As per my River Iwrell posting, 1 on the path/bank of the Irwell between Broughton Road bridge and the Adelphi foot bridge in Salford. With some Canada geese but ok with close approach (<10').
Romiley: at 2:35; 34 came from the SE heading NNW. About 1 minute later, another flock of c180 came from a more easterly direction, going west. Both skeins were very low due to the low cloud base.
Interesting.....a similar flock size and direction to where I then saw a Skein @2.38 (*draw Romily to Newton-le Willows and it is spot on both our vectors). I've timestamp of my narrative on the cars Crash Cam so I'm pretty 100% on my data. 430 mph would have been required by the geese to get from Romily to Newton-le-Willows in that time. As I failed to persuade anyone on a 60 mph Lapwing once I ain't going to claim this as the same flock obviously but interestingly they were also low due to cloud - going to roost somewhere one the Lancashire Mosses / estuaries?
Romiley: at 2:35; 34 came from the SE heading NNW. About 1 minute later, another flock of c180 came from a more easterly direction, going west. Both skeins were very low due to the low cloud base.
390 in three loose skeins (counted from photographs) flying east over Turn Moss (Stretford) and Chorlton at 11.01 today 17th Heard from my Chorlton flat at 09.34 today 17th c180 east over Turn Moss, Stretford, at 16.54 yesterday 16th
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Yesterday ( Friday afternoon 25.11.23 ) c160 seen flying from North to South and dropping down out of view in the distance probably somewhere in Carrington/Warburton farm fields. Also another c60 flying from South to North disappearing into a similar area. All seen from field 2 Carrington Moss.