2-3 Kingfishers – Mizzy Dam

5 Common Sandpipers on east side of causeway
BH reports 1 Whimbrel west at 1600 hrs

2 Common Terns at the dam at 1545 hrs

5 Curlews – 3 south-east at 0935 hrs followed a few minutes later by 2 more on the same course
3 Common Sandpipers
1 Green Woodpecker – adult in birches at west end of pine-belt and in north-west corner of PR2

1 Shoveler [f] – Mizzy Dam
1 Red-breasted Goose – Section 1 Pit
1 Azure Damselfly

3 Common Sandpipers on causeway

1 Greater Scaup [m] with Tufted Ducks on PR3. Possibly the bird present 7-12 July last year
3 Common Sandpipers
1 Osprey yesterday 0900 hrs through KSP, PR and Ruskin Drive Sports Ground, St Helens [the best thing there since Chariots of Fire]

1 Emperor Dragonfly [m] – Ranch Pond
1 Broad-bodied Chaser [m] – Ranch Pond

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry…so I laughed. [Thanks to Bill Harrison for that one]

1 Hobby hunting back and forth over a small area of hillside forming the south side of the Woodlands Valley which contains the A57 Snake Road. Alport Bridge is at the confluence of the rivers Alport and Ashop. A track leads across a ford from here
1 Merlin [f] – Rowlee Pasture which is on the Dark Peak moorland plateau high above the north side of Woodlands Valley
1 Peregrine Falcon – Rowlee Pasture
2 Golden Plovers – Rowlee Pasture
1 Redstart [f] – Alport Dale
1 Wood Warbler – Woodlands Valley
1 Stonechat [m] – Woodlands Valley
1 Mountain Hare – The Tower, Alport Castles