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Just like buses .....

Promised Land Farm
The highlight for me was finding my second Spotted Flycatcher in a week, when I hadnt previously seen one in St Helens!
2 Little Owl
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Buzzard
Chiffchaff

Red Barn Lane
Whitethroat
Yellow Wagtail
12 Greenfinch
5 Yellowhammer
8 partridge (bad light at distance so no species given)
Lots of swallows including recently fledged young

Larch Close, Billinge
Song Thrush
5 Common Buzzard over (inc 1 very pale morph bird)

I was particularly pleased with the song thrush in my garden as these bird are red-listed having declined alarmingly and (almost) unexplainably in the last 30 years.
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  1. Andy Coates2 September 2013 at 23:47

    good little area isnt it,hope you see the green woodpeckers they are there but very illisive cheers andy

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