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An evening stroll around the deer park produced excellent views of a Green Woodpecker, plus another bird calling. 2 singing Chiffchaff and a Willow Warbler were also noted.

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Took a bird walk yesterday morning with some success, but the park was a bit quiet. Had 27 on the walk and the weather was sunny.
2 grey heron
6 Treecreeper including one juvenile
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker heard
3-4 Nuthatch
1 Kingfisher
1 Little Grebe

After the walk a Tawny Owl and 1 young Owlet was found in the North Park and we got good but brief views of the Adult

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Good views of a Green Woodpecker were the highlight of an evenings stroll through the Deer Park earlier.

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Female Mandarin with seven ducklings on the Bollin upstream of the weir near to Bollington Mill flats.

Information thanks to John Barber.

 



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Afternoon Walk 4-5pm but park still very busy. Not much Woodpecker activity but ....
Spotted Flycatcher (1) - next to island pond .... and a couple of treecreeper nearby.
Chris

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Late post for yesterday .Birds seen as follows
blackbird
wood pigeon
carrion crow
jackdaw
mute swan
green woodpecker
moorhen
mallard
magpie
Canada goose
jay
tufted duck
robin
swallow
house martin
raven
starling
garden warbler
It was fascinating watching the jackdaws sitting on the
backs of the Fallow Deer pulling out their fur to use as
nesting material.

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Pair of Gadwall on the island pool.
Pair of Mandarin on the river, then flew over the park, then came back and landed in the field between the oxbows and the footpath.
Grey Wagtail below the footbridge over the river.



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a short visit from 4.15pm was worth while...

1 wheatear, near the deer barn
1 green woodpecker
3 swallows, over
2 chiffchaff
1 willow warbler
1 buzzard
1 tawny owl
4 mandarin just outside the deer park on the river.

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Yesterday Mon 27th 4pm ish.

A Kingfisher on the oxbow viewed from the obelisk was beating a fish on a twig - initially calling, so perhaps more than one bird present.
Up to 3 Buzzard high over circling.
No sign of the Tawnies in their roost hole but a Wren did sound the alarm as it passed over it so maybe there's a female in there with chicks?...
17 Tufties versus 15 Mallard on the Moat Pool (i can still remember my excitement when the first Tuftie turned up there in the early 80's).
A gorgeous Tawny Mining Bee digging a hole for a nest.
One Redwing between the obelisk and the watermill.

In the fields near the park towards the Crematorium a Lapwing was displaying and 5 Buzzards circling together.



-- Edited by Mike Duckham on Wednesday 29th of March 2017 01:14:57 PM

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A day off work and an early start in beautiful conditions saw me on Dunham Forest Golf Club at around 7am. Lots of the usual birds around, but I was quite surprised to see 3 Mandarins flying through the wooded area off towards Altrincham. On the deer park there were 4-5 more in the trees around the Obelisk. They roost in trees I believe, I haven't been early enough to see them before I suppose. The call/quack was interesting, a bit more goose-like than many ducks I have heard before.

Also of note a lovely pale-phase Buzzard that I happened upon on the golf course, perched low on a dead tree. What a handsome creature, later seen gliding around with a couple of others.

All in all a splendid morning and well worth a day of holiday, always nice when the days off land on decent birding weather.

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Excellent 3 hours spent today with Malcolm, saw all the target birds including Great Spotted and Green Woodpeckers, Treecreeper and Nuthatch.
Cheers Ian

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A pleasant mooch around the Deer Park and Dunham Forest Golf Club this morning with Chris Chandler.

All the usual birds showing well, stacks of Nuthatch and Great Spotted Woodpecker being noisy and obvious. I saw a Green Woodpecker on the golf course which Chris missed, and we both saw 1 in the Deer Park, and Chris spotted a second in the park. Heard a couple more too. We were also pleased to see 4 Redpoll in the park, always nice to see these pretty little finches. 2 Buzzards showed well over the woods on the golf course.



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19th feb 8-12pm.

golf course...

green woodpecker, heard only
7 great spotted woodpeckers
11 nuthatch
5 goldcrest
2 buzzard
3 jay
9 siskin
several redwings, song thrush & stock doves around.
plus all the usuals.

deer park...

1 green woodpecker, more heard
5 great spotted woodpeckers
lots of nuthatch around
2 treecreeper
2 goldcrest
2 jay
1 buzzard
1 snipe, on stream just over Bollington gate
2 skylarks, over
1 little grebe
9 tufted duck
5 teal
again several redwings, song thrush & stock doves around. few fieldfares over
plus all the usuals. was not sure where to put this but as it says "dunham massey area" in the title, I had a little walk along the trans pennine trail at dunham massey & there was 15 pink footed geese in the fields just west of barns lane, also 11 yellowhammers, 7 lesser redpoll.

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A walk through Dunham Forrest /Golf course from Bradgate rd. to the NT Deer park 7.20am - 12pm.
Lots of Tits , Chaffinch and Blackbirds about in the woods also -
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1.
Nuthatch 1.
Common Buzzard 3. ( interacting with each other near the club house, just a few feet off the ground).
NT park -
Lots of Jackdaw , with two in the same tree with nest material.
Nuthatch 2. (Lots more heard )
Treecreeper 2.
Snipe 3. on stream near the mill.
Little grebe 1. on the island pool.
Redwing 6.
Mistle Thrush 5.
Ps. No Green woodpecker seen in the park but 2 heard (always distant ) , until I spooked 2 on the way back on the golf course. Also 7 Great spotted woodpecker seen in the park lots more heard .

-- Edited by phillipskelly on Tuesday 14th of February 2017 04:11:30 PM

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8.10-12pm lots of activity around the deer park this morning.

2 green woodpecker, more heard
12+ great spotted woodpeckers
14+ nuthatch
4 treecreeper
4 goldcrest
8 siskin amongst a flock of goldfinch
2 jay
18+ stock doves
10+ song thrushes
3 mistle thrush
lots of redwings around singing
1 grey heron
1 buzzard
19 teal
14 tufted duck
2 skeins of pink-footed goose, 61 & 131, both heading north west.
plus all the usuals around.

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Dropped in this afternoon to have a look around the park. 

Highlights were 3 Green Woodpeckers 2 Nuthatch and 1 Goldcrest. In a plowed field just outside the park near the scout camp there were 50 Lapwings 50 Black-headed Gulls and 8 Common Gulls. 



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The deer park was quiet (bird-wise) again today with just Nuthatch and Goldcrest of note. Two Teal stood on the ice on the frozen Island Pool

The field adjacent to the path from the park to the Bollin held at least two Snipe and a Buzzard.

A Grey Wagtail was at the footbridge over the Bollin.

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On duty today from 12 to 3pm. A quiet day bird wise due to the huge number of visitors today. Highlights were:

20+ Great Tit feeding among the Beech mast on Langham Grove
10+ Long Tailed Tit
1 Coal Tit
3 Shoveler 1m 2f on Island Pool
100+ Black Headed Gulls throughout the park

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A single Green Woodpecker, two Great spotted, a couple of Nuthatch and a dozen Goldcrest in a walk through the park today. As per Ann, no winter thrushes or finch flocks.

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A Egret seen on stream no bins with me so could not tell which spices it was



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Helping out with the midday Bird Walk in the Park today, 25 participants, and with the poor light we had to work hard to see the birds. Notably, no winter thrushes or finches but a good count of common woodland birds.

Moat: Goosanders,3m 4f, 5 Tufted duck, Coot, mallard, Black-headed gulls, 2 Canada Geese.

Smithy Pool: pair of Gadwall, Moorhens

Park: Jackdaws, Rooks, Crows, Magpie, 2 Jays. Goldcrest, Long-tailed tits, Blue tit, Great Tit, Coal Tits, Tree creeper. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch. 2 Grey heron. Robin, Blackbird.

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Tawny Owl - 2 roosting together
Raven - pair over WNW ish
Fieldfare - 9 over east ish
Redwing - 45 over east ish
Dunnock and Treecreeper singing.
Goosander - 1 male 15 feet away in the arm of the moat right by the courtyard, furtling in the submerged leaves. Retreated when i appeared, but soon moved back.
I found myself wondering if the NT puts up nestboxes anywhere?



-- Edited by Mike Duckham on Sunday 27th of November 2016 12:38:51 PM

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A quick walk round the park this afternoon - noted 4 male and 2 female Goosanders on the moat.



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8 Goosander on the moat yesterday, around 3pm - 4 males and 4 females.

Also good numbers of tufted duck, black headed gull, canada geese and mallards.

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On duty yesterday from 12.20 to 15.30 and saw some winter visitors

1m 2f Goosander on moat
also large numbers of Black headed Gulls (including many juvenile) on moat and Smithy pool

Langham Grove
1f Grey Wagtail
2 raven
1 Jay

Island pool
1f 1m Shoveler
2 Little Grebe

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A pleasant walk around the gardens this afternoon plenty of woodland birds

Highlight as we stood by the lake in front of the house was a Kingfisher

Also at least 25 Pied wagtails around the house



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Green sandpiper showing in ditch at 2 30. Could not be seen from the stile only from banking inside the park.
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Walking along the path from the Park to the Bollin, a Green Sandpiper called loudly overhead before flying down into the ditch in the field, where it could then be viewed from the stile into the Park.



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On duty again yesterday from 1.00 - 5.00pm

The weather was atrocious with heavy rain for most of the time but at the end there was a brief clear spell where there was some activity.

I saw my first Spotted Flycatcher for five years here along Main Drive near the Slaughterhouse. This used to be a breeding species about 8 years ago but this was only my second sighting since then. This was obviously an autumn migrant but was great to see again in the park.

Also seen was a mixed flock of what seemed to be Juvenile Chiffchaff, Coal Tits and Nuthatch.

It looks like the three Cygnets have faired better than the other two and survived to a decent enough size not to be taken by Mink as the first two were. The Rangers have caught three Mink and are hoping that's the lot.


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On duty this afternoon from 1 to 5 pm.

Rather wet with not too much about with the exception of :

4 Green Woodpecker by deer barn 2f 1m 1juv
2 Grey Heron
1 Stock Dove
3 juvenile Great Tit
30+ Black Headed Gulls including 10 + Juvenile on moat

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Goldcrest, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Treecreeper, Buzzard, Heron, and Nuthatch. 



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Doc Brewster wrote:
sid ashton wrote:

I have not been able to get into the park for a few weeks so it was a nice surprise this morning to see the five well grown Mute Swan cygnets on Smithy Pool.

I was able to read the leg ring on the adult male, it was silver in colour and coded ZZ8049.  I have tried to find where it was ringed but with no joy, - anyone know the location please?

 


 I'm assuming that it didn't have a Darvic ring, Sid?

(p.s. thanks so much for your call regarding my car accident, very kind & much appreciated smile )


  Paul the Swan was ringed as an adult in Dunham Massey Park in November 2013.



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sid ashton wrote:

I have not been able to get into the park for a few weeks so it was a nice surprise this morning to see the five well grown Mute Swan cygnets on Smithy Pool.

I was able to read the leg ring on the adult male, it was silver in colour and coded ZZ8049.  I have tried to find where it was ringed but with no joy, - anyone know the location please?



-- Edited by sid ashton on Sunday 19th of June 2016 04:32:10 PM


 I'm assuming that it didn't have a Darvic ring, Sid?

(p.s. thanks so much for your call regarding my car accident, very kind & much appreciated smile )



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I have not been able to get into the park for a few weeks so it was a nice surprise this morning to see the five well grown Mute Swan cygnets on Smithy Pool.

I was able to read the leg ring on the adult male, it was silver in colour and coded ZZ8049.  I have tried to find where it was ringed but with no joy, - anyone know the location please?



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John Barber reported two Hobbies over the Bollin, near the oxbow early afternoon.



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Brood of Mallard on Island Pool, and drake Gadwall here.  One of the heron nests contains 3 quite well-grown young. Several Stock Doves were singing and display-flighting.  Reed Buntings singing on both Island and Smithy Pools.

Highlight was a White Wagtail on Bollington flood, initially seen from the stile, two male and one female Pied were nearby.



-- Edited by Mike Duckham on Sunday 17th of April 2016 07:26:43 AM

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Little Grebe calling on Island Pool, 2 - 3 Stock Doves singing, at least 3 Green Woodpeckers yaffling, Siskin over, and young Grey Herons being fed in the nest in the deer-only area on the southern side of the park. 



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Family visit this afternoon. Plenty of yaffling going on around the woods from at least three different birds. I managed to get good views of two of them as well. Strangely though I didn't see any Great Spotted Woodpeckers. 



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Took a bird walk this morning in the pouring rain. Thankfully the birds were obliging.

3 Green Woodpecker seen and 4 heard
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
2 Oystercatcher still present on flooded field
2 Grey Wagtail flycatching on island pool
6 Nuthatch
1 chiffchaff seen and 1 heard
2 Song Thrush




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Highlights this afternoon included:

-2 Oystercatcher (in flooded field)
-1 Green Woodpecker
-2 Nuthatch
-2 Treecreeper
-1 Buzzard
-20+ Tufted Duck
-2 Grey Wagtails
-Chiffchaff heard

Plus plenty usuals.

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Heard my first singing Chiffchaff for this year, in the garden behind the orangery yesterday.



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Dunham Golf Course and Woods -
Treecreeper 3.
Great Spotted woodpecker 1.
Redwing 6.
Coal tit 2.
Goldcrest 3.
Common Buzzard 2.
Jay 2.
Greenfinch 2.
Nuthatch 2.
Mistle Thrush 1.

Deer Park -
Green Woodpecker ... 5 seen in different locations but because they were very mobile and vocal , I susspect there were only 2 , maybe 3 birds.
I gave the ant-hills at the deer barn a good look , but nothing there so I went towards the slaughter house . Sitting on a tree stump , I heard one behind me .... it was having "a bit of do !" with a Great Spotted Woodpecker . Another landed in a Beech tree next to me (I had to check to see if Steve Burke was behind me). I saw 2 more on the way to the Obelisk and 1 repeatedly at the Obelisk. Nuthatches were conspicuous with 5 seen.
A small flock of Siskin c10 , a Grey Heron, 3 Pied Wagtail and 4 Redwing were at the Ox-Bow. Plus 2 Goldcrest.


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On a lovely spring morning in the park it was good to see several members of the forum present and to meet some new folk. It's unusual for me to see any other birders there so it made a nice change biggrin

A good selection of birds was seen including a common Buzzard flying low through the trees near the obelisk, it did this 4 times; never seen that before. Also when I first arrived I noticed a group of 8 -10 Redwings still present feeding on the ground as well as several Siskin near the oxbow. Other species of interest included Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Great Spotted Woodpecker and Green Woodpecker.

 



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On duty yesterday from 10am to 2pm

flooded field by Bollington gate
100+ Black Headed Gulls
40+ Rook

Langham Grove
50+ Redwing in trees
1 Treecreeper
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker


2 Green Woodpecker heard
1 Sparrowhawk
2 Buzzard



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A short circular walk taking in Island pool late afternoon. In addition to the usual tits and nuthatches, we saw a Green Woodpecker fly from the area of the slaughterhouse, and near the main drive were a flock of about 12 brightly marked redwing. More watchers needed at this site which I always feel should hold more birds than it appears to!

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morning visit.

golf course & forest...

1 great spotted woodpecker
5 nuthatch
2 goldcrest
2 treecreeper
2 buzzard

deer park...

2 great spotted woodpecker
3 nuthatch
3 treecreeper
2 jay
1 sparrowhawk



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on duty yesterday from 10am to 1pm

A quiet frosty day started hearing a Green Woodpecker while feeding the deer down farm walk

Bollington gate
2 Treecreeper
100+ Black Headed Gulls
1 Grey Heron
1 jackdaw with leucistic sections in its wings (we also have a Carrion Crow with the same issue)

Moat
50+ Canada Geese



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Between Dunham Town (Axe & Cleaver) & Dunham Woodhouses (Rope & Anchor) today on the Trans-Pennine Trail, there were c. 300+ Fieldfare feeding in a field of winter wheat, and a Raven towards the Dunham Woodhouses end. Also a Mistle Thrush singing away for 3 - 4 mins, and a couple of subsinging Song Thrushes.

Cheers.



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During a very quick walk around the park late on this very chilly afternoon heard the familiar si-si-si-si call of Long tailed Tits.  There was a group of twenty or so birds flitting around the coppiced trees on the grassed area in front of the house - brightened our walk considerably. 



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Took a group on a bird walk today from 11,00am to 1.00pm. Very windy but thankfully dry.
There were very few small birds about due to high winds but some water fowl made an appearance.

50+ Canada Goose on the Moat
100+ black headed Gulls and 2 Grey Heron on field by Bollington Mill

Old Mans pool
1f mandarin Duck 1m Great Spotted Woodpecker

Island Pool
1m Teal
2m Gadwall
40+ Mallard
6 Tufted Duck
1 Grey Heron

Smithy Pool
2m Gadwall
Also 1 Cormorant overhead

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