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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Coppull
- Replies: 3
- Views: 162
Re: Coppull
Another century - congrats.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:44 am
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Wymott
- Replies: 4
- Views: 173
Re: Wymott
Well done on the century !
This morning managed 20 of Pete’s 39 *Whimbrel and his *Lesser Whitethroat too.
*2 more takes me to 125 species for the year.
This morning managed 20 of Pete’s 39 *Whimbrel and his *Lesser Whitethroat too.
*2 more takes me to 125 species for the year.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:42 am
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane and Croston Finney/Great Close
- Replies: 1
- Views: 96
Eyes Lane and Croston Finney/Great Close
Eyes Lane Muck heaps area 6 Wheatear. 1 Corn Bunting. 1 Yellowhammer. 20 Meadow Pipit. Red Bridge 1 *Common Sandpiper - unusual eye level view as it climbed towards me on the bridge calling and when within 10m, shot off upstream after spotting me ! 3 Shelduck Compound to Great Close 3 Sand Martin ov...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Out and about 14/4
- Replies: 0
- Views: 215
Out and about 14/4
Eyes Lane (2 visits) Muck heaps held 4 Wheatear, 1 Yellowhammer and some Meadow pipit. Pied Wagtail 1. Reed Bunting 1. Corn bunting 4 and 20-30 Meadow Pipit close by. 6 Sand Martin through north. 1 Swallow. Croston/Mawdesley Moss *Dunlin 1 flew in to the compound field flood 840am but gone by 1015am...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Out and about
- Replies: 0
- Views: 53
Out and about
Eyes Lane Wheatear 6 Gadwall pair on small puddle downstream from bridge Shelduck 3 Croston & Mawdesley Moss Wheatear 2 Grey Partridge 4 Blackcap 3 Willow Warbler. Chiffchaff Yellowhammer 3 Linnet 10 Pink Footed Goose c80 + 25 over. Greylag Goose 4. Canada Goose 2 Oystercatcher 3. Redshank 1. Ro...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Summer migrants Wymott this a.m.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 166
Re: Summer migrants Wymott this a.m.
*Whitethroat still present this evening by the brook towards the flood. Also, *Grasshopper Warbler reeling at dusk. Sparrowhawk over, Buzzard and a noisy corvid roost ! Earlier out east, Woodcock seen in daytime flight. *2 others this morning plus this evening’s warblers takes me to 121 species for ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane
- Replies: 0
- Views: 66
Eyes Lane
Late afternoon check to see if anything had been blown in by the storms. River Douglas levels were the highest I recall for a long time with tide line only about 1m under the bank edges in places ! Only waders were 3 Lapwing. 15-20 Black Headed Gulls. 1 White Wagtail. 1m Wheatear. 2 Red Legged Partr...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Ring Ouzel
- Replies: 0
- Views: 101
Ring Ouzel
Lunchtime visit 1230-115 to Rattan Clough and managed to relocate Stephen Field’s earlier male *Ring Ouzel after quite a bit of squelching through the very wet and muddy conditions. Initially only heard its chack chack call but then took me a further 10 minutes to locate the Ouzel on a fence post ne...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Out and about
- Replies: 0
- Views: 153
Out and about
Eyes Lane Little Egret 2 (one pretending to be a Cattle Egret with the horses !) No waders The escaped Ringed Teal dropped into a ditch by the new build house. Meadow Lane No waders. Wheatear 1m Lower Rivington Reservoir No sign of Neville’s Common Sandpiper Oystercatcher 2 Grey Heron 1 Great Creste...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Sandwich Tern !
- Replies: 1
- Views: 356
Sandwich Tern !
Highlight (and shock !) of the morning was a *Sandwich Tern on Lower Rivington Reservoir :D First picked up at 915am flying south only about 50m from the road shore. Despite closeness to shore, it appeared as a large mainly white tern with short forked tail and dark bill. Then as it passed in front ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane and Wymott
- Replies: 1
- Views: 77
Eyes Lane and Wymott
Quick lunchtime visits to both
Eyes Lane
Oystercatcher 1. Shelduck 2. Little Egret 1.
Wymott
*Willow Warbler 1 seen singing
Blackcap 2. Chiffchaff 5+
*1 more takes me to 114 species for the year.
Eyes Lane
Oystercatcher 1. Shelduck 2. Little Egret 1.
Wymott
*Willow Warbler 1 seen singing
Blackcap 2. Chiffchaff 5+
*1 more takes me to 114 species for the year.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Twin lakes/sewage works
- Replies: 1
- Views: 101
Re: Twin lakes/sewage works
Certainly were easily overlooked but eventually found both *Swallow 3 and *Sand Martin 1 but at the opposite western end. Further Swallow (or one of the same) on wires by level crossing. Also Little Egret 1. Little Egret also on the main Eyes Lane flood. *2 more takes me to 113 species for the year.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Out and about
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
Out and about
Belmont Reservoir Black Tailed Godwit 1. Curlew 2. Oystercatcher 5-7. Redshank 1 Herring Gull c20. LBB Gull 4. GBB Gull 1 Wymott *Blackcap 1m singing. Chiffchaff lots. Raven 2 in display flight over. Great Crested Grebe 1. Bullfinch 1 pair Carr Brook Green Sandpiper 1. Oystercatcher 23. Redshank 7. ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Out and about
- Replies: 0
- Views: 158
Out and about
22/3 Compound field flood 1 pair of Gadwall early evening 24/3 Belmont Reservoir Curlew 4. GBB Gull 2. Greylag/Canada goose. North end of Anglezarke Oystercatcher 2. GBB Gull 2. Buzzard 7-8. Kestrel pair. Teal 6. Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming. Nuthatch 2. Grey Heron 2. No sign of the Green Woodp...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Mawdesley and Croston Moss
- Replies: 3
- Views: 163
Re: Mawdesley and Croston Moss
Well done on another ton !