M+F Brambling in again ( the first male bird arrived on 2nd of Dec) .

Parked on Carr Lane and headed towards the Moss , found 2 goldcrest , few tits , 2 tree sparrow , 2 reed bunting , several redwing , robin , wren on Carr Lane , on the moss it was a wild windy day with most birds keeping their heads down there is still hundreds of pigeons and corvids about , 1 buzza...

fem brambling , 1 grey wag , 1 pied wag plus the usual's this afternoon.

highlight was 2 woodcock , 1 snipe , 1 kestrel , several redwing and a song thrush , plenty of broken branches and a large willow had gone down .

Large group of crows in the middle of a field at 5.00pm this evening , their usual roost was only a few hundred yards away ( spring wood Eccleston) , where the birds going to roost on the floor out of the snow storm ? or was it a pre roost gathering before the birds headed for the tree's ( the crows...

Looks like a mistle thrush.

Braved the conditions this morning and had a drive around ( dangerous at times) Heapey lodges , 40 mallard , 2 teal , Anglezarke , several mallard , male pochard , pair of wigeon :D , treecreeper , nuthatch , lower rivington , no sign of the grebe , 10 teal , 10 goosander , 30 canada geese flew over...

Just had 2 hours searching for the pallas,s warbler up and down carr lane and around the churchyard but no luck , there was plenty of birds around the area , birds spotted :- 2 nuthatch , 2 treecreeper , blue , great , coal and lt tits ,1goldcrest ( also spotted goldcrest size/colour bird flying acr...

No new ticks for the chorley year list John?

Just had a flying visit to see if there was any waxwings on lower burgh way ( plenty of berries) no sign of any waxwings but there was several blackbirds and one fieldfare , some of the trees have been nearly stripped of their berries . YV PARK, usual suspects on the big lodge but no sign of the gre...

Just had a pied wagtail feeding on bread crumbs ( new for the year) .

Went in hope of finding something unusual on the river birds spotted :- River douglas , 1 little grebe , 6 goosander (3m 3f) , 20 mallard , 25 teal , 5 snipe . Croston Finney , hundreds of pinkfoot on the large grass field again , large numbers of finches and buntings around the set aside field . Ma...

Blackbirds were feeding early in the garden this morning( 7.30am) at least 4 birds were present.

Huge numbers of birds mainly around the croston finney area , 1000+ pinkfooted geese on the large grass field next to the douglas ( no sign of the golden plover) 25 teal and few mallard on the river , at least 150 corn buntings on wires ( record count for me) , 100 skylark on the stubble , large num...

Just had a walk down the brook and the surrounding fields , first birds i came across were some siskins feeding on the alder trees several of the birds were dropping down having a drink , several small flocks of herring gulls passed over , flushed a kestrel out of a ditch ( which seemed unusual ) i ...