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...

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...

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...

*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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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. ...

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...

Well done on another ton !

Holker Lane 21/3 8-845pm
One group of *Common Scoter over about 2013 with couple of other possible groups but more distant with breeze making it difficult.
Also Tawny Owl, Teal, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Moorhen, Heron, Snipe and Jackdaw

*Scoter takes me to 108 species for the year.

Good spot and nice way to bring up your ton !