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Worsley Woods 8am - 11.30am

A Jack Snipe was amongst 40+ Common Snipe this morning on the Dam. Luckily for me a Heron landed nearby and put up the Jack and two Common snipe which flew towards me and landed in the boggy grass area in front of the cottage about 4m in front of me. I had a good view of the Jack snipe for 15 seconds before it disappeared out of view.

Also about the dam were two Kingfishers showing very well in front of the Aviary House.



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Charlotte Harrison


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Some interesting goose activity recently at the Dam.

21/02/2021 and 25/02/2021 - one single Greylag Goose accompanying the group of Canada Geese that frequent the Dam.

21/02/2021 - I believe a Greylag X Canada hybrid (picture attached)

 

Lots of Kingfisher activity also in the evenings at the moment around the Dam.



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Worsley Woods this morning.

10 Nuthatches

2 Grey wagtails

2 Kingfishers showing well on the dam whilst  fishing.

Ring-necked parakeet heard at the Roe Green end of the woods

2 Bullfinch

30+ Snipe with probably many more hidden from sight 

2 Buzzards

 



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Natalie Clarke


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A day off work + gorgeous sunny and wintery walk = happy Monday. And some rather excellent birds. Highlights;

1 x little grebe

2 x grey heron

3 x nuthatch being boisterous!

2 x male shoveler  and 1 x female

Teal

1 x grey wagtail on the Delph

2 magnificent buzzard hunting near the canal on the field. Flew very close and gave me my best view of a raptor yet!

And so nice to walk round in the week when (dare I say it) there are less people about!biggrin



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Hi All

Im currently based on a new construction site in Worsley, and just wondered where the different named woods were? I can see on OS maps the Dam, but the woods are not named. I used to spend lots of time in Worsley when I was younger and walked those areas a lot. I assume the various woods have names?

 

Sightings so far:-

Small Woods at Cricket club

Ring Necked Parrakeet

Nuthatch

Mistle Thrush

Song Thrush

Blue asnd Great Tits

Robin

Corvids

 

Cheers 



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peregrine chasing a sparrowhawk over m60 heading towards the Trafford centre



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Afternoon visit yesterday:

20 birds seen:
Feral Pigeon x 6
Wood Pigeon x 6
Collared Dove x 2
Magpie x 6
Canada Goose x 20+
Mute Swan x 3
Tufted Duck x 22
Mallard x 20
Coot x 21
Black Headed Gull x 30
Common Snipe x 11
Teal x 18
Moorhen x 2
Blackbird x 8
Robin x 7
Nuthatch x 2
Shoveler x 2
Treecreeper x 1
Carrion Crow x
Cormorant x 1

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Dave Thacker


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A pair of Buzzards were displaying over Wardley woods this morning and another pair including a very light coloured bird were displaying over the filtration lagoons this afternoon.



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9.00 -13.00.

Wardley woods. 

Buzzard,

2 Nuthatch,

Treecreeper,

Greater spotted woodpecker,

12 Long-tailed tits.

Worsley Woods,

5 Snipe and 2 Cormorants along with the usual on the dam,

Kingfisher along the stream at the back of the dam.

2 Greater spotted woodpeckers.

Filtration lagoons.

3 Snipe

4 Teal

2 Nuthatch 

Coal tit

Reed bunting.

 

 



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Charlotte Harrison


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Thanks Tom - I think this is the most likely explanation, and did cross my mind too.

 

Visited the Old Warke Dam this morning and had the following highlights:

Long-tailed Tits

Black-headed gulls (ringed gull from Holland still present, although I can't get all 7 digits)

Gadwall

Nuthatch

Green Woodpecker (heard only)

Little Grebe



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Mill Brow

6 House Sparrow

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

1 Nuthatch (calling)

5 Goldfinch

Old Warke Dam

7 Gadwall

23 Mallard

7 Coot

5 Moorhen

91 Black headed Gull

2 Mute Swan

17 Teal

7 Canada Geese

2 Shoveler (pair)

1 Grey Heron

c50 Snipe    difficult to count in the bulrushes / sedge opposite the boardwalk

1 Mistle Thrush (in song)

Worsley Delph 

1 Kingfisher

 



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Hi Charlotte, could it not have been a corvid that had lost one or two of its middle tail feathers? I can't think of any fork tailed bird that match your description but i may be wrong



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Charlotte Harrison


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Hi Rob - yes, thanks, my mistake. I wouldn't have said it was a Bird of Prey. It didn't behave like one, and, what I probably meant, is that it wasn't the size of a Red Kite, so I ruled that one out. It looked bigger than a crow (maybe more towards the size of a raven, but the tail was wrong for a raven) and it also looked predominantly black (but that could have been due to losing the light).

Do you have any guesses on what it might have been? 



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Hi Charlotte.
Regarding the fork-tailed bird... you state that it didnt look Raptor-sized. Raptors are different sizes, do you mean it didnt look like a Bird of Prey?
Cheers


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27/12/2020 - from 8:30am to 4pm (with a break in between):

Nuthatch

Teal

Gadwall

Little Grebe

Snipe

Heron

Mallard

Mute Swan (ringed)

Canada Geese

Redwing

GS Woodpecker

Coot

Moorhen

Dunnock

Longtailed Tit

Robin

Jay

Black Headed Gulls (one ringed)

- Something Corvid-looking flew over quite low with a very well-defined and distinctive forked tail. Didn't look raptor sized, and didn't look like a Red Kite to me.



-- Edited by Charlotte Harrison on Sunday 27th of December 2020 10:37:08 PM

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Enjoyable Boxing Day scout round the woods with my Dad!

Highlights on our morning jaunt:

Eclipse shoveler

Chiffchaff 

Mistle thrush

Grey Heron

Treecreeper

Nuthatch 



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the dam,lots of teal,snipe,pair of shoveler,6 gadwall,pair of little grebe,a few tufted duck,2 nuthatch



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Worsley Woods 11-13.45. Buzzard, Sparrowhawk (f), 2 Bullfinch, Treecreeper, Jay. The Dam. Initially I only could find 17 Common snipe but luckily a Buzzard decided to land right in the middle of them causing an eruption of Snipe. As they flew a couple of laps around the dam I counted 63 until they flew out of sight only to return a minute later. I counted 74 as they returned back to their favourite place in the cover to the right of the wooden jetty. I don't think that I have ever seen this many Snipe before around the dam.

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11.00 to 14.15. An excellent couple of hours in Worsley Woods 45+ Common Snipe scattered around the dam with more flying in as I was leaving. Green sandpiper flushed from the water logged area near the motorway bridge. Woodcock flushed from the area behind the dam. Also seen, 3 Brambling along the cycle track 3 Lesser redpoll 2 Siskin 22 Redwing 3 Fieldfare Nuthatch Song thrush 3 Mistle thrush Goldcrest 18 Tufted duck Little grebe 3 Shoveler Kingfisher 2 Jay's Coal tit 6 Long tailed tips Sparrowhawk 2 Cormorants over.

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Bridgewater canal Filtration Pools brief visit AM

A small finch flock in the treeline alongside the sheep field included....

1 male Brambling

7 Chaffinch

2 Greenfinch

2 Buzzard.... above the sheep field.

Worsley Delph

1 Kingfisher



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10 - 14.15. Blackcap and 3 Jays in Wardley woods. Around the Dam area. 7 Gadwall 17 Teal. 4 Shoveler 2 Little grebe. Goldcrest 2 Greenfinch. Good to meet up again with Dave Winnard. No sign of the Yellow-browed warbler this afternoon. .

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dave broome wrote:

The Yellow-Browed Warbler called just after I got out of the car at 10:38, in the vicinity of the tennis court. No further sign up to around 11:30 when one other border was still searching.
1 Redpoll over

 no sign at 12 00



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The Yellow-Browed Warbler called just after I got out of the car at 10:38, in the vicinity of the tennis court. No further sign up to around 11:30 when one other birder was still searching.
1 Redpoll over

-- Edited by dave broome on Sunday 18th of October 2020 12:31:03 PM

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Yellow-browed Warbler at Beesley Green, Worsley (Roe Green) in trees around the car park and bowling green off Greenleach Lane (bird is vocal currently).

Info thanks to David Winnard



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10.15am to 13.15. Wardley woods Female Sparrowhawk 2 Great spotted woodpeckers 2 Bullfinch Jay Song thrush Worsley woods Small flock of 8 Long tailed tits and a single Coal tit Tree creeper On the dam. Kingfisher Little grebe 5 Gadwall 6 Snipe 5 Tufted duck 3 Grey wagtails 2 Buzzards over Male Sparrowhawk flying through the trees. Filtration lagoons Male Blackcap 7 Goldfinch.



-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 27th of September 2020 04:59:37 PM

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Late afternoon

kingfisher on the dam

Cheers Jay

Dont twitch and drive



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A Juvenile Spotted flycatcher was in Worsley woods this morning feeding from a fence post along the path at the back of the Aviary house.

Also seen;

Adult female and juvenile Sparrowhawks

3 Grey wagtails

Treecreeper

Single Willow warbler was at the filtration lagoons.



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Walked from the Old Warke dam through the woods to
Roe Green,then along the loop line back to the dam.
Species seen as follows.
Starling x 6
Black Headed Gull x 18
House Sparrow x 3
Carrion Crow x 1
Goldfinch x 6
Magpie x 4
Mallard x 20
Mute Swan x 3
Herring Gull x 1
Coot x 6
Moorhen x 1
Robin x 4
Grey Wagtail x 1
Blackbird x 4
Wood Pigeon x 2
Wren x 6
Blackcap x 1
Tree Creeper x 1
Quite a few other birds heard ,but the canopy
was so dense they were hard to find. I finished
up with birders neck.

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mute swans just hatched 6 cygnets in the village



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filtration beds.9 reed warblers,1 sedge warbler,3 reed bunting,chiffchaff,jay



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Filtration beds this afternoon.

6 Reed warblers

5 Reed buntings

2 Herons

Song thrush

6 Willow warblers heard

3 Chiffchaff

Male Blackcap

2 Buzzards over

No Sand Martins or Swallows seen.



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filtration beds .nuthatch2,chiffchaff2,6 pair Canada geese,buzzard3,grey heron,



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Tonight whilst coming home from work around 7:30pm along Leigh Road (Millionaires Row) I noticed a bird swoop down over the pavement at head height from a tree and suspected what it was. It perched up on a tree stump in the wooded area of Leigh Road in clear view and as I passed looked at the car, a fantastic Tawny Owl!



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dam.7pair of tufted duck,20 teal,4 white farmyard ducks,1 chiffchaff.



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Back end of Worsley Woods. Between 2-4ish at the Greenleach entrance.

Usual stuff on the way in nuthatch, great and long tail tits.

A moorhen perched half way up a tree had me confused for minute or so.

On the dam, several teals, tufted ducks and a single heron. A sparrowhawk over (f).

Cheers, Jay 

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Worsley woods this afternoon.

Treecreepers x2, Bullfinch x 2, Sisk in, Grey wagtail, Goldcrest.

On the dam.

17 Teal, 4 Tufted duck, Little grebe, 7 Snipe, 3 Herons and the usual Black headed gulls. It's a shame that some of the railings have been removed around the lake as dogs were swimming in the water near the wooden platform disturbing the 4 Mute swans.

Also I flushed a Woodcock in the old figure of 8 area in Wardley woods on the way home.

 



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filtration beds.2 swifts,buzzard,2 reed warblers,2 whitethroat,blackcap,no swallows under the motorway again



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Late news from yesterday (30th April) Cettis warbler heard singing in bushes by side of M60 slip road at South end of filtration beds whilst I was sat in traffic c.6pm.

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filtration beds.very mobile cettis warbler in flight,6/8 reed warblers,1 sedge warbler,2 blackcap,4 buzzard,1 kestral



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Worsley filtration Lagoons mid afternoon.

Cetti's Warbler heard, First for me at this site since creation 2004/5
Reed Warbler heard
Sedge Warbler heard
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff

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Cetti's warbler singing at filtration beds this afternoon 16.45. First for me at this site.

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Cetti's warbler singing at filtration beds this afternoon 16.45. First for me at this site.

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23 snipe,28 teal in the woods this morning



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Nice walk around the woods and the lake on Sunday.

Highlights - 5 snipe, 1 little grebe, 7 teal on the mostly frozen lake.

At least 4 brambling with chaffinches feeding on beech mast, and a flock of 30 redwing in the woods.

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sheep field next to bridgewater school ,2 ravens,3/4 brambling



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Dukes fields,opposite  bridgewater school,2 buzzards,kestrel,2 nuthatch



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20 teal,12 snipe,at least 1 male brambling with a flock of chaffinch in the woods



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4DBC was ringed at Old Warke Dam, Worsley on 17/11/2015



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A wander around Worsley Woods including Old Warke dam this morning;

On the dam;
8 Snipe
42 Mallard
7 Tufted Duck
5 Mute Swan (the male is ringed, blue darvic 4DBC - Steve C, any interesting facts about this one??)
8 Moorhen
36 Teal
12 Coot
1 Grey Heron
26 Black-headed Gull
1 Little Grebe

In the area;
Coal, Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tits
Nuthatch, Goldcrest
Song Thrush

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Five Bramblings seen with a flock of Chaffinch (30+) in the trees alongside the sheep field next to the Bridgewater school on Worsley Road this afternoon. Also two Rooks in the field with the many Crows and Woodpigeon. 



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