Typically, there is a grain of truth which has been coverted into 'the usual tosh'. There was never any legitimate access anyway and as has already been stated here, if you go on there you are tresspassing and will get slung off. During working hours atleast...

Easily over 100 people saw the bird over the weekend, no trouble, no deaths, no massive raves, no illegal activities, no stealing coal, hotwiring quarry machinery or diving over cliff edges nor any contact with site 'officials'. Just a nice well managed and behaved county twitch.

Please ensure if you visit the site, which you shouldn't because you'd be tresspassing if you did , that you keep a very sensible distance from the bird. It has been very unconfiding and does not like to be approached (yesterday's 'rock-hound' proved that!) and was feeding merrily on grass seeds legging it up and down the grassy area next to the mounds whilst the crown watched on from a good 120 foot away. That might sound a lot but there really is absolutely no need to go any closer. Let it feed in peace, if it is sat on the rock mounds constantly then you're probably too close

Ian McKerchar wrote:

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No sign of the Shorelark again today up to midday.

Please also note that where the Shorelark was is apparently () private coal board land and we shouldn't be up there. Tresspassing is a crime you know, even after working hours when there's no one else about, no danger to yourselves and you're doing no harm. Please bear that in mind

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Think that area has always been coal board land,and if im not mistaken used to be a beltin area for golden plover!i used to walk over that way quite often when i lived in west leigh used to go via the top of atherton and up to the area below plodder lane,used to be plenty of small birds up there ,yellowhammers,redpoll,skylark etc

During our fruitless Shore Lark twitch cos it had just flown off, we also saw:-

Kestrel
Buzzard
Magpie
Crow
Grey Heron

Reading the other posts, I now know some names of those who were with us! Even though we dont know who was who!

Add 2 Snipe to the list as well. Flushed from the grassy hill between the farm and the spoil heap where the Shorelark was in a desperate attempt to relocate it !