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I had to go and see this Wood duck today, not seen one before - escapee or not- it's still a lifer tick!

Found the Wood duck showing well on main lake at first, but he flew off and remained concealed on an island on the other pool shortly after. Talk about good timing- another 5 minutes delay and I would have missed out on any pictures....

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Drake North American Wood Duck and drake Goosander on Alexandra Park Lakes

Info thanks to Mark Shuttleworth

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Alexandra Park / Snipe Clough

Drake North American Wood Duck
10 Tufted Ducks
1 Cormorant
2 Reed Bunting
3 Siskin
4 Redwing
6 Goldcrest
1 Meadow Pipit

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Wood duck still present with a flock of canada geese near the cafe this afternoon at 4pm.

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I wonder what relationship (if any) this bird has to the one at Strinesdale several years ago, one of many 'ornamentals' to escape from a collection on the pond at Hull Brook in Delph?

-- Edited by Mike Chorley on Monday 18th of October 2021 08:38:28 PM

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Drake North American Wood Duck still present on Alexandra Park Lakes

Photo thanks to Rachel Marie

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Alexandra Park

Drake North American Wood Duck
17 Tufted Ducks


Snipe Clough

1 Goldcrest
1 Sparrowhawk
c50 Pink-footed Geese east at 1:40pm

Photo thanks to Mark Shuttleworth

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Drake North American Wood Duck still present on the lakes, also 15 Tufted Ducks

Photo thanks to David Jackjack

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Tuesday 12th October 2021

Drake North American Wood Duck still present on Alexandra Park lakes

Information and photos thanks to Mark Shuttleworth

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Drake North American Wood Duck, un-ringed and fully-winged, commuting between the two lakes

Also 15 Tufted Ducks on the lakes and c50 Pink-footed Geese east

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Wednesday 18th August 2021

The Tufted Ducks seem to be doing ok with several females and juveniles on-site

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Tuesday 20th July 2021

Three female Tufted Ducks with youngsters - broods of five, two and two - on Alexandra Park Lakes on the top lake

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Tuesday 13th July 2021

Tufted Ducks have bred successfully on Alexandra Park Lakes - two brief counts suggested up to four females with broods of seven, four, two and one (might need a proper count for exact numbers), also 1 Swift

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Snipe Clough 07/06/21

Coot with 2 chicks.
Sparrowhawk
Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin all in song
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Wren
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch


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Saturday 22nd May 2021

8 Tufted Ducks (5 drakes and 3 females) on Alexandra Park Lakes

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Singing Grasshopper Warbler still present on Snipe Clough

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Tuesday 18th May

10 Tufted Ducks on Alexandra Park Lakes

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1 Whitethroat on Snipe Clough

8 Tufted Ducks on Alexandra Park Lakes

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8 Swallows on the lakes, also 10 Tufted Ducks

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10 Tufted Ducks (6 drakes) on Alexandra Park Lakes

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International Dawn Chorus Day 2021

Singing Grasshopper Warbler Snipe Clough in the juncus marsh near the pond just south of Alexandra Park, also 1 singing Whitethroat, 10 singing Willow Warblers and 5 singing Chiffchaffs

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22 Tufted Ducks - Alexandra Park Lakes

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Up to 5 singing Chiffchaffs on Snipe Clough

23 Tufted Ducks - Alexandra Park Lakes

1 singing Blackcap on Snipe Clough on Friday 2nd April

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Singing Chiffchaff - Snipe Clough

30 Tufted Ducks - Alexandra Park Lakes

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3 Goosanders (2 drakes) and 33 Tufted Ducks on Alexandra Park Lakes also 2 Buzzards from the Snipe Clough viewpoint

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1 Goosander
33 Tufted Ducks
2 Mute Swans

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5 Goosander
28 Tufted Ducks
2 Mute Swans

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The drake Gadwall still present on Alexandra Park Lakes on the upper lake early afternoon, plus 4 Goosander, 26 Tufted Ducks and 2 Mute Swans

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Drake Gadwall still present on Alexandra Park Lakes at 3:18pm

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Drake Gadwall
2 Goosander
26 Tufted Ducks

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Took my walk this way today as a change from Werneth Park. Fishing lake 3/4 frozen, 'duckpond'2/3rds. Reasonably busy but managable, although more people were arriving as I left.

Grey Heron sharing a tree on the duck pond islands with the most adventurous of 8 Moorhens. 2 of the 3 Coot were on the 'duck pond' as well, as were the majority of the C200 Black-headed Gulls. Mixed in were 8 Common Gulls, 3 Herring Gulls (1x3rd Winter and 2x1st Winter) and 1 adult Lesser Black-backed Gull.

100+ Canada Geese on the fishing lake, with the majority of c50 Mallard and 14 Tufted Duck.

Also 2 Mute Swans. Elsewhere 1 Mistle Thrush in song, 1 Blackbird and several each of Blue Tits, Great Tits and Robins in the shrubbery

-- Edited by Mike Chorley on Sunday 10th of January 2021 11:10:32 AM

-- Edited by Mike Chorley on Sunday 10th of January 2021 11:11:07 AM

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Alexandra Park Lakes

2 Mute Swan
23 Tufted Ducks

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Alexandra Park Lakes

5 Goosander
11 Tufted Duck
2 Mute Swan

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Late sighting for 3pm on Thu 26-Nov-20

Not exactly Alexandra Park, but was being driven along Oldham Way on the way back from Dovestones when I saw a flock of two of Feral Pigeons scattering from the Spindles shopping centre. I suspected that there might be a Peregine might be around, when a sizeable female (somewhat bigger than the pigeons it was chasing) flashed over Oldham way in pursuit.

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Female Wigeon
6 Goosander (1 drake)
17 Tufted Ducks
4 Mute Swan

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Female Wigeon
3 Goosanders (1 drake)
16 Tufted Ducks
4 Mute Swans

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4 Mute Swans and 13 Tufted Ducks on the Park Lakes

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Another visit to Snipe Clough, where the effects of this dry weather are clear from the fact that the small pool has dried out in just under a week. At least 4 Chiffchaff singing, 2 Willow Warblers, 8 Blackcap (one doing Robin and Yellowhammer) including a pair in what looked like a courtship chase, which sounded like it might have been successful biggrin, plus Jay, Blackbird, genuine Robins, Wrens, and Song Thrush. On the way back I saw male Bullfinch, adding to the sightings list of Magpie, Jackdaw, Wood Pigeon, Dunnock, Goldfinch and Collared Dove.

I popped in to Alexandra Park as well and noted 2 Adult and one juvenile Grey Heron around the lakes along with uncounted Mallard, Tufted Duck and Canada Goose, with a few Black-headed Gulls. One of the Mallard had around 6 ducklings in tow.

One Peacock butterfly and a couple of Large Whites seen around Snipe Clough.

-- Edited by Mike Chorley on Tuesday 2nd of June 2020 10:22:26 PM

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Walked over to Snipe Clough - adjacent to the park - last night to check for Grasshopper Warbler. None heard and a walk round the area suggests that the habitat has dried out quite a bit since I last visited, which would explain why there was no sound of any on what would have been a perfect night. Other species seen
Bullfinch 1M
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Wood Pigeon
Blackbird
Jackdaw
Starling
and heard
Wren
Robin
Song Thrush
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Blue Tit
Willow Warbler
Jay

nearby 3 Swift over the trees to the north of the Clough, bringing my total for my evening walk to 11

Also 1 Fox

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2 Mute Swans and 11 Tufted Ducks - Alexandra Park Lakes

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Singing Chiffchaff - Snipe Clough

2 Mute Swans and 20 Tufted Ducks - Alexandra Park Lakes

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Monday 9th March 2020

2 drake Goosander
18 Tufted Ducks

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22 Tufted Ducks

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Recent highlights on-site, drake Goosander (Feb 28th), 2 Mute Swans (Feb 24th), a maximum of 20 Tufted Ducks (Feb 27th) and 27 Redwings also on Feb 27th in trees around the tennis courts

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Monday 3rd February

Drake Goosander and 17 Tufted Ducks

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1 Mute Swan
6 Goosander
22 Tufted Duck
3 Great Spotted Woodpecker
3 Nuthatch

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Wednesday 27th February 2019

1 Mute Swan
31 Tufted Ducks
8 Redwing in Donnelly's Hollow

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Red-head Goosander on the main lake, also 30 Tufted Ducks

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Drake Goosander giving superb views on the Upper Lake (aka "The Duck Pond")
8 Tufted Ducks on the Lower Lake
Also 1 Grey Wagtail and 4 Grey Heron

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9 Tufted Ducks, 1 Grey Wagtail and 4 Grey Heron

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30/05/18 Lunchtime

'Duck Pond'
Tufted Duck 6M 2F
Mallard 2M 1F
Coot 3 inc nesting pair
Moorhen nesting pair
Black-headed Gull 2 - adult and juvenile
Herring Gull 6 -of various sub-adult ages
Lesser Black-backed Gull C.60 of various ages up to adult
Canada Goose - lots!

Boating/Fishing Lake
Tufted Duck 7M 6F
Mallard 3M 2F
Canada Goose 6 including 1 pair keeping a watchful eye on 5 quite small goslings in the presence of
Grey Heron 2 (who have three well-grown but unfledged young of their own)

4 Swifts, in two pairs were over the park

Blackcap. Chiffchaff, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin and 2 Wrens were all singing around Donnelly's Hollow

Elsewhere
Goldcrest
Long-tailed Tit
Nuthatch
Jackdaw
Wood Pigeon
Feral Pigeon.



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