WATERGROVE RESERVOIR
Sitting at the base of the moors, high above Rochdale, Watergrove' s current site total lists stands at 155.
Photo by Roger Kennedy
| SPECIES TOTAL | NAME | FURTHER DETAILS |
| 141 | Steve Atkins | Steve has been seriously covering Watergrove for many years now and has amassed a pretty impressive list for such a 'high altitude' site (in a county respective ☺). He lists his most painful miss as the March 2006 Red Kite seen there, as despite visiting three times that day, none coincided with the brief fly-over of the kite, he has also missed Black-tailed Godwit (December 2006) whilst walking round to the club house there, where another Watergrove regular saw one fly past! Steve admits there are quite afew wader species for him to still 'pick up' but has now breached that 140 species target and has 150 firmly in his sights! His defining moment though and one for which he will remain eternally famous for, is the finding of the Broad-billed Sandpiper there in May 2005, at the time, the first county record but subsequently 'relegated' to the second! |
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