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- Mon Dec 04, 2017 3:26 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane Bretherton
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Eyes Lane Bretherton
12.15-1.00pm: Mute (4) & Whoopers (45), Pink-foots (skein over towards Rufford), Canada Goose, Shelduck (24), Teal, Mallard, Pheasant, Cormorant, Gr Heron (2), Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard (4), Moorhen, Coot, Lapwing, BH - LBB - Herring Gull, Woodpigeon, Kestrel, Crow, Skylark, LT Tit, Sta...
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 5:48 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Moors Circular
- Replies: 1
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Moors Circular
White Coppice - Brinscall woods - Great Hill - Lead Mines - White Coppice. 12 miles covered but not a lot of birds, esp on moors. Only a couple of kronking ravens, c snipe and a hardy shrew up on Spitlers Edge. Lower down - redwing, mistle thrush, GSW, kestrel, nuthatch, treecreeper, bullfinch, tit ...
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane - E-shaped ponds - Mawdesley Moss
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Eyes Lane - E-shaped ponds - Mawdesley Moss
9.30am Eyes Lane - 2 m shoveler, only Canada's on the flood but large skein of pink foots (several hundred) over, 4 mute & 2 whooper, GWE, gr heron, shelduck (8), grey wagtail, reed bunting (f). 10.15am E-shaped ponds bog - (exactly same sightings as previous posting ) many redwing and fieldfare...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 1:54 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Bretherton eyes floods .
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1310
Re: Bretherton eyes floods .
(9.15-11.00am) As per Gary and John for Eyes Lane sightings. Jury is still out on the green sandpiper though! Earlier (8.00am) had a trawl through the bog behind the e-shaped ponds - plenty of redwing and fieldfare on the hawthorns, kestrel, sparrowhawk, only single c snipe flushed, possible woodcoc...
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 2:46 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane floods
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1530
Re: Eyes Lane floods
1.00-1.45pm - similar sightings to Nora and Len (great picture of 'hunter' and 'hunted') - but no GWE, peregrine or merlin. Also, a great black-backed gull feeding off what looked like a dead rabbit on the banks of the Douglas. The nearby crows kept a respectful distance from the GBB, unlike a LBB g...
- Sat Nov 11, 2017 1:14 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Croston - Mawdesley Moss
- Replies: 2
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Croston - Mawdesley Moss
9.00-12.30 - huge numbers of pink foots (estimated 8000+) on flooded fields, periodically moving en masse. Small number of whoopers over and a mute with the pink foots. Also big flocks of starling, woodpigeon and lapwing, with smaller numbers of fieldfare and redwing. Counted 48 ruff with the lapwin...
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 5:20 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: YVP
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- Views: 655
YVP
Kronking raven over the lodges and a Top Lodge reed bunting (f) this lunchtime, amongst the usuals.
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:33 am
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Feeding station for Hawfinches .
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4272
Re: Feeding station for Hawfinches .
I met the Vis miggers above Georges Lane on Mon and the hawfinches were moving fast (and distant) in a westerly direction i.e. towards Chorley. I think they only got the first Manchester record shot (in flight) yesterday, so they do not appear to be hanging around.
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:23 am
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1158
Re: Eyes Lane
As per Gary & John, also a single ruff dropped on the flood. Huge numbers of pink foots over the mosses. Charlie, a counter for Hesketh Out Marsh, was passing and estimated upwards of 4,000.
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:36 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Bretherton eyes floods .
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1680
Re: Bretherton eyes floods .
Arrived about 20 mins earlier than Gary and saw a juvenile marsh harrier fly over the flood sending up the gulls and lapwings before flying off to the west. Other sightings were identical, other than a single teal on the flood and a hunting stoat on the river bank nr the bridge.
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 2:45 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Hic Bibi
- Replies: 0
- Views: 668
Hic Bibi
12.45-1.30pm - plenty of redwing and the odd fieldfare feeding on berries near to the entrance gate. Other than that v quiet this lunchtime
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:05 am
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane Flood
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4239
Re: Eyes Lane Flood
Did you get a shot of the harrier Len? (realise 'shot' is probably not the right word in Eyes Lane!)
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:01 am
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Hawfinch
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1696
Re: Hawfinch
Where are the hornbeams in Chorley?
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:49 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Eyes Lane Flood
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4239
Re: Eyes Lane Flood
12.30-1.30 - arrived as a female marsh harrier was among flocks of starling, lapwing and BH gulls over the flood. It soon passed through and all settled down on the flood. Also 120 greylag, 100 Canada, 13 whooper, 3 mute, several herring, 3 heron, gt egret flew from long grass to edge of the flood (...
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 8:55 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Bretherton eyes floods .
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3066
Re: Bretherton eyes floods .
Man. I present as evidence a Wellington boot still ensconced in 2 ft of Bretherton muck.