A lovely walk around the moss today in the sunshine. Very still and the fields were steaming as the frost melted. Croston Finney Robin, Blackbird, House Sparrow, 3 Yellohammers, Reed Bunting, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Buzzard, Kestrel, large flock of Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Moorhen, Magpie Croston Mos...

There were two at the edge of the woods on Saturday PM.

A single fallow deer this moring in the woods between Garth and Wymott Prisons. I have been told of a herd up to 2 dozen in the area.

I had a GS Woodpecker for the first time in my garden on Sunday afternoon.

There is a female Scaup at Mere Sands Wood - see the (poor!) photos in my birds gallery.

Report at 14:23 flew out of Rufford Park Wood over the A59 towards Croston Moss

The common sand first flew over me about 1 km from Eccleston Bridge heading west whilst I was chatting to an angler. I then found it again a few hundred metres before the bridge and it then flew off south.

The Twite were in a field along Spent Brook about 1km W of Ingrave Farm.

Several small parties of LT Tits, C Crows & Jackdaw, Woodpigeon, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Wren, Blue, Great and Coal Tits, Blackbirds, Robin. Small numbers of Fieldfare. Song Thrush.

Highlights were single Common Sandpiper and single Snipe flew over. 3 Twite.

And a lone Grey Partridge!

Very quiet afternoon. Small numbers of Redwing, Fieldfare and Lapwings. Wren and Goldcrest along with various Tits. Watched a Barn Owl for 15 mins between Sumners Lane and Spa Well Lane. It came with 30yds of me on Mosds Lane then flew off towards Alma Wood. As it approached the wood, 2 Buzzards cam...

Roe Deer came from Lords Wood, straight across the Moss and headed to the railway line. 2 Buzzard, Kestrel, Redwing, Fieldfare, Red-legged Partridge, Pheasant Chaffinch, Goldfinch, House Sparrow, Blackbird, Skylark Large flocks (several hundred each) of Carrion Crow, Jackdaw and Starlings. Also 100+...

Grey Wagtail, Heron, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Jay

A Peacock butterfly landed at my feet while walking along a ditch in the sun.

Lots of Long-tailed Tits and Goldfinches. Tree Sparrow, Goldcrest, Pied Wagtail, Reed Bunting, Wren, 2 Grey Partidge. Flock of 1000 Starlings.
Usual common birds.

Very quiet day for geese. Only a skein of 130 PF over west. 5 Whoopers over west late pm.

This morning -
Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 3 Collared Dove
Pair of Coal Tits, Pair of Dunnock

River Lostock and Wymott Brook Buzzard, 2 kestrels, 2 Crows mobbing a Sparrowhawk, Jackdaw, Blackbird, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Wren, Robin, Moorhen, Coot, several flocks of Fieldfares, Redwings, Yellowhammer, Herring Gulls, Black-headded Gulls. A lot of skeins of Pink-footed goose over head to all poi...