• Cormorant - 1 flew down the Irwell Valley
• Pink-footed goose - heard calling in flight at 12:40. No idea of numbers or direction, but sounded to be a small skein
• buzzard - 3
• sparrowhawk - 1 male
• kestrel - 1 with metal ring on right leg, no doubt ringed by Craig
• skylark - 1
• great spotted woodpecker - 1
• kingfisher - 1
• meadow pipit - 64 including 1 flock of 42 birds
• grey wagtail - 1
• woodpigeon - 14
• swallow - 5
• wren - 5
• dunnock - 8
• robin - 14
• blackbird - 7
• jay - 1
• magpie - 11
• carrion crow - 10
• jackdaw - c50
• coal tit - min 3
• nuthatch - 1
• great tit - 2 seen many others calling
• blue tit - 3 seen many others calling
• long tailed tit - 2 seen many others calling
• chaffinch - 3
• goldfinch - 3
• greenfinch - 1 calling
• bullfinch - 1 calling

Staghills Woods

• 1 treecreeper
• 2 nuthatch
• 1 great spotted woodpecker

cheers Kevin