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PHIL GREENWOOD


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Looks like 18 nests now on Irlam Road and Woodsend Road.

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Thirty five in lower rookery at Birtle . Highest number since it started about six years ago . Have not yet done a precise count of the higher rookery but seems to be seven .

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PHIL GREENWOOD


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14 nests so far on Irlam Road, Flixton.



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No nests in the small wood between Brookheys Covert and Brookheys Farm this year.

New rookery by the A6144 Manchester Road, just prior to the Saica paper mill Carrington, about 10 nests

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Rod Harrison


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Noticed last few years how, over the border in Calderdale, sadly, how many rookeries have disappeared and those that remain have generally reduced in size. Mind you around Whitefield and Haywood the same is true and no doubt about other areas on the edge of the city.

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Originally posted today by Brian Shuttleworth:

St James Shuttleworth

Plenty of activity over the last few days, between 20 and 26 nests look to be occupied or being rebuilt, lots of sticks being stolen and fought over, 44 individual birds counted but lots of coming and going so difficult to count.

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Four nests so far at St Johns Church, Mosley Common, at various stages of construction (just the one nest over the weekend of 24th/25th Feb, one which had largely survived the winter storms). Six pairs were actually present this morning. One of the pairs without a nest were sat in the canopy while one intermittently preened the nape of the other. One of the highlights of the year is this burst of activity before the foliage appears.
Elsewhere in Tyldesley nests are also under construction at the Elliott Street/Castle Street estate - initially appeared to be an outlier from the Tyldesley Cemetery rookery - a site which now seems to be abandoned.

-- Edited by dave broome on Thursday 7th of March 2024 06:41:25 AM

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Yesterday much excitement and joy .
Three nascent nests appeared in Birtle lower rookery and two a little further up the road , in a tree not used previously . Rejoice !

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Birch on heywood/middleton borderSun 9/4/23 114 nests

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Last evening , i counted twenty four nests in Birtle lower rookery . Hurrah !

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PHIL GREENWOOD


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Looks to be 14 active nests in 3 trees, in the Irlam Road area, Flixton. The main tree from last year does not appear to be in use.

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Just seen the first twigs being brought to Birtle lower rookery . Hurrah !

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Birtle .
Lower rookery . Birds becoming noisier , more talkative and moving around the site more .
Perhaps building will begin , soonish .

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Birch on heywood / Middleton border 27/4

92 nests

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19th April.

Eight active Rook nests at Hattersley roundabout .. M67 terminal.

Roger.

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Rooks are back again nesting at the top of the car park light cluster at Asda Ashton under Lyne.



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Birtle .
Lower rookery 25 nests . Middle rookery 5 nests . Top rookery 25 nests .
These started six years ago with the lower , then the top , then the middle . Distance between lower and top is about six hundred yards with the middle slightly nearer to the lower . Is this to be counted as one rookery ?


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Possible nine nests in Holcombe Church



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PHIL GREENWOOD


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Possible 20 nests on Irlam Road, Flixton, with a further 3 in a tree round the corner off Woodsend Road, behind DeBrook Lodge care home..

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Four nests have been built at St Johns Church, Mosley Common

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Birtle lower rookery . Rooks starting to eye up last years nests and trying them for size .

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Back in March 2021 fredford noted that there were Jackdaws associating with Rooks at a local rookery.   I have read that in Autumn Rooks perform a display called Stooping when they climb to great heights on thermals and then plunge vertically, obviously pulling out of the dive before they would hit the ground.  They are accompanied on their ascent by Jackdaws that do not stoop but presumably go up just for kicks.

 



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4 birds at the nests in Tyldesley Cemetery this morning. A pair were at the nests in St Johns Church, Mosley Common yesterday

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Location in upper Norden with around 10 nests



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Tues 20th April.

Broadbottom.

c 5 nests at junction of Hill-end Lane and Broadbottom Road ... I was driving so possibly more ??

Roger.

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Birtle . Twenty-three nests in original place , started in 2013 , eighteen in the one four hundred yards to the east which was establihed one year later and this year there is an additional site between the two , with ten nests .
Is this one rookery or three ?

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Friday 16th April.

Counted 16 active nests at Grange Farm Feeds, Hattersley roundabout, Mottram in Longdendale.

Roger.

-- Edited by Roger Baker 3 on Friday 16th of April 2021 09:35:20 PM

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Called in at Birch services twice this week and loads of activity at the rookery in Birch. Loads of nests from one end of village to other. 



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I demand a recount!

18 nests on Irlam Road, Flixton and also 4 more in a tree behind De Brook Lodge care home.

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11 nests in use at Tyldesley Cemetery

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Probably final count, looks like 17 nests on Irlam Road, Flixton.

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Birtle . 23 nests , they have been busy . The annexe , quarter of a mile to the north east , has about seven nests. Most interesting and amusing to watch the rooks swinging on twigs to break them off . The former magpie nest has been requisitioned .
There are always a good number of jackdaws with the rooks . Why is this ? Do they nest amongst the rooks ?

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PHIL GREENWOOD


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Now 16 nests on Irlam Road, Flixton.

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Not sure how many nests make a rookery but there are at least three nests at Asda, Ashton under Lyne, the birds are using the very tall lights that illuminate the main car park. Also a further nest in the trees on the edge of the car park near the by pass. These birds were nesting there last year.



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7 nests being redecorated by residents on the rookery at Kickety Brook yesterday.

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4 nests opposite Aldi in centre of Tyldesley. 

Cant believe never noticed them in the past but they were very vocal today.



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I live over the border in West Yorkshire and the rooks are behind Manchester in returning and rebuilding their nests. Rastrick rookery down from 47 to one (last year) in ten years. The last pair visited yesterday (female has deformed foot so easy to recognise). Rookeries in Ripponden, Greetland and others locally have reduced significantly over past 10-15 years. Mind you, when I lived in Prestwich, I can remember large rookeries in Whitefield, Heywood, Middleton and Heaton Park but they're either long gone or much reduced also. Very unlikely that the trend will change. Birch is the only one which has appeared in the meantime in that area. Jackdaws have increased substantially though around Manchester in the meantime.



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St Johns & St James Shuttleworth, 27 active nests, with 19 birds perched in the trees and 31 birds feeding in surrounding fields.

Regards Brian.



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PHIL GREENWOOD


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Actually 14 nests on Irlam Road, Flixton today.

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Looks like it could be 12 on Irlam Road, Flixton.

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There's a small rookery (6 nests today) in an oak on Church lane near Barr Green Farm in Woodford



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Only nine nests , so far , at Birtle . Rather concerned .

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Shuttleworth and Birch off to a good start . Birtle slow this year .

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Thats early considering the weather too!



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Birtle Rookery . Hurrah ! First rook seen , this morning , carrying twig to the lower rookery .

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Final Irlam Road score is 14 nests, 12 in 1 tree and 2 in another.

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Are there any rookeries in the Oldham/Rochdale area? 



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Birch on heywood/Middleton boundary 17/4 afternoon exercise stroll

Now 93 nests, probably last count as trees now beginning to leaf

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12 nests on Irlam Road, all in 1 tree.

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Birch heywood/Middleton boundary 31/3

87 nests occupied with a new ones being built so number may increase but way down on 117 from April 2016

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