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Jeff Clarke


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Only 19 nests counted at the small wood north of Brookheys covert (Carrington Moss). Although I have not counted the nests here in the past this seems like a reduction on previous years.



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Mike Cooper


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26/3 17:45-18:10 birch Middleton

86 nests occupied or being built

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Colin Ramsden


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Wolstenholme (Nutters) - Norden. 24 nests - same as last year so holding its own.

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Harwood Fields - Birtle - 15 nests. Heap Bridge - 22 nests. Birch Village - 73 nests. Significantly down.

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Tom Morton


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Counts at the two rookeries in the north of the Wigan area revealed 57 active nests at Worthington and 81 at Haigh



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Jim Ormerod


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Hi Dave and Peter -

It must have been rook counting day today! 

I also went towards Horwich but not as far as Stocks Park Drive.  I had 35 near the Blundell Arms and 6 at Bottom o' th' Moor

At Hawkshaw I had 15 nests too.  At Bradshaw Road, opp Brooks Buildings there were 45. 

I also checked Holcombe Church, Ramsbottom - 22 nests, and St John's at Shuttleworth - 41 nests

I've still not found any in the Smithills Hall area.

 

Jim



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Jim Ormerod wrote:

I thought I'd try to locate rookeries in north Bolton with a view to counting them in next few weeks.  I found the one at Hawkshaw near the lodge (8 nests on 13th) and Brook Buildings, Bradshaw (c24 on 13th).  However, I could not locate anything in the Smithills area where there have been rookeries in the past.  I could see no signs at Shoulder of Mutton Clough near Smithills Dean Road and I pretty well covered the other woods down Raveden Brook, round Smithills Hall etc on the way down to Moss Bank Way with no success.

Does anyone know of any recent Rook sites in north Bolton in recent years?

Jim Ormerod

 In Horwich today there were 4 birds at 2 nests (one only at the early stages of construction) in trees at Chorley Old Road/Stocks Park Drive



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Peter Johnson


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Hawkshaw, 15 nests

Summerseat, 12 nests

Gorsey Clough Nursing Home, 10 nests



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vic chatterton


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Bottom of Hillend Lane, Mottram - Broadbottom boundary.

30 nests counted with at least 25 occupied. Increase from 19 last year so back to at least 2015 levels.

 



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PHIL GREENWOOD


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Very good count of 14 nests on Irlam Road, Flixton.

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4 Attended nests at Blossoms Lane, Woodford.

A guestimate of 20 nests by Stockport School on the A6, Great Moor.

Cheers John

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fredford


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The Birtle rookery, which started four years ago,has nineteen nests. The offshoot, quarter of mile to the east,started last year and has approximately fifteen nests.


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18 occupied nests in the rookery on Broadbottom Road ...... bang on the Mottram / Broadbottom border.

Roger.

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Half a dozen nests at the junction of Church Rd and Wellmeadow Rd, Uppermill, Saddleworth



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Jim Ormerod


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27nests at the rookery near Blundell Arms (about 100m towards Horwich on the left) and a further 6 about 100m further on where Bottom o' th' Moor goes off to the left.  Thanks Keith.

 

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Thanks Keith.  I think that will be the site listed as Bottom o'th' Moor or Blundell Arms.  I'll take a look over there.

Jim



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Use to be a fair size one on Chorley Old Road; on the left past the Bob Smithy Inn, about 250 yards up the hill.

-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 18th of March 2017 01:28:44 PM

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Jim Ormerod


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I thought I'd try to locate rookeries in north Bolton with a view to counting them in next few weeks.  I found the one at Hawkshaw near the lodge (8 nests on 13th) and Brook Buildings, Bradshaw (c24 on 13th).  However, I could not locate anything in the Smithills area where there have been rookeries in the past.  I could see no signs at Shoulder of Mutton Clough near Smithills Dean Road and I pretty well covered the other woods down Raveden Brook, round Smithills Hall etc on the way down to Moss Bank Way with no success.

Does anyone know of any recent Rook sites in north Bolton in recent years?

Jim Ormerod



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The Irlam Road, Flixton rookery has 6 nests and there are now 4 in the Woodsend Park rookery.

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Wolstenholme Norden (Nutters)

c 24 nests



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Mike Cooper


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Birch heywood Middleton border 17/4

117 nests counted this afternoon

-- Edited by Mike Cooper on Sunday 17th of April 2016 05:01:41 PM

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Seven (and a half) nests in tall trees off Wellmeadow Rd, Uppermill, Saddleworth.



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St Johns Shuttleworth.

Fourty one nests constructed or under construction, between 28 and 32 appear to be in use, with several sitting birds.

Fifty three birds seen in and around the area.

 

Regards Brian.



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Irlam Road, Flixton has 6 nests and there appear to be 3 nests in a tree on the south side of Woodsend Park.

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A 5th nest under construction on Blossoms Lane opposite Church Lane Flood, Woodford.

Cheers, John

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Irlam Road, Flixton, now has 6 nests...and counting!

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24 nests in the Bradshaw Road copse above Jumbles CP, next to the track to Toye Farm.


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Irlam Road rookery is now 5 nest strong.

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Irlam Road, Flixton rookery, outside Wellacre College is now 4 nests strong.

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Birch rookery heywood Middleton border sat 5/3

About 40 nests being built or repaired

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17.30
Birds back at the small rookery outside Wellacre School, Flixton with a count of 8 birds at 3 nests.

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Wolstenholme - Norden - 18 nests today.

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19 nests on the Mottram/ Broadbottom parish border at the bottom of Hillend Lane. 26 there in 2013.

It appears that many rookeries throughout GM are declining in numbers. A far cry from the 1960s when I knew of at least 7 rookeries in the Hyde/Longdendale area alone, many of them very large ones.

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61 nests at worthington lakes rookery.


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Colin Ramsden


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Birtle - Harwood Fields
24 nests as of today

Cutgate (Norden)
4 nests on Meadow View adjacent Tesco Express. A new site to my knowledge

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Now 5 nests opposite Church Lane Flood at Blossoms Lane, Woodford.

Cheers John



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7 nests outside Wellacre School in Flixton. 2 birds seen collecting sticks from the ground around the nesting trees.

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Thursday 2nd April 2015, 3.30pm

Mottram Moor, Hollingworth

At least 20 nests in the main rookery, with 17 birds present

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4 nests in Beech trees at the front of Edmund Arrowsmith High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield, the first time I've noticed any nests there, though birds regularly feed on the field. Less than half a mile from the Holiday Inn rookery just over the St Helens border. Interestingly, they are next to a cul-de-sac called Rookery Avenue, probably early to mid-20th century. Don't know when the Rookery referred to was last there?

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Birch 29/3

95 nests may be more if some of the larger structures are more than 1

About 60 jackdaws in the same trees? Surely will be driven off soon by rooks

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Checked out Tyldesley cemetery Rookery today.
~ 12-13 occupied nest, a 50% decline from my 2010 count.
Other birds of note included a very active pair of G.S.Woodpeckers & Nuthatches
and a pair of nesting Mistle Thrushes.
Cheers
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Colin Ramsden


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Birch village - c 80-85 nests this afternoon

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Wolstenholme, Norden - c 20 nests this morning

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Birtle rookery now has fourteen nests,nineteen last year. There are a further twenty nests approx quarter mile away. Does anyone know if this could be an extension to existing or a new rookery?

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Birtle rookery now has fourteen nests,nineteen last year. There are a further twenty nests approx quarter mile away where there have been none previously. Does anyone know if this is an extension to the existing or a new rookery?s

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We now have a total of 11 nests in Flixton.

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Just out of interest but we appear to have increased our Flixton rookery size this year.
There are 4 nests in a tree opposite the Railway Tavern on Irlam Road and 4 nests in a tree on the southern edge of Woodsend Park, which is a few hundred metres from the other tree, as the Rook flies.

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New rookery containing 4 nests in woodland just above Lowercroft reservoir.

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Birtle rookery started two years ago with 14 nests,last year 21 nests,this year 19 nests.I suppose rookeries wax and wane over the years.

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Delph - White Lion rookery

10 occupied nests 28th April

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