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8th Dec:

Main Lake:
Coot 115
Tufted Duck 2
Little Grebe 1

North Lake:
Goosander 4 (2m, 2f)
Kingfisher 1
A lot of mobbing activity high in an Ivy clad Oak.

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6 Dec. early morning. Crisp, sunny and -3deg..

North Lake - almost completely frozen over

Main Lake - half frozen:
Coot 111
Mallard 79
Moorhen 18
Tufted Duck 2
Little Grebe 2
Goosander 3 (1f, 2m)

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1st Dec:

Main Lake:
Coot 113
Moorhen 33
Teal 1m, 2f
Tufted Duck 2m, 1f
Mute Swan 2
Little Grebe 2

North Lake:
Goosander 5

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27th Nov:

North Lake:
7 Goosanders

Main Lake:
3 Little Grebes
2 Tufted Ducks
2 Mute Swans
Siskins heard
27 Long-tailed Tits

Linnet Clough Res:
1 Little Grebe
1 Woodcock
1 Song Thrush singing

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24th Nov:

1 Wigeon
2 Tufted Ducks
3 Little Grebes
2 Mute Swans
1 Kingfisher

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21 Nov:

Pair of Goosander still on North Lake

Main Lake:
130 Coot
4 Little Grebes
2 Wigeon (pair)
2 Tufted Ducks (females)
33 Black-headed Gulls

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17 November

North Lake:
Pair of Goosanders

Main Lake:
3 Little Grebes
1 drake Wigeon
Pair Tufted Duck
Pair Mute Swans
5 Cormorant
+ Usual Coot etc

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John Rayner


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5th Nov: Main Lake

WHOOPER SWAN 2 (adults)
Mute Swan 2
Wigeon 3
Cormorant 10
Little Grebe 1
Pink-footed Goose 160 (SE)

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John Rayner


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North Lake:
Goosander 1 male

Main Lake:
Little Grebe 4
Wigeon 4
Tufted Duck 1
Cormorant 4
Siskin 2

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A quick look over Main Lake but nothing unusual:

Wigeon 1m
Little Grebe 2
Cormorant 6
Black-headed Gull 14

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139 Coot
3 Little Grebes
2 Tufted Ducks
4 Cormorants

Cheers John

-- Edited by John Rayner on Monday 27th of October 2014 10:00:08 PM

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John Rayner


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24/10/14

North Lake:
3 Mallard
1 Tufted Duck (f)

Main Lake:
5 Wigeons
4 Mandarin Duck (3m, 1f)
3 Little Grebes
4 Cormorants
2 Mute Swans
1 Tufted Duck (flew in from N. Lake)
131 Coot

River Goyt:
Dipper singing at Bottoms Bridge

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18/10/14

Coot 117 (a few down on recent numbers)
Little Grebe 2
Cormorant 2
Goldcrest 2

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John Rayner


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12/10/14. A visit before the fog lifted to see if anything new had dropped in. It had - one Tufted Duck hmm

No Great Crested Grebes
Coot 127
Moorhen 39
1 Little Grebe
1 Tufted Duck
2 Mute Swan
1 Grey Heron

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09/10/14

Main Lake:
Only 1 adult Great Crested Grebe. Juvs seem to have left.
2 Little Grebes

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A visit during a temporary lull in the rain. Lots of waterfowl today so a complete inventory:

Main Lake:
Coot 123
Moorhen 33
Canada Goose 136
Mallard 70
Wigeon 6
Teal 5
Mute Swan 2
Great Crested Grebe 3 (1 ad, 2 juv)
Little Grebe 3
Grey Heron 1
Nuthatch, Long-tailed Tits calling
Many Jackdaws overhead

The juvenile grebes were feeding independently and making flights across the lake so won't be with us for much longer.

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04/10/14. Evening visit.

All 3 juvenile Great Crested Grebes present but only 1 adult
3 Little Grebes
3 Wigeon

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02/10/2014. [09.30 - 10.45].

Glorious sunshine! And Coot numbers are still building:

Coot 121
Great Crested Grebe 4 (2 ads, 2 juvs. Couldn't find the 3rd but the other 2, still calling for food, are also diving for their own, so it may be independent enough to have left)
Little Grebe 1
Wigeon 1
Jay 4

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30/09/2014 (08.15 - 09.45)

Main Lake:
Usuals +
1 Wigeon
1 Chiffchaff calling
1 Sparrowhawk (large female)

Linnet Clough Reservoir:
2 Little Grebes
2 Mallard
5 Moorhens
1 Chiffchaff singing

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26/09/2014. Morning walk with Rick Hall.

Main Lake:
6 Wigeon
3 Little Grebes
5 Great Crested Grebes
1 Kingfisher
2 Cormorants

River Goyt:
Mandarin (female)
3 Goosanders
Another Kingfisher

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23/09/2014

As yesterday but a more careful count:

Coot 116
Moorhen 31
Wigeon 4

No sign of Tufted Duck or Gadwall

Cheers, John



-- Edited by John Rayner on Tuesday 23rd of September 2014 02:39:20 PM

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22/09/2014

Coot 113
Moorhen 21
Wigeon 4
Tufted Duck 1 female
Great Crested Grebe 5
Little Grebe 2
Mute Swan 2
Kingfisher 2

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17/09/2014

2 male Wigeon (new in)
1 Gadwall
2 Little Grebes
5 Great Crested Grebes

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Late News 16/09/14

All 3 Great Crested Grebe chicks begging food
Female Teal
Male Gadwall
No sign of Green Woodpecker although it was also reported flying from river then over horse paddock and Main Lake on 14th (info Gerry Purslow)

Cheers John

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13.00 - 14.30 hrs

2 Dipper flying upstream under Bottoms Bridge
2 adult Great Crested Grebe, but could only see 2 very vocal juveniles
1 Male Gadwall
1 Kingfisher downstream under the Roman Packhorse Bridge
1 Grey Wagtail
& last but not least my first sighting of a Green Woodpecker in the Borough of Stockport.
Have heard them previously in the area, but this was the first positive sighting.
It flew from the woods above the railway tunnel, close to Windy Bottom Farm, crossing the river & landing in a tree
on the opposite bank.
It then dropped to the ground but disappeared from view.

-- Edited by Phil Panton on Monday 15th of September 2014 03:58:58 PM

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Gadwall male 1 (new in)
Teal female 1 (new in)
Tufted Duck 1 female
Kingfishers 2 (over Main Lake)
Coot 91 (numbers building)
Little Grebe 2
Great Crested Grebes 5
Mute Swan 2

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A new mix of birds to complement the old.

1 female Tufted Duck
1 drake Teal
3 Little Grebes
Great Crested Grebes still hanging on to all 3 chicks.

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An hour in heavy rain:

All 5 Grebes still surviving
81 Coot
23 Moorhens
78 Mallard
1 Cormorant
2 Swans
77 House Martins. A steady stream migrating west in small parties (8,20,17,8,9,3,3 and 17). Plus a single bird east.

Cheers John

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Mother's obviously warned them not to take sweets from strange men?

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20/08/14 P.M.

4 Swifts
c40 House Martins
2 Swallows
4 Sand Martins
5 Great Crested Grebes (A behavioural note: The other day I noticed one adult, presumed male, swim in with a small fish and offer it to each of the 3 chicks in turn. All refused to take it whereupon the adult then offered it to the female, which was carrying one of the chicks on its back. She took the fish and offered it to the chick she was carrying and it wolfed it down immediately. Today much the same thing - they refused to take the fish from the bird that swam in some distance with it but then took it from the adult that was accompanying the chicks).

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Afternoon visit, but not alot showing due to the heavy rain, did however notice that both Little Grebes were on the Mill Pond (the White Dovecote one) off Station Road, on the approach to Strines station.
Also Kingfisher sheltering in the bushes on the river, close to the bridge on the same stretch of road.

-- Edited by Phil Panton on Sunday 17th of August 2014 04:46:38 PM

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Coot 77
Great Crested Grebe 2 ad, 3 juv
Mute Swan 2
House Martins c90
Sand Martin 1
Swallow 1
Blue/Great Tit flock c15
Tree Creeper 1
Chiffchaff 2 juvs

Cheers John

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Kingfisher flying low over the main lake at 19.20 hrs .

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The Great Crested Grebes now have a 2nd brood of 3 small young. Two hitching a ride on parent's back and the third swimming and begging food. Cheers John

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Great Crested Grebe pair still sitting
Mute Swans 2
Coot 71 (approx 1/3 juvs)
Moorhens 4 ads, 10 juvs
Mallards 62 (but only a single duckling)
Heron 1 juv
Dead Canada Goose in the water

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14th July:

No sign of Great Crested Grebe chicks. They were well grown on 26th June but still dependent on perents and begging for food. Didnt see them dive for their own food. Would they be old enough now to disperse and fend for themselves, or have they been predated? The adults now seem to be attempting a second brood with both adding material to the original nest and the female sitting.

Cheers John

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Pair of Great Crested Grebes with 2 almost fully grown young
Pair Mute Swans still (including Green CCT4)
Coot 31 adults and 18 youngsters of various sizes
Moorhen 3 ads + 4 young
Mallard 2 broods of 9 & 2
Grey Wagtail 1
Grey Heron 1

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Great Crested Grebe pair - now reduced to 2 fairly well grown chicks
Mute Swans 2
Coot broods of 1,2,2,3,3,4,4
Mallard broods of 2,3,3,3
But only 1 Moorhen youngster seen
Treecreeper carrying food
Nuthatch carrying food
House Martin 10
Swallow 6
Swift 4

Cheers John

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2 Mandarins and 1 Dipper on the river.
Stock Dove drinking from the puddle in the horse field.

No sign of the Cuckoo heard singing from the woodland towards the railway line at 06.00-06.15 (info thanks to Gerry Purslow)

Cheers John

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Great Crested Grebe pair have 3 young
Mute Swan pair have failed
Coot - 6 broods of 4,4,3,3,2,1
Canada Goose - brood of 3 & crèche of 12
Mallard - 3 broods of 5,3,2
c35 mixed hirundine flock of Swallows, House & Sand Martins
Grey Wagtail female carrying food

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Plenty of evidence of birds breeding:

Coot - 25 Adults (5 birds sitting and broods of 2,3 & 4 young & copulation)
Great Crested Grebe (pair with 1 carrying at least 2 young on its back)
Mute Swan (pair with female sitting)
Moorhen (copulation)
Canada Goose (4 pairs with evidence of egg predation)
Blackbird & Robin (carrying food)
Blackcap, Willow Warbler & Chiffchaff (singing on territory)

Also
Tufted Duck 2m, 1f
Grey Wagtail 1
Cormorant 2

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Afternoon visit

Fairly quiet, but good to see a pair of Coots taking 5 newly hatched balls of fluff for a swim & another sitting on eggs.
i Dipper heading downstream under the railway bridge
5 Swallow & 3 House Martin over

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Evening visit:

9 Swallows
2 Great Crested Grebes
2 Mute Swans
7 Tufted Ducks
59 Canada Geese

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North Lake:
A single Mallard (lots of bankside over has been removed)

Main Lake:
Coot 25
Tufted Duck 4m, 2f
Teal 1m
Mandarin 1m, 1f
Great Crested Grebe pair at nest
Mute Swan 2
Chiffchaff singing but no other migrant passerines.

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North Lake:
The overhanging willows that sheltered Mandarin Ducks have now been felled.

Main Lake:
2 Mute Swans both ringed. Cob - Green CCT4 and Pen - Blue 7HJH

The latter has not been seen here since Jan 2013 though its sibling Blue 7HPV visited earlier this winter but has since departed. These siblings were ringed in Sep 2012 at Newport, Shropshire.

Fairly quiet on the lake:
Still 8 Tufted Ducks
59 Canada Geese
18 Coot (2 sitting)
2 Great Crested Grebes (sitting)
2 Little Grebes
2 Grey Herons
2 Chiffchaffs

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North Lake:
More chain saw activity, felling some of the crack willows on the far bank.

Main Lake:
2 Mute Swans (Probably the pair that departed in January but could only read the first character of the blue darvic 7??? on one individual)
2 Great Crested Grebes (now sitting)
24 Coot (further reduction in numbers)
8 Tufted Ducks (4m, 4f)
18 Canada Geese
1 Chiffchaff singing
10 Redwings
8 Goldfinches
3 Mistle Thrushes
Singles of Cormorant, Grey Heron and Great Spotted Woodpecker.

Cheers, John

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Main Lake:

Coot 29
Great Crested Grebe 2
Little Grebe 1
Stock Dove singing
Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming

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Main Lake:

34 Coot including 1 on nest (side channels not checked)
2 Great Crested Grebes busy nest building
3 Little Grebes
2 Teal (drakes)
1 Tufted Duck (drake)
2 Cormorants

River area:

5 Mallard
2 Mandarin Duck (pair)
1 Buzzard
1 Woodcock

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North Lake:
5 Mandarin Ducks (3m, 2f)

Main Lake:
4 Tufted Ducks (3m, 1f)
1 Great Crested Grebe
1 Little Grebe
2 Cormorants

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8th Feb:

Main Lake:
1 Common Gull (uncommon here)
52 Black-headed Gull
1 Great Crested Grebe
3 Tufted Duck
59 Mallard
48 Coot
19 Moorhen
1 Treecreeper
c50 Siskin
2 Lesser Redpoll
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Sparrowhawk
37 Canada Geese

North lake:
2 Mandarin (pair)

Cheers, John

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