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Scarce or vulnerable species include but are not restricted to any species of wader, ducks other than mallard, all owls, any birds of prey, grey or yellow wagtails, grey heron, all grebes, Cetti’s warbler, water rail, willow tit, corn bunting etc. If in doubt, please ask.

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Carr Mill Dam

1 male Blackcap seen in song along the railway embankment at 0735.
Derek Evans

Moss Lane, Windle

2 Oystercatcher; 70 Fieldfare on frosted rugby pitch; 1 Chiffchaff in song; Jackdaw and Carrion Crow nest-building; 1 Raven over.
Derek E

My garden Eccleston

5 siskin on my feeders this morning and a hedgehog last night. I last saw the brambling yesterday morning.

Damian P
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Dairy Farm Road, Rainford

2 Shelduck at 0700; 1 Oystercatcher; 48 Lapwing; 2 Fieldfare; 1 Chiffchaff.
Derek Evans

Moss Lane, Windle

1 Peregrine hunting at 1440; 2 Oystercatcher; 5 Redwing; 30 Yellowhammer in loose flock.
Derek Evans

Brambling - my garden, Eccleston

This gorgeous male brambling visited the garden this afternoon. I was just on the way out to collect my car from a service so only had a few minutes to watch it, and it was gone by the time I'd got back.

I've had bramblings in the garden a few years ago when a male and female visited intermittently for  a week or so, but this was a complete surprise today.







Damian P

Star

Lovely photo of the Roe deer in the Star Thursday  16th March 17, its just a pity the location was given away.

Carr Mill Dam

1 Little Grebe, 1 female Goosander circled at 0700, 1 Woodcock flushed from east side woodland at 0725, 1 Curlew flew south at 0750, 60 Fieldfare, 3 Chiffchaff in song.
Derek Evans

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Carr Mill Dam

4 sub-adult Mute Swan,1 Greylag Goose, 1 Meadow Pipit, 2 Chiffchaff in song, Siskin pair.
Derek Evans

Billinge Hill

Two Stonechats (fem's) at the midden pile near the hill this afternoon.

Carr Mill Dam

2 Greylag Goose on the water; 2 Oystercatcher flew west at 0720; 15 Redwing; 2 Siskin in the alders at the Goyt inlet.
Derek Evans

Sandy Lane and Berrington's Lane, Rainford

Along Sandy Lane: 2 male Stonechat at 0730.
Along Berrington's Lane: 1 male Stonechat at 0810; also 2 Oystercatcher and 2 Rook.
Derek Evans