Rindle Road, Rindle Wood and Astley Moss SSSI

Tonight, between 4:30 and 6pm on a very pleasant walk with my other half round Rindle Road, Rindle Wood and the trail around the edge of the SSSI, produced:

• Male and Female Pheasant on Rindle Road near Nook Lane
• 2 Tree Sparrows in f67
• 2 Yellowhammers in f67
• 1 Chaffinch in hawthorne along road
• Buzzard over the trees near the railway line
• Several Lapwing displaying in f67/68
• Many Carrion Crows and Wood Pigeons in f69
• 2 Kestrels (1 over Astley Moss and the other over f67)
• 2 Mallards in pools
• 3 Blue Tits in Wood
• 1 Great Tit in Wood 
• 1 Wren in Wood
• 4 Wheatear in the ploughed field between the SSSI pools and Rindle Hedge (year tick)
• 1 Yellowhammer and a Pied Wagtail in same ploughed field
• 2 Mistle Thrushes and 2 Grey Partridges in f69
• Several Crows, Magpies and Blackbirds around
• Several other unidentified LBJ's (moved too fast for us)

On leaving the 'Moth Man' (whose name I'm afraid I don't know even though I've met him many times) said there had been a Corn Bunting on the wires near Rindle Cottages earlier in the week.