2 herons nests with calling young 1 garden warbler with grub in beak 2 reed warblers singing 1 sedge warbler 1 pair reed bunting male very active .2 juv reed bunting one trying out it's flyng skills lots of whitethroats chiffchaff's
blackcaps chiff chafs 1 willow wabler singing 3 whitehroat 1 g.s woodpecker 1 male reed bunting (near ivygreen) 1 tree creper (heronry) 1 view of reed warlber , then the heavens opened so no visit to dole ees 1 drowned rat with mud on his bins
2 reed warbler singing (1 viewed) possible 3 1 lesser whitethroat 6+ whitethroat 1 blackcap chiff chaffs 1 reed bunting could only view one juv heron , hard to see the nests now
last year there was a fair few sedge warblers nesting in chorlton ees so sign of them this year
chorlton ees on a sunny afternoon reed warbler (singing) 3 whitethroat chiff chaff's blackcaps grt spotted woodpecker reed bunting male could only see 3 herons on nest , harder to see nests with more foliage , one was feeding three young 1 swallow over the mersey 1 comorant on the mersey catching a few small fish
1 Reed Warbler singing from phragmites at the meadow pond 4 occupied Heron nests, at least three containing young ( 7 counted in total ) 2 Reed Bunting 1 Treecreeper 55+ Magpie in the cattle field 3 Sand Martin over 1Willow Warbler Chiffchaffs Blackcaps 1 singing Goldcrest 1 female Sparrowhawk
2 Skylark flew north over Turn Moss playing fields
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chorlton ees (afternoon) 1 g s woodpecker 4 herons on nests 7 chiff chaff singing, no other warblers though 1 grey wagtail (on mersey) dole ees 2 liitle ringed plover ( togther, one having a bath) 1 snipe 2 lapwing 2 teal 2 chiff chaff