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by gary lilley
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Early breeding .
Replies: 0
Views: 55

Early breeding .

A male blackbird seen collecting worms several times in a Hoghton garden today .
by gary lilley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Out and about .
Replies: 0
Views: 45

Out and about .

Got the white wagtail and the wheatear this morning ( thanks to everyone) also seen 4 gc grebe , 1 little egret , 2 gc grebe at the e shaped ponds and a singing chiffchaff .
2 new ticks brings me up to 93 species .
by gary lilley
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Croston / mawdesley moss .
Replies: 0
Views: 141

Croston / mawdesley moss .

20 golden plover dropped in on the great close field , 200 woodpigeon , 2 little egret , 100 linnet ,2 mandarin , 10 moorhen , 4 chiffchaff , 9 collard dove , 2 small flocks of tree sparrows , 1 song thrush . Twin lakes / sewage works , 2 oystercatcher , 1 little egret , 4 meadow pipit , 4 pied wagt...
by gary lilley
Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:42 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Common Scoter
Replies: 3
Views: 365

Re: Common Scoter

Just been in the garden for a while, heard an oystercatcher and possible scoters , last night heard an unidentified bird may have been a moorhen .
by gary lilley
Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Twin lakes/sewage works
Replies: 0
Views: 68

Twin lakes/sewage works

1 green sandpiper , 2 oystercatcher , 4 gc grebes , 4 pied wagtail , small flock of bh gulls , 1 chiffchaff , no sign of any hirundines yet .
by gary lilley
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:59 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Croston / mawdesley moss .
Replies: 1
Views: 163

Croston / mawdesley moss .

3 chiffchaff , 3 goosander , 4 teal , 1 shelduck , 6 oystercatcher , 2 heron , lapwings , 1 buzzard , 1 kestrel , several pairs of mallard , 2 raven , 2 curlew ,yellowhammer singing , 2 reed bunting , wren , blackbird , song thrush , gs pecker, pied wagtail , grey wagtail , meadow pipit , moorhen . ...
by gary lilley
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Healy lodges.
Replies: 0
Views: 62

Healy lodges.

2/3 chiffchaff in the area , 7 tufted duck , 2 gadwall , several coot and moorhen , 1 mute swam .
by gary lilley
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Bits and bobs .
Replies: 0
Views: 72

Bits and bobs .

Twin lakes/sewage works , 2 gc grebe on the first lake , 2 oystercatcher , 1 green sandpiper , 4 mallard , 2 lb bgulls , 70 linnet , 1 lt tit , chiffchaff heard from croston reed bed . Croston finney , plenty of displying lapwing , 14 oystercatcher , 100 golden plover , 2 shelduck , 3 cormorant , 20...
by gary lilley
Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Croston / mawdesley moss .
Replies: 0
Views: 55

Croston / mawdesley moss .

Barn owl hunting at 5.00pm , along the river 15 oystercatcher , 1 redshank , 4 teal , no golden plover , lapwings , 1 shelduck , 3 skylark , 3 moorhen .
by gary lilley
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:52 am
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Croston / mawdesley moss .
Replies: 0
Views: 77

Croston / mawdesley moss .

Quick visit in the rain , golden plover were present on the great close ( some birds displaying) difficult to count plus the usual lapwing .
Eyes lane , 10+ shelduck , little egret , oystercatcher .
by gary lilley
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:49 am
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Webs Count
Replies: 4
Views: 630

Re: Webs Count

Park hall lake , 5 mallard , 5 teal , 2 b h gull , 1 imm male goosander , 1 moorhen . Twin lakes , 4 g c grebes , 6 mallard , 1 cormorant , on the flooded fields and around the sewage works 3 oystercatcher , 10 snipe , 1 green sandpiper , 50 bh gulls , 2 herring gulls , 20 redwing , 3 reed bunting ,...
by gary lilley
Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Croston / mawdesley moss .
Replies: 2
Views: 126

Croston / mawdesley moss .

Early morning visit , around 50 golden plover looked to land on the great close field , no sign of the godwits when i walked past the compound flood , pair of grey partridge , 10 chaffinch , 1 yellowhammer , small flock of fieldfare .
by gary lilley
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:52 am
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Out and about .
Replies: 1
Views: 242

Out and about .

Eshaped ponds at dawn , arrived a bit late ( all birds already in song 6.10am ) song thrush , blackbird , 2 cettis warbler , 1 woodcock flushed , mallard , canada goose and coot . Eyes lane , 15 shelduck on main flood , 1 cormorant , spotted a female mallard in distress the problem being a weasel it...
by gary lilley
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Croston / mawdesley moss .
Replies: 0
Views: 236

Croston / mawdesley moss .

Brief visit at dusk ,20+ magpie going to roost along the railway line , 1 snipe , 2 skylark , several mallard , pair of kestrel .
by gary lilley
Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:42 pm
Forum: Recent Sightings
Topic: Bits and bobs .
Replies: 0
Views: 148

Bits and bobs .

Yv park ,1 dipper seen in flight along the river. Common bank lodge 3 goosander. Eccleston/heskin area , 1 fem stonechat along bannister green , several goldcrest , large flock of around 1000 starling feeding on wet fields near to parkhall woods , 1 yellowhammer singing along red lane . Garden birds...

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