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Steve Judge


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Peregrine on top east corner of the BEYOND building at 15:00 hrs today.

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Peregrine perched on the E of the BEYOND building sign on the eastern side of the building around 1pm today.



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Still in the Trafford Golf Centre overspill car park. A female Kestrel landed on the security light post next to me 15.10 pm. Peregrine now gone, but two buzzards slowly circling above at 15.12 pm.

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Peregrine on the top east corner of the Beyond building right now. 14.20. It seems to be watching the golf balls flying around the Golf range.

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Peregrine on the B of Beyond (Western side) just now 12.30. It then flew off, circled, and joined another Peregrine, then one flew off west.

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Peregrine on the top west corner of the 'Beyond' building today at 11.30 a.m, then it flew off west after 5 mins.

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Whilst parked in Trafford retail park looking in the direction of beyond looking to see if any peregrines were there at 10.25am, there wasn't any peregrines, but a grey heron flew over the Trafford Centre heading in the direction of beyond but lost from view behind the trees. 10 minutes later 3 jays flew from the direction of the Trafford Centre High up & heading my way over the retail park. On leaving at 11am I then noticed a peregrine was actually sat on one of the pylons next to beyond, also 9 starlings were sat about 20 feet away from the peregrine.

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Peregrine still on the B of the Beyond sign on the eastern side of the centre at just after 3pm today, also seen it on two separate occasions there whilst driving past within a week.



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Steven Heywood wrote:

I know the weather's bad but a heron at the Trafford Centre bus station still comes as a surprise




I saw that flying in from my office window, not seen many myself at the centre! PEREGRINE on the Beyond roof late morning just above the letters.

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I know the weather's bad but a heron at the Trafford Centre bus station still comes as a surprise

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Peregrine on the B of Beyond mid afternoon (14.37)

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I think this is the closest thread. 
I was surprised to see a buzzard fly very low West over the junction of Davyhulme Road and Park Road (just South of Kelloggs) at 17:45. Local magpies did not look impressed.



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Peregrine 1 on the Beyond building
Kingfisher 1 fishing along the Ship Canal below the Travelodge

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Lapwing - over 200 NNW over the Beyond building / Barton Bridge towards the mosses at 11.09

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PEREGRINE back on the 'Beyond' building this morning, not seen it in the last 3 days.

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On Wednesday 8th whilst on my way to work a tit flock was roaming around st Anthonys church on 11th Street, it also had 2 chiffchaff & a nuthatch. Yesterday Thursday 9th a chiffchaff was singing in the same area & again singing today also a great spotted woodpecker was calling at the top of a tall conifer.
Starlings still gathering in several locations enjoying all the berries.

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A great spotted woodpecker flew directly over my place of work on Broadway as I just finished at 1pm today, also 9 Canada geese as I watched the woodpecker fly over.
There has been a gathering of starlings around Trafford park recently, they are enjoying the berries on the Rowan trees, the flocks seem to be from as little as around 50 but yesterday I watched a large flock go over my works whilst on my break, they did a murmeration as they passed over, this flock contained at least 700 birds & they headed in the direction of the Trafford centre.

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Peregrine back on the 'BEYOND' building this morning by Trafford Centre, its been pretty frequent over the last couple of weeks.

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A good morning for Birds of Prey over the 'BEYOND' building, Peregrine turned up late morning on its usual perch and also Hobby, Kestrel and Buzzard over.

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Peregrine currently sitting on top of the 'BEYOND' building.

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Back on the B of Beyond (N/E side - facing Trafford Centre) at 2.50pm this afternoon.

-- Edited by Robert Farmer on Saturday 31st of July 2021 06:10:37 PM

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Ray Scally


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Peregrine sitting on the BEYOND building this morning.

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Peregrine perched on the roof of Beyond just now.

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6am.

  Peregrine was sat on the top of one of the pillars of the new suspension bridge. Which gave me an excellent close up view of it from my van, as I drove past it within 20 feet, on the anticlockwise inside lane of the M60, Barton fly over. evileye It was sat on a different pillar at 2,15pm as I was driving home. 



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Peregrine on the 'Beyond' building this morning next to The Trafford Centre.

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A peregrine falcon went low over my work place on Broadway at 10.05 am this morning whilst on my break, it had a little swoop at a crow that was actually harassing a lesser black backed gull with food.

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At least 25 swifts whizzing around fairly low over b&q car park around 2.30pm.

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2 peregrines over my works on Broadway whilst on my break around 4.15pm this afternoon, they looked to be heading towards cargill so probably going to hunt the pigeons there.
Also a lapwing over guiness Road trading estate calling.

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1:30pm 

Whitethroat calling loudly from the bushes of Cosentino on Guinness rd 



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A buzzard & a peregrine both circling over guiness Road trading estate whilst driving home from work yesterday just after 2pm.
Several chiffchaffs around Trafford Park but only heard 1 willow warbler near village way circle.

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1:35pm two buzzard's and an adult female peregrine having a violent altercation above the gates to Cargill on Guinness rd. At one point the peregrine managed to bring one of the buzzard's down to about 5 feet off the ground into the middle of Guinness rd where they were both nearly hit by passing vehicles!! Luckily (with possibly me disturbing them as I was trying to film them on my phone) they let go of each other and flew away. 



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Post for yesterday 1st April.

Whilst on my break at work on Broadway I noticed a couple of pigeons flying past with a peregrine right behind them, they were soon out of view, within several minutes there was the peregrine with a kill flying over the building next to my works (Kerry logistics) & landing on it but out of my view. All the gulls that were around were then getting noisey & flying around. I decided to walk through my works & go out to the other car park where I could then see the peregrine plucking away, gulls still not happy.



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Peregrine currently sitting on 'BEYOND' overlooking motorway.

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2 Peregrine currently in the usual spot on the 'BEYOND' building, on and off through the morning.

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Quick wander around the Ecology Park as I was passing.

1 Chiffchaff singing
2 Bullfinch (pair)
2 Teal (pair)
1 Buzzard
1 Lesser Black Backed Gull
6 Canada Goose
7 Coot
4 Moorhen
2 Mallard
1 Fox


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2 Peregrine currently sitting on the 'BEYOND' building, on the side lettering facing The Trafford Centre.

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Peregrine hunting around 'Beyond' building this morning, also a steady movement of Woodpigeon earlier, 150 over in 15 minutes.
20 Geese high up, looked like Pink-footed Geese over west.

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Trafford Centre and Beyond/iFly area 13:45 - 14:30

  • Black-headed Gull 16
  • Blackbird 2
  • Carrion Crow 8
  • Feral Pigeon 12
  • Goldfinch 3
  • Great Tit 2
  • Greenfinch 1
  • Jackdaw 4
  • Long-tailed Tit 1
  • Magpie 7
  • Robin 5
  • Woodpigeon 1
  • Wren 2


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2 Peregrine sitting on the 'Beyond' letters or on top of the building during the morning also 25 Lapwing over.

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2 Peregrine sitting on the 'Beyond' letters at 8.15 in this mornings gloom!

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Hi martin, I have reason to believe that this bird is one of the media city pair & possibly the female but I still could be wrong. Definitely not the media city male as he has a longer than average bill & this bird on the tower, which I have been seeing a lot of lately looks like a bigger female.
The 3rd peregrine you have seen may be this one in the photo attached which I have seen lately hanging around, a much younger bird.


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The past two days Ive been working delivering all over Trafford park.

I still can't work out if the Peregrine that I see occasionally perched the Chimney is one of the BBC ones or not, yet I keep seeing 3 flying around the area. I'm sure one is a young one that keeps getting chased out of the territory. 

Yesterday around the ecology park I saw 3 buzzard's high up and two kestrels displaying and squabbling with a peregrine.

Today and yesterday I've seen a large female sparrowhawk hunting around and on the addidas factory. 



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2 Peregrine still around the 'BEYOND' building or adjacent pylons this morning.

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2 Peregrine still today, finding food easy with a couple of nice plump pigeons taken this morning, they are tending to use the Pylons next to the 'BEYOND' building beside the motorway.

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That I imagine is Pablo, escaped from Sale over the weekend.. lol

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I was watching a flock of 200+ black-headed gulls wheeling over the Freightliner terminal when a scarlet macaw flew overhead. I suspect this might not be a Category A vagrant but it took my mind off Lockdown forcing me to dip on the cackling goose.



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Peregrine falcon still continues to show on my way home from work just after 2pm whilst driving down Trafford park road monday, Tuesday & today. I paid a brief visit on sunday afternoon & got some distant photos. I do believe this now could well be one of the media city pair.
Also today a buzzard was being mobbed by 3 crows over the ecology park.

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A peregrine falcon continues to be seen regularly now around chep uk on village way, was seen 3 times last week, monday, thursday & Friday when coming home from work & seen again today when going to work around 1.15pm.

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Just for the record as it's actually out of Trafford Park in Davyhulme but a Peregrine that I assume is one of these has over the weekend and also today been hunting over the Davyhulme Millennium Nature Reserve - a spectacular dive earlier saw it take a Wood Pigeon, the speed was simply breath taking  



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2 Peregrines again today on the BEYOND letters for most of the morning.

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