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Brun Clough Reservoir, Oldham
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Yesterday
Thick fog at noon

2 Oystercatcher
Lapwing
Curlew
2 Canada Geese


Today 8.30-9.30am - Bright sunshine - much more productive!

2 Wheatear
1 Redshank
5 Curlew
7 Lapwing
2 Oystercatcher
Snipe
5 Mallard
2 Canada Geese
2 Moorhen
10+ Meadow Pipit
2 Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
20 Starling
5 Reed Bunting
Skylark
2 Fieldfare west
4 Lesser Black-backed Gull west
2 Black-headed Gull
40+ Woodpigeon west inc. flock of 34
3 Stock Dove
2 Magpie
4 Jackdaw
20+ Carrion Crow
Raven


-- Edited by Steve W Johnson on Sunday 25th of March 2012 12:53:47 PM

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Mark Rigby


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Wheatear on dam banking near metal gate at 1640hrs. (info Tony Mather)

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Steve W Johnson


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4.45-5.30

Great weather for once!

2 Oystercatcher
3 Curlew
7 Lapwing
4 Mallard
4 Carrion Crow
8 Meadow Pipit
2 Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
4 Stock Dove
24 Starling
2 Reed Bunting (m,f)

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Steve W Johnson


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Yesterday
Much as Mark plus
Redshank
2 Reed Bunting (females)

Today 4.15-4.30pm
Very windy
2 Tufted duck (m+f) on small pond by ruin
Moorhen
Curlew
10 Carrion Crow
2 Mallard

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Mark Rigby


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1500-1630

13 Lapwing
Moorhen
4 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
Kestrel
5 Meadow Pipit
Stock Dove
Woodpigeon
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
2 Mallard

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Dave Colton


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I never seem to see much here but yesterday afternoon:

18 Lapwing on the car park shore.
1 pair of Mallard

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Mark Rigby


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Much the same as Steve but

13 Golden Plover (2,5,6) flyovers

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Steve W Johnson


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8-9am

3 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
9 Lapwing
50+ Carrion crow
2 Raven - showed interest in sheep carcass but moved on
2 Mapgie
3 Stock Dove
2 Pied Wagtail
2 Mallard
2 Canada Goose
1 Moorhen
1 Dunnock
1 Reed Bunting (Male)
1 Mistle Thrush
20 Starling
5 Skylark

Could well be the most species seen in one visit by me!

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After several recent fruitless visits.......

3 Curlew
4 Lapwing
2 Oystercatcher
20 Starling
Magpie
25 Carrion Crow
Pied Wagtail

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First visit of the new year 2.15-3pm

12 Carrion Crow
1 Black Headed Gull
3 stock dove over

c.100 pink-footed geese west at 2.45pm!

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Late morning

2 Tufted Duck
2 Rook
12 Goldfinch
2 Magpie
3 Starling

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5.15-6pm

12 Mallard
c. 40 Goldfinch on thistles
Snipe
10 Carrion crow
3 Mapgie
2 Woodpigeon
1 Pied wagtail
5 Meadow pipit
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull west

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Mark Rigby


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Juv Hobby over the Clough at 1015hrs flew SE.

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Steve W Johnson


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5-6pm
Warm sunshine!

c. 35 Goldfinch feeding on thistles
15 Mallard
Moorhen
Snipe
50+ Meadow pipit mostly moving east
Magpie
2 Carrion crow

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3pm-4pm

2 Tufted duck
21 Mallard
1 Wheatear
1 Grey Heron
10+ Swallow
4 Lesser Black-Backed Gull over west
3 Magpie
2 Meadow Pipit
1 Pied Wagtail

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3 Wheatear sheltering from the wind on Walls below the dam at lunchtime.

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Steve W Johnson


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From carpark in rain, 7am

3 Tufted Duck
2 Mallard
3 Carrion Crow

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Early morning in rain, wind and low cloud

Dunlin
3 Tufted Duck
6 Mallard
7 Meadow Pipit
4 Wheatear
7 Rook


-- Edited by Mark Rigby on Thursday 8th of September 2011 11:50:43 AM

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Steve W Johnson


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10 min in the rain/wind/rain/wind, 6-6.10pm

19 mallard
2 tufted duck
1 stock dove over - being blown into Yorkshire, like it or not!



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Mark Rigby wrote:



but dont go gripping me off.....Karen Foulkes is already doing a good job of that!

Cheers

Riggers






-- Edited by Matt Potter on Tuesday 6th of September 2011 08:06:19 AM

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Mark Rigby wrote:

Hi Steve,

nice to have somebody else covering the patch, but dont go gripping me off.....Karen Foulkes is already doing a good job of that!

Cheers

Riggers




Who me?



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Hi Steve,

nice to have somebody else covering the patch, but dont go gripping me off.....Karen Foulkes is already doing a good job of that!

Cheers

Riggers

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Steve Johnson here, referrred to in Mark's post from 10 July. I live over in Marsden...

Late news from yesterday, Sunday 4th Sep:

Jay over w
Sparrowhawk over w
(Both new for me at Brun Clough!)

6 teal over e
whinchat still present on posts at 6pm
4 wheatear
2 kestrel
tufted duck
moorhen
2 stock dove
30+ swallows




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Karen Foulkes wrote:

1250-1600

1 Raven over
6 Wheatear
10 Mallard on res
6 Mallard on small pool (as per Riggers)
1 Tufted Duck on res
2 Cormorant
1 Kestrel




You were committed!

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Whinchat at 1300hrs on large wooden posts below the tunnel air shaft, also

4 Wheatear
3 Magpie
6 Mallard
Moorhen (juv)
Small passage of Swallow.

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6 Wheatear in the area this morning and a steady passage of Swallows and Meadow Pipits flying south/south-west.

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1250-1600

1 Raven over
6 Wheatear
10 Mallard on res
6 Mallard on small pool (as per Riggers)
1 Tufted Duck on res
2 Cormorant
1 Kestrel

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Mark Rigby


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No sign of yesterday's Whinchat but Merlin through s/w at 0630hrs.

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late afternoon/early evening

2 Whinchat (Ad+juv)
5 Wheatear

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Tree Pipit over Brun Clough at 1330 flying s/e. Also in the area,
Teal
Kestrel
Dunnock
Coal Tit
6 Wheatear

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I'd heard rumours that you had hired a JCB and excavated the banks of the reservoir to make it five times its previous size

How's the tree planting going?

Steve

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Mark Rigby


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Are you ready for this Mr.Suttill?

57 birds on the reservoir consisting of
42 Canada Goose
10 Mallard
5 Tufted Duck

Also in the area

2 Kestrel
2 Moorhen
5 Wheatear

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4 Wheatear and a steady passage of Swallows early evening.
5 Tufted Duck and 2 Mallard on the reservoir.

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Late afternoon

6 Wheatear
5 Woodpigeon
2 Mallard

Not bad for an hours work

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Mid afternoon.

Wheatear
Moorhen with 2nd brood of 2 chicks.

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late afternoon

5 Wheatear
Swift

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Mid morning

Little Ringed Plover
2 Oystercatcher
Several Lapwing with young
2 Wheatear
Juv Grey Wagtail
2 Kestrel
Moorhen


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though I'm still sticking to "eat all, sup all, pay nowt"

Steve

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So we've heard !

Roger.

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Mark Rigby wrote:

1915-2040

3 Golden Plover-thanks for the info (Steve?) a jolly nice chap for a Yorkshireman




t'weren't me, Mark...

though I have adapted my grandad's favourite saying to " 'ear all, see all, tell yon Riggers" though I'm still sticking to "eat all, sup all, pay nowt"

Steve

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1915-2040

Oystercatcher
Curlew
Lapwing
3 Mallard
4 Common Sandpiper
Wheatear
3 Golden Plover-thanks for the info (Steve?) a jolly nice chap for a Yorkshireman

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2030-2200

Lapwing with chicks
Curlew
Dunlin
Common Sandpiper
Snipe
Oystercatcher
Wheatear

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Hi Steve,

No sign of the Tufties since the evening of 21/7. A female and brood have appeared at Castleshaw and do the same thing-"now you see me, now you dont......" for days at a time.

Must just be sitting tight in the junctus between feeds.

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... or Brunclough as the British Waterways sign wrongly has it (shades of another Dove Stone or Dovestone/s controversy! )

an hour at lunchtime in between rain showers:

2 very noisy Oystercatchers
4 slightly less noisy Lapwing
2 rather quiet Common Sandpipers
distant Curlew sounds

no Tufted Duck - has anyone else seen the brood?

Strange sight of a Wheatear "hanging" on the wind like a Buzzard!

Steve

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Mark Rigby


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1630-1745

2 Common Sandpiper
5 Oystercatcher Inc 3 fast growing chicks
5 Lapwing
Meadow Pipit
Pied Wagtail

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Hey, get off my patch!

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Wednesday evening 7 until 8-45pm no sign of hobby, just oystercatcher, common sandpiper and a few wheatear.

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Tuesday at 8-00 pm a hobby flew up the valley passing the reservoir scattering some meadow pipits and disappearing over the Pennine way, by 8-45pm it had not reappeared. Also a dunlin and oystercatchers there.

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was up last night but only saw 1 oystercatcher and 2 common sandpipers and mark had a hobby

-- Edited by stuartherring on Sunday 26th of June 2011 09:37:54 PM

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Thanks for the call Mark, but the Hobby's not passed over my garden yet.
Are you sure you pointed it in the right direction?

Steve

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