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Grane 11/06/2017
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  • Canada goose - 232 adult or near full grown juvs & 32 goslings
  • mallard - c12
  • pheasant - 1 at Holden Wood
  • cormorant - 3
  • grey heron - juvenile at Holden Wood & 1 at Ogden
  • great crested grebe - 1 pr nest building at the top end of Holden Wood in the open water.  I wouldn't give them much chance of successfully raising a brood.  Another pair on Ogden and a single on Calf Hey
  • buzzard - 1
  • kestrel - 5 sightings involving at least 3 birds
  • moorhen - 2 adults with 5 juveniles at Holden Wood.  One of the adults aggressively chased off a carrion crow
  • oystercatcher - between 4 and 7 birds seen
  • lapwing - c12
  • curlew -1
  • common sandpiper - 5
  • black-headed gull - c45 1 very fresh juvenile seen at Grane Park off Grane Road
  • lesser-black backed gull - c15 over
  • stock dove - 4 in Jamestones Quarry & 2 across the road from The Duke Of Wellington
  • woodpigeon - c20
  • swift - min 12
  • green woodpecker - 1 yaffling at Calf Hey & a male at Heap Clough
  • great spotted woodpecker - 1 heard at Calf Hey
  • magpie - c8
  • jackdaw - c40
  • carrion crow - c12
  • goldcrest - c6
  • blue tit - only 1 at Heap Clough!
  • great tit - c6 including 2 juvs being fed by parent at Heap Clough
  • coal tit - just 2 calling birds
  • skylark - heard singing from the moors
  • sand martin - c12
  • swallow - c12
  • house martin - 1
  • chiffchaff - 1 at Calf Hey
  • willow warbler - 11
  • blackcap - 3 at Calf Hey & 1 at Clough Head
  • nuthatch - 1 at Calf Hey probably feeding young hidden from view
  • wren - c20
  • starling - 1 at Holden Wood
  • blackbird - 6
  • song thrush - 1
  • mistle thrush - family of 5 in Deep Clough
  • robin - 10
  • stonechat - 4 at Holden Wood & 1pr at Ogden
  • wheatear - 1 juvenile & a male carrying food at different sites at Jamestones Quarry
  • house sparrow - usual flock on the track to Holden Wood
  • grey wagtail - 1pr at Calf Hey carrying nest material & 1 pr at Jamestones
  • pied wagtail - adult with 3 juvs at Holden Wood, adult with 1 juv at Ogden & 1 at Jamestones Quarry
  • meadow pipit - c30
  • chaffinch - c20
  • greenfinch - 1 at Holden Wood
  • goldfinch - c12
  • siskin - 1 male, 1 female & a juvenile on feeders at Clough Head
  • linnet - 5 at Deep Clough
  • bullfinch - 1 male on feeders at Clough Head
  • reed bunting - 14

cheers Kevin



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