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Steve Suttill


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Karen Foulkes wrote:

2 Brambling on Manchester Road this morning. 1 bird was a male almost in full breeding plumage.

Nice to see Mr Suttill does let them out of their cagewink.gif




Anything else you need for your Tameside list, Karen? smile.gifsmile.gif

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Karen Foulkes


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2 Brambling on Manchester Road this morning. 1 bird was a male almost in full breeding plumage.

Nice to see Mr Suttill does let them out of their cagewink.gif

Other highlights.

Dipper
Grey Wagtail
4 Jays squabbling
Pr Bullfinches

Magpies still building their nest

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Bad times in Top Mossley - they've started work on the old Prospect House site and hacked down loads of trees this week. Was going to happen sooner or later but very depressing. Our garden overlooks it and I fear for the effect it will have on the species that visited the garden and surrounding area no.gif

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Karen Foulkes wrote:

I decided to try my luck with the Mossley Bramblings this afternoon. After a look around the area I decided that Steve Suttill keeps them in a cage and only lets them go at certain timeswink.gif





Taking the day off work - dentist cry.gif so decided to let out the Bramblings for a bit of exercise smile.gif

At least 4 in the trees over the road from my house. Don't know what my neighbour puts in her feeders but they certainly seem to like it.

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2 Dippers on river, near bridge at back of football pitch on Egmont street. One with silver ring on right leg. Sorry no more info.

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seeing as you are offering, how about a pint of millstone in the Rising Sun?

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Karen Foulkes


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I'm sure we could come to some arrangement which wouldn't make your wallet too heavysmile.gif

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If an Oriental Turtle Dove is worth £5, how much for a Brambling?

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I decided to try my luck with the Mossley Bramblings this afternoon. After a look around the area I decided that Steve Suttill keeps them in a cage and only lets them go at certain timeswink.gif

I then went for a mooch near the river and canal and some of the adjoining woodland.

A pair of Grey Wagtails showed well on a building by the river
Dipper singing then flew upstream

There were plenty of Tits calling in the woodland but I stood quietly and was rewarded with a superb Goldcrest giving great close up views and also a Treecreeper which showed reasonably well before flying further into the woodland and disappearing completely.

A pair of Magpies were quietly nest building in the same location.

Also a flock of at least 50 Jackdaws were flying around near the railway station.

I'll probably return for further exploration!



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Roger Baker 3 wrote:


PS. Are we all on the same Hymn Sheet now ?





Hope so Roger - thought I was going mad for a moment (please don't comment on this biggrin.gifbiggrin.gif)

Thanks for sorting this out, Ian.

Cheers, Steve

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Sunday 6th March. 06.30 - 07.20.

Egmont Street.

Canal back of Pallet Works.

Greenfinch.
Goldfinch.
Chaffinch.
B & G tit.
Mistle Thrush.
Collared Dove.
C. Crow.
Magpie.
Jackdaw.
Jay.
Mallard.
Plenty singing Wren, Robin & Dunnock.
Cormerant over..... heading Stalybridge from Mossley.

R. Tame.

L/Tail Tits.
Mallard.
Dipper..... on stones 15 yd downstream of bridge..... flew off upstream.

Roger.

PS. Are we all on the same Hymn Sheet now ?

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There seem to be 2 threads called Mossley confuse.gif and Roger has unearthed one that hasn't been used for years cry.gif. Is there any way of sorting this out Ian?

Small flock of Bramblings have been present on Manchester Road for over 2 months now.

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Sun 2/1/11: 4 Brambling in back garden smile.gifsmile.gifsmile.gifsmile.gif

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Walk along Quick Edge Road to Lydgate and back along Stockport Road today (3pm)

Long-tailed tits x 6
Many jackdaws, plus a couple of carrion crows
Great tit x 2
Magpie x 4
Robin
Highlight was the small group of fieldfares and redwings at the Mossley end of Quick Edge Rd - my first redwings of the winter, and my first fieldfares ever!

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Weds 29.12.10

2 female Brambling just passed through my back garden (94 Manchester Road) smile.gifsmile.gif

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26th December
While I was out the back putting food on the bird table, my wife was at the front door welcoming the in-laws and got a shock as a sparrowhawk smacked into the bedroom window above and fell to the floor by her feet. After sitting dazed for 20 seconds or so it flew off before I could see it.

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Sunday morning 28.11.10:

Snipe in ditch between Heron Lane and the river. Same ditch which produced Green Sandpiper earlier this year.

Saturday morning: 2 Dippers in territorial dispute on river.

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Weds 17.11.10 7am : 2 ravens over my house. Were coming from the Oldham direction. This was a regular occurrence several years ago which made me think that there was a roost in the Oldham area.

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Plenty of activity on the feeders this morning, and 9 blackbirds on the hawthorn. Most exciting over the weekend though was the nuthatch - a garden tick for us!



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Pheasant in the garden this morning. Heard one in the field at the back several times before, but this is the first time we've seen it in the garden.

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Weds 22.09.10

just before lunchtime 4 Ravens flew over, very noisily, heading SW.

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Chiffchaff heard this morning (first for some time) and willow warbler too.

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Two jays on my garden feeders yesterday and today.

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Pair of tawny owls heard hooting to each other last night (2200; Stockport Road).

And, delighted to see two more jays on Sunday afternoon!

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Oh no, what a shame. It sounds like they've both perished then cry.gif I had consoled myself earlier by thinking that at least there would still be one of the pair.

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Two jays have been regular visitors to my garden for the last 4-5 weeks. I saw a dead jay on Hanover St, Mossley last Thursday. I saw a single jay in my garden on several occasions over the weekend.

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I've recently been enjoying seeing (and hearing) a couple of jays around Stamford Road/Stockport Road, so was saddened to see one corpse on Stamford Road this morning cry.gif

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If you go up Broadcarr Lane towards the Pike, you can bear right down Lane Head Road (past the scrapyard) and check the stone walls and fence posts. If you continue down to the houses you can turn left and follow a rough track (Back Lane) to complete a circuit. Plenty of Lapwings with chicks here as well.

Good Luck, Steve

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Whereabouts is that Steve? We had a walk from Mossley over to Luzley on Monday evening and I had hopes of seeing little owls up there. Did see several lapwings.

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Late visit to BBS square yesterday. Glad to see/hear plenty of Willow Warblers and Mipits which were scarce on the first visit. No Wheatears on either visit cry.gif

Snipe ("singing") a first for the square smile.gif and 2 Little Owls.

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Spotted Flycatcher on Heron Lane, Mossley on Saturday morning, just yards from where I found one last autumn. No sign on Sunday morning so almost certainly was stopping off on migration.

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Hi Steve,

The Queens Mill Dippers hatched 5 on May 8th so there should be plenty of activity now. We hope to ring the pulli on Sunday. The female should be Orange over metal right and light pink left if you manage to confirm. We think the male is unringed.
You were right about the Grey Wagtails, they must have had a terrible winter.

Cheers

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no steve i was driving past in the car at the time. the birds were right next to the road above the cricket club sign.

-- Edited by jason fisher on Thursday 13th of May 2010 03:16:41 PM

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Must have just missed you Jason. I was there at the same time on my way back from doing some atlas survey work up on the moors (very quiet - no Lapwings, no Golden Plover, very few Skylarks, only one Curlew and no Dotterel cry.gifcry.gif.)

Did you see (or hear) the gamekeeper blasting away at the crows?

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single raven being mobbed by 2 jackdaws over micklehurst cricket club about 2.30 this afternoon.

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My 1st swifts of the year on Saturday (May 1) - 7 screaming high overhead.

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Productive day in the garden today and lots of sightings in/overhead too:

2 x coal tit
goldcrest
2 x lapwing
Grey heron
3 x Great tit
2 x blue tit
Robin
Very vocal chaffinch
Blackbird
Wren
Blackcap (my 1st of the year)
Swallow (ditto)
Long-tailed tit
+ Magpies, woodpigeons, jackdaws, carrion crows

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BBS early visit yesterday in Hartshead Pike area. Numbers of Meadow Pipits and Willow Warblers well down on last year. Could be the cold wind suppressing activity and/or the presence of both Sparrowhawk and Kestrel.

Pair of Curlew recorded for first time in about 12 years of surveying smile.gifsmile.gif

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Thanks Steve, will keep a look out eyepopping.gif... trip to Mossley


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Saturday 13th March - 8.30am

returning from checking nesting Dippers, I cut across the field between the River Tame and the railway just south of the Greenfield border. Noticing that the farmer had started digging new drainage ditches, I decided to have a look for Snipe. The bird I flushed flew off rather like a Snipe, but was smaller, slimmer and had completely dark upperparts except for the white rump. Couldn't have been anything other than a GREEN SANDPIPER!

A GM first for me biggrin.gifbiggrin.gif(but no Tournament points no.gifno.gif)

Tried to relocate the bird, without success, but it flew off South so it will be worth our Tameside listers keeping their eyes open.

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Cheers Steve, very interesting. I'll have to read up on those singing competitions.

We're up on Stockport Road, pretty much opposite the Mason's. I guess I was meaning Mossley in general, it's the first time I've seen a linnet in Tameside - although it has to be said that nowadays I'm looking a lot more keenly than I ever used to!

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This morning in the garden we spotted a pair of goldcrests and what we're confident was a linnet singing - are these fairly common in the area?





I don't know which bit of Mossley you live in, Tom. I wouldn't descibe Linnet as common but I regularly see a few on my Breeding Bird Survey near Waterton Lane. They also frequent the railway cuttings near the Greenfield border and the scrubby areas round Scout Tunnel on the canal.

Linnet singing competitions are part of Mossley folklore, as I believe they are in the Wigan area.

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This morning in the garden we spotted a pair of goldcrests and what we're confident was a linnet singing - are these fairly common in the area?

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Practically numbed my fingers to the point of frostbite looking out the skylight just now, but a decent return:

4 bullfinches
8 long-tailed tits
1 blue tit
1 great tit
3 goldfinches
2 redwing
possibly a goldcrest but didn't get good enough view
30+ jackdaw

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Flock of 10 Cormorants overhead this morning, just before the snow started again. Appeared to be making a bee-line for Castleshaw.

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Steve,
Thanks. Will have to keep my eyes open a bit wider.

John

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Sat 29.08.09

Spotted Flycatcher in Rowan trees (lots of berries to the delight of the resident Bullfinches) on Heron Lane by the river. Plenty of roving tit flocks with the odd Willow Warbler and Blackcap juvs.

Sun 30.08.09

Spotted Flycatcher (presumably the same) spotted again.

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First Blackcap singing from trees by canal on Good Friday. Whitethroats next!

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Hi John

If you go down onto Stamford Road you should hear Chiffchaff singing between the railway station and Mill Lane. No Blackcaps yet though.

Cheers, Steve

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Not heard any warblers around here yet.

Now have 7 siskins (3 male, 4 female ) visiting feeders daily.

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