imm along the eastern tree line.
Bullfinch 1 heard and flight view silhouette along the track heading to the west end
Black-headed Gull 10 west end pools
Mute Swan 1 immature ditto 13.50 but flew towards the Glaze around 14.05 (maybe flushed by the smelly model plane!)
Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Blackbird, Wren, Robin, Carrion Crows, Wood Pigeon.

Skylark 1 singing over fields to west on the nature reserve

Collared Dove 10, in pairs f39 between Little Haven and Birch Tree Farm, Pied Wagtail.

Common Gull c200, 1 Common Buzzard 3 male Pheasants f30/34

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Little Woolden Moss and the Glaze

14 Teal

2 Greylag Geese

160 Pink-Footed Geese flying West @ 1210

32 Pink-Footed Geese Flying SE @ 1225

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

17 Pink-Footed Geese Flying East @ 0932

2 Marsh Harrier

1 Stonechat

20 Teal

3 Snipe

1 Peregrine....male @ 1057

1 Merlin...Male Perched (for at least three quarters of an hour) betwixt 2 Birch trees and scanning constantly for prey which may elude him as day on day the 'day to day' birds thin out to nought it appears to me...oh how our birdlife is on the edge....and the UK countryside and its insecticide drenched 'Farmland' shun the needs of the wild...

12 Redwing

1 Chiffchaff



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The 10 Greenland White-Fronted Geese still present in same field North of Little Wooldon Moss at 13.30 today ,although they were spooked 3 times by various fly over planes etc they soon returned to the same area .



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Barton Moss

10 Mistle Thrush

60 Chaffinch

40 Fieldfare

45 Linnet

26 Redwing

1 Yellowhammer

2 Willow Tit

2 Goldcrest

2 Stonechat

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

140 Pink-Footed Geese Flying South @ 1248

1 Marsh Harrier

 



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Irlam Moss

90 Starling

13 Pied Wagtail

31 Meadow Pipit

1 Marsh Harrier

135 Pink-Footed Geese

15 Skylark

1 Lesser Redpoll

Chat Moss

180 Redwing

85 Starling

13 Mistle Thrush

 



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Irlam Moss

12 Pied Wagtail

1 Nuthatch

Chat Moss

26 Stock Dove

240 Jackdaw

70 Pink-Footed Geese

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Marsh Harrier.

 

 



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The 10 Greenland White-fronted Geese still in f56 late afternoon until 16.56 when they flew off west

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10 Greenland white-fronted geese still field 56 north of Little Woolden Moss. 

 



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Just found the 'missing' 2, inc. tagged bird.

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Still 8 white-fronted geese on view this morning, looking settled, even after low-flying helicopter went over. Same field as yesterday. None of the 8 have a tag.

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Monday 4th Nov

Apart from the 10 very flighty Greenland White Fronted Geese noted below, 2 Buzzards, 1 Peregrine (juv) sat in a field. Also 3 Fieldfare & ~35 Redwing in treetops halfway between River Glaze & LWM. And a huge female Sparrowhawk tried to grab some passerines near there



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Little Woolden Moss 11:30 - 13:00.

Thirty Canada geese and c.50 teal on the Glaze by Little Woolden Hall, also a flock of a dozen stock doves over. Five minutes after comparing empty notebooks with a chap by the Eastern pools I had within a couple of minutes a male kestrel, a snipe and an immature female peregrine fly overhead at tree height. I hope he got the great egret he was going looking for. Another kestrel, a female, was mobbing a buzzard in a tree in the field next to the one with the Greenland white-fronts, six of which were showing very nicely.

Chat Moss 13:00 - 14:25.

3 buzzards, two immature kestrels + the male seen earlier on LWM; about fifty fieldfares over; a flock of thirty-odd stock doves with two dozen carrion crows by Twelve Yards Road; mixed tit flocks at Four Lanes End and on Cutnook Lane both including goldcrests, chiffchaff on Cutnook Lane; just one skylark, no mipits and just a handful of linnets; a couple of dozen pied wagtails with the sheep grazing at the bottom of Cutnook Lane near the motorway.



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Thanks for the information, both.

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After being disturbed at LWM the 10 Greenland White-Fronted Geese, landed for a short while south of Holcroft Lane Then I watched them from the summit at Silver Lane landfill flying across the area south of LWM towards Irlam at 15.01. They were lost in the mist as they turned South in that area so could have landed. 

Last shot below ignore the exif time as my camera clock cannot be adjusted due to a fault it was 15.01 



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Thanks for the information Steve. Really interesting to find that out. 



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I didn't notice an obvious juvenile. I guess there could have been a heads-down juvenile in there but my impression was they were all adults. I haven't got a photo of all 10 but every group photo I took shows adults. Chris's photo below has 6 adults together and the neck-collared individual makes it 7.
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The neck collared bird X6Y was ringed as an adult female at Hvanneyri, Western Iceland on 25/9/2016. Information thanks to Prof Tony Fox.

He has asked if there were any juvenile birds in the flock.

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04/11/24. The flock of 10 Greenland White-fronted Geese returned to the same field and included a neck-ringed individual (X6Y)

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Thanks for the heads up. The 10 Greenland White Fronted Geese were still present at 10:45 just North of the reserve on field 56. Couple of shots attached. One had a neck collar on. 

Also Marsh Harrier, 16 Skylark and 100 Redwing over.



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Little Woolden Moss - late afternoon

A flock of 10 Greenland White-fronted Geese feeding in the stubble field immediately north of LWT reserve seen from reserve path. Most likely the flock seen over Woolston Eyes recently so they have probably been hiding on the local mosslands somewhere. Light was poor and fading fast but I managed a few poor phone photos through my binoculars. A GM first for me. Unfortunately the flock was spooked by fireworks and flew off east at 4.56pm

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Irlam Moss

25 Pink-Footed Geese Flying South @ 0901

35 Pink-Footed Geese Flying South @ 0904

Chat Moss

8 Herring Gull flying North

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

40 Redwing flying West @ 1005

4 Snipe

60 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West @ 1250

8 Grey Partridge

1 Marsh Harrier---Attacked by Carrion Crows...which the MH brushed off with aplomb....

Little Woolden Moss (This being FN56/57/64)

7 Grey Partridge

65 Skylark

70 Starling

90 Redwing

16 Fieldfare

1 Yellowhammer

 

 



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