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63 Mute Swans 7 Goosanders Mandarin and a flock of Long Tailed Tits.

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63 Mute Swans, one other juv dead in lake with a lot of feathers around the bank. Male Goosander, 2 Goldcrest, Coal Tit and Treecreeper aroundthe Fir Trees, and a small flock of Redwings

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67 Mute Swans, Heron, Pochard Male, Wigeon female, 5 Goosander two were successful catching fish, 2 Treecreepers, 2 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, and a Cormorant.

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Sorry, the posting below should have specified the date as Saturday 23/11/2013.

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First ever visit here 12.07 to 14.25. - (walked the pools and boardwalk sections only):

Great creasted grebe - 1
Cormorant - 1
Grey heron - 2
Canada geese - approx 75,
Mute swan - min. 60
Mallard - many
Tufted duck - approx 40
Goosander - 13 (5 obvious ad.males; 1/2 1st cal. yr. males; 5/6 females)
Coot- many
Moorhen - 6/7
Mandarin - 1 drake
Lesser black-backed gull - 1
Common gull - 5
Black-headed gull - approx 200
Feral pigeons - present
Few passerines about, though Pied wagtail (2), Dunnocks, Blackbirds, Songthrush (3), Robins, Blue tit, Magies, Carrion crows, with Wrens, (as "heard only").

- A pleasant change and big improvement on the toxic Chromium waste tip which I used to drive past here during the 1960 s!




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5 Goosander, 65 Mute Swans, Great Crested Grebe, Cormorant, Mandarin Duck, Heron, Pied Wagtail, Grey wagtail . Long-tailed Tits, Coal tits, Treecreeper, Goldfinches Close up view of a Redwing, two Dippers moving up and down the river and four rabbits.

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 22nd of November 2013 09:32:41 AM

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60 Mute Swans 7 Goosander, 8 Teal 2 Wigeon, 2 Pied Wagtail 2 Cormorant, 2 Heron, ots of Blue Tits and at least 2 Goldcrest.

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8 Goosander (2m) Pied Wagtails, Mandarin, Cormorant, Heron 67 Mute Swans, Pair of Bullfinches, flock of Lon-Tailed Tits, fighting Hedge Sparrows, Singing Blackbird, Coal Tit, and fly over Raven

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66 Mute Swans many being chasede by someones alsatian, two flocks of Redwings, Male Mandarin and 1 Goosander.

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67 Mute Swans Over 50 Tufted Ducks, Treecreeper, Male Gadwall. Female Goosander, Redwing, Pied Wagtail, Heron Cormorant and some Goldfinches.,

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 02:06:54 PM

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Male Sparrowhawk being chased by a Carron Crow, Cormorant, Goosander, Heron 63, Mute Swans, lots of Great Tits and several flocks of long-tailed Tits.

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 1st of November 2013 10:31:55 AM

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Friday 1st of November 2013 02:58:31 PM

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Wigeon, Goosander, Cormorant, Heron, pied Wagtail, Flock of Long Tailed Tits 76 Mute Swans. (One found dead by the groundsman this morning and the subdued Swan ZZ 5475 seen last week looking more ill, bedraggled and being bullied by another Swan until they were seperated via the insertion of a golfing brolly)

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Goosander, Male Mandarin with blue ring, Dipper Heron Pied Wagtails 70-Mute Swans one looking quite subdued and more usual characters

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Friday 25th of October 2013 09:44:58 AM

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7 Goosander 70 Mute Swans, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 18 Robins, Collared Dove, Heron, Cormorant, Pied Wagtails, Jackdaw, Carrion Crows, Long Tailed Tit, Coal Tit, and 1 Redwing

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Fairly quite 71 Swans, Great Crested Grebes, Heron, several ringed coots, Long Tailed Tits, GoldFinches and a Treecreeper.

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Three or Four Wigeon, Sparrowhawk chasing Carrion Crown, 69 Mute Swans, 65 Tufted Ducks 2 Great Crested Grebes Flocks of Log Tailed Tits and Goldfinch, a Heron, and a Grey and several Pied Wagtail.

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Among all the usual birds there was a female Mandarin Duck on the angling lodge at Crompton Lodges at 2.30pm today. It was a bit skulky, hiding under the overhanging trees and shrubs at the car park end of the lodge.

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49 Tufted ducks 68 Mute Swan, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Jay, Sparrowhawk, 2 Goosander, Pied Wagtail, 2 Cormorant and a large flock of Long Tailed Tits

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61 Tufted Ducks 76 Mute swans, 2 Great Crested Grebes, 6 Swallows, Raven over, Cormorant, pied wagtail, and treecreeper near the boardwalk.

Although Mute Swans are reducing some are still arriving like KB6 and W21736 both new records for moses

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Wednesday 18th of September 2013 08:43:39 PM

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41 Tufted Ducks, 85 Mute Swans, 2 Great Crested Grebes, Pied Wagtails, Heron , 2 Cormorant, heard Nuthatch in carpark area and Treecreeper swallows and Kestrel

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Mute Swan ZY 6042 was seen at Heaton Park Boating lake with one other Adult and a young Cygnet on Saturday. It was also seen here at Moses Gate 31/07/2013 presumably while the other was still looking after the family at Heaton Park. Not seen at Moses before or since and could indicate breeding pairs are quite mobile and individual. The other one of the 'pair' was ZY2235 Darvic ring VN4 so ZY 6042 could be a previous cygnet. There were no other Swans on the boating lake.

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Monday 9th of September 2013 10:35:30 PM

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31 Tufted Ducks(rather more than last time) , 85 Mute Swans (rather less than last time) , 2 Great Crested Grebes, Pied and Grey Wagtails, Heron , Cormorant, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Blackcap, Sand Martins and 16 Thrushes mobbing a male Sparrowhawk

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Wednesday 4th of September 2013 11:56:42 AM

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 4th of September 2013 12:35:24 PM

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93 mute swans, 23 tufted ducks 2 great crested grebes, nuthatch far side of main lodge, heron, and great spotted woodpecker. Bird Hide closed for some time.

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94 Mute Swans, 20 Tufted Duck Heron, 3 Great Crested Grebe, Bullfinch Jay and a Common Tern

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94 mute swans, 9 tufted duck, great crested grebe, common gull, common tern, grey wagtail sand martin, house martin and swallow.

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 16th of August 2013 04:28:09 PM

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95 Mute Swans. 19 Tufted Duck, 4 Common Tern (3 Adult and one Juv being fed) Heron, Female and Juvenile Sparrowhawk

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93 Mute Swans, 12 Tufted Ducks, 3 Great Crested Grebe (The nest of a pair of these that they were sitting on last week has been destroyed) 2 Common Terns, Family of Blackcaps, Heron, 2 Jays, the Coot nesting in the life buoy aslo has failed, and Nutharch near closed bird hide.

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Very Hot Noon 89 Mute Swans Great Crested Grebes, Heron, Common whitethroat, Chiffchaff, blackcap, Tufted Duck, Sparrow Hawk. I've been recording mute Swan rings over the last 3 months picture emerging is that the consistent 80 plus swans is made up of a regular bunch and a proportion of visiting Swans one at least appears to be from cheshire. The records will be submitted at the end of the year.

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91 Mute swans, 3 Great Crested Grebes, Tufted Duck, Chiffchaff, Blackcaps, Heron, Swallow, House and Sand Martin, Nuthatch arund hide and a group of fledged Goldcrest.

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Tuesday 9th of July 2013 11:04:47 AM

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 9th of July 2013 02:20:19 PM

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not much 90 Mute Swans Chiffchaff Blackcap Great Crested Grebes and a Common Tern

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92 Nute swan 5 unringed. Coot sitting on a nest on a floating lifebuoy that some one threw in the lodge months ago. Blackcal Herons, 3 common Tern, Swift, Swallow, House & Sand martin and a Great Crested Grebe

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Really good trudge about but few rewards from the birds only Oyster Catcher, Common Tern Lesser Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail, and dipper as well a usuals

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86 Adult Mute Swans, Second pair of Swans on a nest apear to have sadly failed to produce cygnets, cry
Great Crested Grebes, families of Long and Great Tits, Swallows Pied Wagtail Heron, Common Tern and 3 families of Canada Geese

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89 adult mute swans (2 with cygnets on river absent) 3 common tern , Great Crested Grebe, Jay, Blackcap, Swallow, Sand Martin, Swift, and surprised a Buzzard perched on one of the bridges in the wood on the board walk eating a Rabbit. Didn't budge for 20 seconds 30 metres away. Then flew off.

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91 adult mute swans (Pair on River appeared today with 5 cygnets) , 3 Great Crested Grebe, Blackcap Chiffchaff, Oystercatcher Common Tern, Herring Gull Coal tit & Hide open 8.30


-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 11th of June 2013 11:44:15 AM

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89 adult mute swans, Great Crested Grebe, Swift, Blackcap Heron, Chiffchaff, Pied Wagtail and family of Long Tailed Tits. Bird Hide Closed



-- Edited by Ian Boote on Monday 10th of June 2013 11:34:13 AM

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85 adult mute swans, Great Crested Grebe, 2 Tufted Ducks, Swift, Family of Swans with two cygnets, family of Blue Tits fleged, Blackcaps one within 10 feet. Heron, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail Pied Wagtail.

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Tuesday 4th of June 2013 02:32:30 PM

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77 Mute Swan, Pair of Tufted Ducks, Swifts Swallows, Pied Wagtail, Chiffchaff and Blackcap

Also in Bolton the whole ranger service faces the axe as the extract from consultation states

'With regards to parks and open spaces, the council is proposing the closure of Animal World. Following earlier proposals to close Animal World, an action group was formed by local residents and it was agreed to introduce a charge for visitors and to increase volunteering with a view to reducing the cost of the facility. This has had some success and generated a small amount of income towards the running of the butterfly house.

However, the facility still costs the council £80,000 a year to run and the council does not feel it can be retained at the expense of further reductions in cleansing, grass cutting and other essential services.

The council is also proposing the removal of all Ranger posts in the parks. Whilst the Rangers provide a range of services to the public, if these posts were retained, further reductions in cleanliness would be required.'


-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 2nd of October 2013 09:27:50 AM

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81 Mute Swan. The highest I have counted. 2 Common Tern, Male Goosander river, Jay, 2 Blackcap singing Song Thrush singing, quite a few Swallow Swift, and Heron. The Cheshire ringed swan appears to have bonded with a local scally with lots of displays

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No Tufted Ducks at all. Whether this is to do with the four territories set up by mute swans is unknown but there are some big Swans chasing other swans, canada geese and other water fowl. Other things 67 Mute Swans one with a Cheshire Tag. Lots of blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Common Whitethroat, Swallow & 1 Treecreeper

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Tuesday 7th of May 2013 10:27:20 AM

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73 Swans quite a few displaying aggressive territorial behaviour , 1 Tufted Duck bid exodus of these, 2 herring 1 common gull pied wagtail willow warbler and singing blackcap

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73 Mute Swans 13 Tufted Ducks, Great Crested Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Common Gull, 2 Blackcaps 2 Willow Warbler, Treecreeper. Also took some of ther ring number on the Swans and sent them to the NWSS Project and received the following info
Swan Number Date Ringed Location
ZY1788 2+ F 23/12/2009 Rhodes Lodges Middleton Gtr. Manchester SD858052
ZY5166 0 M 15/01/2011 Bury Lido Gtr. Manchester SD810124
ZY5198 0 F 24/09/2011 Clegg Hall Pools Rochdale Gtr. Manchester SD919147
ZY6020 0 F 16/10/2011 Crompton Lodges Farnworth Gtr. Manchester SD742067
ZY6021 0 16/10/2011 Crompton Lodges Farnworth Gtr. Manchester SD742067
ZY6075 0 F 10/02/2012 Crompton Lodges Farnworth Gtr. Manchester SD742067
ZY6076 0 11/02/2012 Elton Bury Gtr. Manchester SD790095


-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 30th of April 2013 09:59:39 AM

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63 Mute swans 35 Tufted, 2 Chiffchaff 3 Willow Warbler 4 Blackcaps, Swallows, a Sand Martin, Treecreeper, Jay, and Coal Tit

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 26th of April 2013 12:45:23 PM

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74 Mute swans 40 Tufted, 1 Chiffchaff 3 Willow Warbler 5 Blackcaps and a dipper

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Today 58 Mute Swans 36 Tufted duck, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Lesser Redpoll, Blackcap, 1 Swallow, Oystercatcher, Female Sparrowhawk, & 2 Greylag Geese dropped in

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 15th of April 2013 09:49:22 AM

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50 Mute Swan 38 Tufted ducks 2 Great Crested Grebes, Common Gulls pair of Treecreepers 2 Goldcrest., 2 Redwing, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler seen singing away, fly over Lapwing.


-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 12th of April 2013 11:24:10 AM

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54 Mute Swan 32 Tufted seems the coots have duffed up the Great Crested Grebes, Heron, two Male Goosander and very close up views of a Treecreeper.

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Bright morning

62 Mute Swan, 40 Tufted Duck, Common Gull Herring Gull, Pair of Shovelers, Male Goosander, pair Sparrow hawks, Gold Crest around board walk, Gold Crest and Tree Creeper on River, Pied Wagtail, two fly over Lapwings, Goldfinches flock of Long Tailed Tits usuals


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57 Mute Swans 64 Tufted Duck, 1 Goosander fem back lodge pair on river, Shoveler male lodge, 2 Great Crested Grebes, Herring Gull, long tailed Tits, Goldfinches, Coal Tit Bullfinch and Singing Goldcrest in a pine tree


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Cold River in part frozen. 64 Mute Swans 72 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebes, House Sparrow, long tailed Tits, Goldfinches, 2 Magpie nest building Male Goosander and Butterbur in flower

-- Edited by Ian Boote on Tuesday 12th of March 2013 01:28:36 PM

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