Local patch

Lostock Park 

I didn't feel like taking any risks with the buses today, it being a Sunday and it being the Sunday our local services are disrupted by the Manchester Marathon, so I had a wander round the local patch to see how we're doing for warblers. It turned out it was too early for whitethroats — I'm not sure how many territories there are going to be this year anyway after somebody "tidied up" the brambles by the path last Winter. On the plus side it's all beginning to sound interestingly busy out there.

• Blackbird 7, 4 singing males
• Blackcap 1 singing
• Blue tits 7, 1 singing
• Carrion crow 4, 1 singing
• Chaffinch 3, 2 singing
• Chiffchaff 3, 2 singing 
• Dunnock 2, 1 singing
• Feral pigeon 5 overhead 
• Goldfinch 7, 1 singing
• Great tit 10, 4 singing
• Greenfinch 1
• House sparrow 2
• Lesser black-back 9 overhead
• Magpie 24
• Mistle thrush 1 singing
• Robin 7, 5 singing
• Song thrush 1 singing 
• Starling 1 singing 
• Woodpigeon 6
• Wren 4 singing

Barton Clough