Female Wheatear at the rear of Enterprise car hire off Liverpool Road 8:30am Sat 15.5.21.
Paul Houghton
Ferny Knoll Road
Wheatear 4 female. Also: Shelduck 3, Oystercatcher 3, Grey Partridge 2 pairs, Raven one, Corn Bunting 2 in song and a pair of Grey Wagtail in a farmyard.
Derek Evans
Winwick Fields/Fiddle pool
8:30am -12:30pm
Pool opposite Fiddle
Redshank
Little stint not 100% but very likely
Little Grebe
Shoveller x 2 males only. Presume females are possibly sitting.
Yellow/grey and pied wagtail on at different times.
Grey heron
Gadwall 2 male
Swift's over(at least 6)and swallows feeding low over the water.
Paddocks,fields trees and hedgerows (Old Alder Lane)
10+ Yellow Wags
2 female northern wheatear
3 Yellow Hammers
Sedge Warbler
Grasshopper warbler ( heard reeling but not seen)
10 Linnet
3 buzzard
2 Oystercatchers
Skylarks about also tree sparrow, chaffinch, greenfinch, goldfinch.
Fir trees opposite pool plenty of goldcrests.
Howard Arends
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Pool opposite Fiddle
Redshank
Little stint not 100% but very likely
Little Grebe
Shoveller x 2 males only. Presume females are possibly sitting.
Yellow/grey and pied wagtail on at different times.
Grey heron
Gadwall 2 male
Swift's over(at least 6)and swallows feeding low over the water.
Paddocks,fields trees and hedgerows (Old Alder Lane)
10+ Yellow Wags
2 female northern wheatear
3 Yellow Hammers
Sedge Warbler
Grasshopper warbler ( heard reeling but not seen)
10 Linnet
3 buzzard
2 Oystercatchers
Skylarks about also tree sparrow, chaffinch, greenfinch, goldfinch.
Fir trees opposite pool plenty of goldcrests.
Howard Arends
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Haydock Park
Blue-headed Wagtail flava male. One showing the characters of this 'species' today 0555-0620+ was also present on 5th April at 0750. There is a possibility that it's an inter-grade with Yellow flavissima a pair of which were also present today. Walk east along the Lodge Lane Pumping Station overflow track to the central 'crossroads'. The bird has been around the soil/waste heaps here and along the track northwards.
Derek Evans
Haydock Park
Redpoll 5 flew west at 0600; Wheatear pair; Yellow Wagtail 2 or 3.
Also: Meadow Pipit 2, Oystercatcher 3, Grey Partridge pair and an impressive 9 to 13 pairs of Stock Dove.
Derek Evans
20.00-20.30 Quick half an hour's observation on my way home from work at the fiddle proved to be a great idea.
20 Bar tailed godwits very actively feeding on the far side of the wetland.
2 Redshank
4 Yellow Wagtail/pied wagtail
4 Shovelers 2m/2fem
2 Dabchicks
I Male Wheatear
I possible male Whinchat , couldn't get a 100% positive ID, it was very flighty and the rain had started sheeting down. Lapwings and Swallows -good numbers and a buzzard going down for lapwing chicks..... unsuccessfully. This gem of a place just keeps getting better.
Howard Arends
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20 Bar tailed godwits very actively feeding on the far side of the wetland.
2 Redshank
4 Yellow Wagtail/pied wagtail
4 Shovelers 2m/2fem
2 Dabchicks
I Male Wheatear
I possible male Whinchat , couldn't get a 100% positive ID, it was very flighty and the rain had started sheeting down. Lapwings and Swallows -good numbers and a buzzard going down for lapwing chicks..... unsuccessfully. This gem of a place just keeps getting better.
Howard Arends
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Winnwick farmland
Couple of hours around the water opposite the fiddle and surrounding fields produced some great birds today.
10+ Yellow Wagtails
20+ Yellow Hammers
Redshank x 1
6 Buzzards high on the thermals
1 male Kes
Couple of Reed bunting
Plenty of Linnets
2 female Wheatear (In usual paddocks)
Few tree sparrow and the usual more common stuff.
Report off Matt Bannon a great guy I met for a chat also seen a Stone chat and yesterday a common sandpiper on the water opposite the fiddle.
Cheers
Howard Arends
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10+ Yellow Wagtails
20+ Yellow Hammers
Redshank x 1
6 Buzzards high on the thermals
1 male Kes
Couple of Reed bunting
Plenty of Linnets
2 female Wheatear (In usual paddocks)
Few tree sparrow and the usual more common stuff.
Report off Matt Bannon a great guy I met for a chat also seen a Stone chat and yesterday a common sandpiper on the water opposite the fiddle.
Cheers
Howard Arends
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Ferny Knoll Road
Snipe 2; Oystercatcher 3 (pair plus one); Grey Partridge one; House Martin one or 2; Corn Bunting one in song.
{House Martin at Grasmere Avenue nest sites since 30th April}.
Derek Evans
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