WRYNECK

 

Wryneck has not always been the county rarity it is today and infact has even bred in Greater Manchester, when a nest with 6 eggs was found overhanging a brook in Heaton Park on the 1st June 1912!
 

 

1979   Longdendale 26th Apr Appeared to be searching for food around a dry stone wall
1981   Crooke, Wigan 10th Oct  
1983   Haigh 15th Oct  
1983   Oakden Bank Wood, Rochdale 5th Oct  
1984   Naden Resr 26-27th Aug  
1985   Haigh 14th Sep  
1988   Chorlton Ees 8th Sep  
1988   Upper Naden Valley 27-28th Oct  
1993   Haigh Lower Plantations 23rd Sep  
1994   Shell Carrington NR 5th Oct  
1995   Haigh Plantations 2nd Oct 2 birds! One seen moving between three trees was heard to call and another unseen bird heard to answer from a distance
1995   Watergrove Reservoir 16th Sep  
1998   Royton 5-6th Sep In a garden
2003   Audenshaw Reservoir 11th Sep Seen just off the Denton roundabout at the south end of Audenshaw
2005   Horwich 6-9th Sep At the Middlebrook Industrial Estate
2006   Shell Carrington NR 12-17th Oct