Birding Group Visit to Wigan Flashes 29th March 2011
We haven’t been able to go to many of the “WEA Birding Group” mornings out recently due to a combination of visiting relatives, being on holiday and having to go to London – all pleasant events but preventing us from going on the birding mornings. So it was nice to be able to attend again and it was a fine morning for it.
We started off at the parking spaces just outside Hawkley Hall School and walked around some of the smaller flashes until we got to the place where you have the middle of Scotman’s Flash on your left and Pearson’s Flash on your right and then returned to the parking spot. We were there from around 10am – 2pm and saw the following
Bird List
| Species | Count |
|---|---|
| Blackbird | 2 |
| Black-headed Gull | 30 |
| Blue Tit | 6 |
| Bullfinch | 1 |
| Canada Goose | 12 |
| Chaffinch | 1 |
| Chiffchaff | 2 |
| Coal Tit | 1 |
| Coot | 20 |
| Cormorant | 1 |
| Dunnock | 1 |
| Gadwall | 2 |
| Goldeneye | 3 |
| Great Crested Grebe | 3 |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | 2 |
| Great Tit | 15 |
| Greylag Goose | 2 |
| House Martin | 3 |
| Jay | 1 |
| Magpie | 4 |
| Mallard | 20 |
| Mistle Thrush | 2 |
| Mute Swan | 20 |
| Reed Bunting | 2 |
| Robin | 6 |
| Song Thrush | 1 |
| Tufted Duck | 20 |
Getting There
We drove there on the M62 to the M6 and came off at exit 25 for Wigan. At the end of the motorway we turned left onto the A49 and after about a mile we turned right at the roundabout onto the B5238 Poolstock Lane. After about half a mile we turned right onto Carr Lane and went all the way down to Hawkley High School where we turned left just before the school and parked in an area just by a site entrance.