This AM 1 Stunning Redstart (M) only 2nd one ive seen in this area, 4 Wheatear 6 Buzzards 6 singing Whitethroats House Sparrow collecting food 2 Goldcrests 3 pr Lapwings Grey Partridge calling Mistle Thrush collecting food.
A covey of 13 Grey Partridges and 5 Buzzards this morning around Standish Hall Farm. 2 Nuthatches and a Great Spotted Woodpecker at Strickland House, and a couple of Kestrels hunting near Roundhouse Farm. Half a dozen each of Skylark and Meadow Pipit over..
Owl Mooching Good night to look for owls Pr Tawnys calling from Birley Wood Male Tawny Calling from Frodsham Wood Pr Tawnys Calling from wood adj Christopher Park Male Tawny from wood whats adj Z Bends Then the rain set in and they all shut up and we got soaked
A stroll round Gidlow today with Allan Rimmer Gidlow Cemetary 8 Jays 1 Buzzard Calling 1 Green Woodpecker 11 Mandarins 8m,3f on a little pond in the cemetary 3 Mistle Thrush 2 Goldcrests first sighting for 2mth
Ont Rucks 3 Singing Reed Buntings 1 Common Snipe 1 Jack Snipe 1 Gr Sp Woodpecker 1 Green Woodpecker which could have been the one from the cemetary 3 Jays
Wakefields 1 Buzzard 1 Lapwing Cheers Jimmy
-- Edited by Jimmy Meadows on Wednesday 17th of March 2010 07:41:27 PM
1 Buzzard 12+ Linnet off Standish Wood Lane 9 Stock Dove 1 Kestrel 3 Lapwing 1 Fieldfare 3 Mistle Thrush 1 Mallard over Gidlow Cemetery 1 "chocolate" Carrion Crow near the stables at Strickland House (not dissimilar to the one recently photographed in Blackrod).
2 Ravens in the field next to Roundmoor Farm-house. One kept dancing and prancing about while the other watched from a tree. Amusing to watch, and gave great close-up views.
1 Buzzard 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Kestrel 6 Common Gull 1 Nuthatch near Strickland House Farm
7 Stock Doves, 13 Lapwing, 23 Magpies, 19 Fieldfare, and 2 Mistle Thrushes near Standish Hall Farm.
2 Buzzards and a Sparrowhawk soaring over Gidlow Rucks. Sizeable finch flock near Roundmoor Farm with c40 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch & 6 Goldfinch. Large thrush gathering near Standish Hall Farm with 40+ Fieldfare, 30+ Redwing, 10+ Mistle Thrush & 20+ Starling. 2 Skylark 2 Stock Dove 12 Common Gull 3 Kestrel 2 Mute Swans over 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Circular walk from the entrance of Gidlow Cemetery at Boars Head, taking in Roundmoor Farm, Standish Wood Lane, Standish Hall Farm, Upperwood Farm and Brockhurst Farm:
1 Buzzard 6 Yellowhammer 1 Kestrel 6 Skylark 2 Meadow Pipit 7 Fieldfare 10 Song Thrush Pair of Shoveler & 9 Common Gulls @ Standish Hall Farm pool 1 Treecreeper 1 Goldcrest 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 120+ Wood Pigeon
Henry, this surprise revelation might entitle you to twitching rights in our Royal Borough...............but we`ll have to take a vote on it at the next WB200 Club meeting.
Nice to read the sightings from this site as many moons ago my Great Uncle used to run the farm there. I must go back one day. Keep it up chaps. Henry.
1 Jack Snipe near Brockhurst Farm 1 Raven over Roundmoor Farm, heading NE 14 Fieldfare 19 Collared Doves on wires at Upper Wood Farm 3 Coal Tit 5 Pheasant
In the mist this morning 1 Lone Grey Plover over east calling and close to giving decent views coming out of the mist 1st for me in the borough 1 Green Woodpecker 2 Chiffchaff 35 Canada Geese 2 Mistle Thrush 1 Roe Deer
