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peter hill
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peter hill
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Went for a walk with my wife this morning ,from the main car park at errwood to the quarry car park and back on route we saw a cuckoo and heard another common sandpiper ,3 tree pipets 2 redstarts lots of siskins and willow warblers ,nuthatch ,tree creeper ,kestral ,buzzard ,2 pied flys ,curlew on the way into valley A good couple of hours ,later i went in the lower valley on my own and saw 2 female and 1 male pied flycatchers,and what looked like a young kingfisher and a dipper feeding its growing chick in the river ,fine all day bonus o
Spent a quiet day in the upper valley yesterday. A pair of Redstart along the riverside walk and a tree pipit singing by Erwood hall were the highlights and a pair of Peregrines flew over. Walked from Danebower to the Cat & Fiddle also and only saw a pair of Ravens and plenty of Grouse. Heard a couple of Golden Plovers but not much about. The wind was bitter at times.
jonlowes
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Apologies for the late posting, it is the first chance I’ve had – there was a Red Kite in the valley yesterday (Sunday) morning. It flew south low over the moors from Wild Moor towards Berry Clough. Only saw if briefly but I didn’t notice any wing tags. Also seen between Erwood Resr & Derbyshire Bridge – 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Cuckoo, 1 juvenile Tawny Owl, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Flycatchers, 8+ Redstarts, 2 Spotted Flycatchers, pair of Stonechat food carrying & 6 Tree Pipits.
Cheshire Birder
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steve wright
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2 Hobbies yesterday Derbyshire Bridge side,Linnet,Cuckoo(h)Redstart Stonechats also seen.
peter hill
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A short walk from the main car park to the quarry car park this morning before it got to hot , turned up 2 year ticks for me 1 a spotted flycatcher which we saw 2 and a hobby harrresing a buzzard also a few tree pipets a 2 redstarts, 2 sandpipers,2 ravens, 2 kestrals, 2 nuthatches a tree creeper and a greater spotted woodpecker There are plenty of birds about at the moment just listen for there calls Ps forgot to mention heard 2 cuckoos 1 on either side of the resevoir
peter hill
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A long hot walk in the valley today produced in the lower valley 1blackcap ,2greywagtails and a kingfisher and a couple of chiffchaffs ,met up with some birders from a manchester bird club and walked with them a while we saw 1 pied flycatcher, 1 nuthatch,1 spotted flycatcher ,heard 3 different cuckoos ,quite a few curlews another blackcap and a pair of stonechats
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peter hill
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A short walk in valley this morning reveled 2 male pied flys 2 tree pipets 3 willow warblers 2 common sandpipers a goldcreast , mybe what you might expect what i didnt expect was this bird flying over my house in whaley bridge a record shot i know but from my back garden
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Cheshire Birder
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peter hill
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It was heading towards the goyt valley possably buxton this was at about 6oclock also heard of a possable sighting near errwood on saturday
peter hill
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Not a lot of birds about yesterday but in the lower valley below fernilee res there were lots of meadow brown butterflies
peter hill
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After traveling to sheffield the last 2 sundays to try and see waxwings and beening sucssefull yesterday ,i managed to see 6 not 300yrds from home on reddish road whaley bridge thiss morning :-O
peter hill
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Not been out locally much lately ,but with the cold wheather though it might be time to catch up with some goosander on todbrook res had seen a few from macclesfield road ,looked about 6 or 7 males last week Today there was only 1 male and 2 females so turned my attention to the local park <whaley bridge> some thurshes were feeding on the ground that was not frozen ,spent an enjoyable 30minutes photographing redwings ,they just would not come close enough The park proved good for siskins as well feeding on the alders by the river goyt also saw another goosander on the goyt
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Goyter
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Always believed there should be Lesser Spots in the Goyt Valley but never found one until this morning. Actually seen from the house at the bottom of our drive. Unfortunately by the time I had got the camera and slid down the drive it had gone. Will keep looking.
Always believed there should be Lesser Spots in the Goyt Valley but never found one until this morning. Actually seen from the house at the bottom of our drive. Unfortunately by the time I had got the camera and slid down the drive it had gone. Will keep looking.
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