Elton reservoir birds

Black-eared Wheatear, Lesser Grey Shrike and Kentish Plover remain amongst some of the best birds ever recorded here to date. Highlights for me this a. Common Sandpiper, Swallow, Wheatear, Snipe, Little Grebe and Kingfisher with at least Meadow Pipit over also.

It attracts most of the common water birds plus good numbers of rarities and less common stuff. ELTON RESERVOIR Members Login. Reservoir which once again had me back at the reservoir. A large reservoir to the southwest of Bury.

Home of Bury Angling Association and Elton Sailing Club. The modern day Alpha hospital located east of the reservoir was originally built in the nineteenth century as a isolation hospital.

The area is rich in wildlife. In particular the area is county important for birds. A couple of weeks ago, I popped along to Elton reservoir in Bury.

The next highlight was on the 25th in the form of Greenshanks present early morning which was the start a good run of records for this species at Elton. It was a lovely warm day, which made a change from the previous cold and damp weeks. I was even able to leave the jacket in the car and just walk around with my t-shirt. Lapwing and Snipe.

Forecasts are available worldwide. Large number of Hirundines again, perhaps 5or more, with House Martin predominant. Submitted by George Warburton. Are you submitting a complete checklist of the birds you were able to identify?

The small black-headed gull colony by the sailing club had been productive, with at least four well-grown youngsters. A few lesser black-backed gulls, a couple of herring gulls and a common gull were loafing round out on the water and taking turns at sitting on the buoys.

Start A New Topic Reply. Click here to view the full size site map with sighting locations. Also known as Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) and Redpoll (Acanthis flammea).

A quick look on our L. Red hot up the reservoir today and this kept the birds quiet for most of the day, tree pipits were singing at winnows hill and a couple of cuckoo were heard. It is the fourth largest reservoir in England with an area of 4. The reservoir is one of the most important for wildfowl in Britain.

Lots of birds on the feeders, Little Egrets below pumphouse, female Scaup with lots of Tufted Ducks, Pochard and many gulls including a few Common. Met Steve H filling up the feeders. It is worth a trip to Elton just to watch the dozens of birds visiting the feeding station. A Peregrine had been watched regularly on the same pylon by local birdwatchers and was last recorded there, alive, on 30th April.

Various places around the reservoir have been set aside as nature reserves, so it is worth taking some binoculars. There is a wonderful 7km (mile) walk around the reservoir which is all on good surfaces. Another visit this morning continue to show up migrant. Hundreds of Swallows, House and Sand Martins are gathering before they go south.

Willow Warblers, Chifchaff and a Common Whitethroat were also moving through south. Also seen was a Wheatear shown here on the dam wall. These are fairly common.

In the north of the Borough moor land habitat exists around the Peel Tower. Bury MBC provides, maintain, promotes, and safeguards sites of biological importance, parks and Tfour local nature reserves in Philips Park, Chesham, Hollins Vale and Redisher Woo near Holcombe.

Oystercatcher, redshank and lapwing sometimes roost on the dam. Birds and wildlife.