Anyone in Warrington whos out and about check Milner street for Waxwings has the berries are perfect and in abundance has waxwings have been seen at Lowton this morning,so Milner street has always been the top spot in Warrington -anyone who goes please update ,I have been checking has I live close ,but am at work all week,so can't get to check .

 

Possible Little Egret seen very briefly flying over Town Centre at 4pm

approx 120 Pink-Footed Geese west at 09:33

2 Skylark N over Golden Square

A Tree Pipit flew over Decathlon on Winwick Road at 13.00 this afternoon

Collared Dove seen on Crosfield Street next to Bank Park yesterday evening

Willow warbler briefly singing in sycamore tree in my garden at 12:00

Red Kite drifting NE 10.30 am over Tesco extra Warrington :) Put all the gulls up from the top of the Asda Warehouse opposite ,where it looked like there was well over 500 large gulls roosting . :)

Good selection of Birds seen from the garden today at various points in time -central Warrington

Fieldfare-2

Mistle thrush-1

Great spotted Woodpecker- 1m

Chaffinch-4

Coal Tit-2

Great Tit -2

Blue Tit-6

Collared Dove-7

Magpie-3

Sparrowhawk-1

Wren -1

Dunnock-2

Blackbird-2

Robin-1

:)

not got a clue why im double spaced

 

Great garden bird last night - a male tawny owl could be heard hooting at around 22:05 in padgate

Raven this afternoon over the Sankey Bridges area flying towards Arpley Tip

5pm

A single flock of 28 Cormorants flying West over Bridge Foot.

Peregrine just gone over our garden in the centre of warrington being harrased by a lesser black backed gull headed towards the halliwell jones stadium.
:)

-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 5th of April 2015 04:30:49 PM

JOHN TYMON wrote:

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The area were the twite are reported was a local patch of mine for almost 10 years, its very doubtful that there would be twite flocks there. The linnet flocks were always there in winter and sometimes the 1st winter birds can be mistaken for twite. I never saw twite there in the 10 years I covered the area . It was a good area in summer for Ringed plover as well as a few other waders. Also green sandpiper and good numbers of little grebes on the Brook and I had a few Pied Flycatchers and a Hen Harrier once in the valley there :)

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I think you are right John. The occasional Little Grebe is still seen on the brook, but the other species seem long gone unfortunately

Sankey Valley Park, area north of new water treatment works: This morning at first light, there were 70+ Magpies in a noisy communal roost. The birds dispersed in small groups in all directions. The numbers of this species has been steadily growing recently in this area. Quite an impressive sight, but at what cost to small breeding birds this spring?

Also, apparently there have been reports (from a reliable source) of a flock of Twite on the open ground north of the treatment plant, that was until recently fenced off. I have not personally seen the Twite, but there is usually a mixed flock of Linnet, Meadow Pipit and Grey & Pied Wagtails there as well as Stock Doves. Whilst there is constant disturbance from dog walkers, this area is hardly watched, so this could potentially be a rich location for seeing interesting birds!

Raven-2.45 pm over our House very low, being chased by carrion crows almost landed in the garden at our house in central warrington-good garden tick if I did those sort of things,which I don't . I remember the days when you would have to go to Central Wales or the Lakes to see a Raven crackin' bird

-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 11th of January 2015 05:04:06 PM

1 Hawfinch flew over garden (padgate) around 10:10

Good visible migration over my garden (padgate) , weekend counts:

54 woodpigeon, 1 linnet, 11 magpie, 3 robin, 3 blue tit, 7 blackbird, 6 carrion crow, 29 pied wagtail, 34 meadow pipit, 296 lesser black-backed gull, 2 buzzard, 28 feral pigeon,
1 mistle thrush, 1 wren, 15 greenfinch, 13 house sparrow, 38 starling, 9 collared dove, 2 jay, 1 great-spotted woodpecker, 96 black-headed gull, 17 goldfinch, 2 whooper swan ,
2 oystercatcher, 1 sparrowhawk, 3 goldcrest, 3 great tit, 7 chaffinch, 191 herring gull, 10 jackdaw, 1 mediterranean gull, 5 redwing, 4 fieldfare, 5 siskin,
30 pink-footed goose, 1 common gull, 2 long-tailed tit, 1 dunnock, 1 grey heron.

(Bold means unusual for the garden)

1 Swallow & 2 Grey Wagtails in Sankey Valley Park this morning

JOHN TYMON wrote:

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I will now be known forever as the birdman of Alkatraz as that what we call our factory as its like a prison :)

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I hope your boss(the warden)is not reading this.
Cheers Ian

Nick Isherwood wrote:

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Whereabouts is Puddington Meadows please?

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Nick I have asked David the same question although I suspect he means Paddington Meadows at WA1 3LU.

1.30-3.30pm Sun 31.8.14

No less than 3 spotted flycatchers on full and easy view for my camera this afternoon at Puddington meadow west. They made sallies for insects between the most westerly pylons (one pylon had a peregrine with its victim briefly perched on top), and the riverside footpath. They sat high in the bushes (at the edges) making regular sallies.

Other birds of note where a female blackcap and 2 noisy but beautiful jays, whilst a kingfisher was heard flying along the river.

Hobby south over our garden in central warrington at 8pm last night headed over bank park and away towards crossfields.
:)

Chiffchaff and willow warbler heard from garden today and the sparrowhawk has passed over and circled twice now.


-- Edited by Daniel Owen on Monday 7th of April 2014 08:33:44 PM

Late post for yesterday 15.02.14 16.30

Callands

2 Collared Doves were lazily strolling around in the middle of the road, I had to almost stop to avoid running over them, then a third bird seemed to join them.

Immediately the two doves flew off to the left, the third bird swung around to the right, it was a large Sparrowhawk, probably female.

2 more doves appeared from behind, the hawk turned 180 degrees and pursued these doves, which plunged into the safety of a nearby bush.

The Sparrowhawk then broke off the attack and disappeared over the rooftops.

It was all over in a few seconds, the hawks speed was breathtaking, the doves were lucky, the presence of my probably saved the doves on the road.

You don't need to be on a reserve to enjoy wildlife drama, it's all around.

Collared Doves do seem a bit dozy, especially during courtship, little wonder they are a top prey species for Sparrowhawks.