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All my sightings will now be in this thread rather than separate UNLESS a major rarity occurs (on a local level) which will get it's own thread but do not hold your breath. 

 

January  2nd

minimum of 30 Great Black-Backed Gulls flying over Haslingden about 5pm - quite dark.

 

January 3rd

 

5 Snipe at Holden Wood

 

January 5th

 

Morning at Holden Wood and Quarries:-

1 Buzzard at Holden Wood

3 Kestrels - 1 at Holden Wood, 2 at Quarries

1 Goosander over Quarries, may have landed

60 Fieldfare above Heap Clough

20 Redwing at Holden Wood

2 Greenfinch at Holden Wood

5 Siskin at Holden Wood

1 female Bullfinch at Holden Wood

20 approx. Chaffinch approx

40 approx. Goldfinch  - 20 at Quarries, 20 Heap Clough

9 Stock Dove - some pairs looked like displaying

30 lapwings

133 Pink Footed Geese about 12 noon - same birds as Brian  heading West

a few Meadow Pipits at  Heap Clough

minimum of 15 Robins

min 10 House Sparrow opposite Holden Arms

min 20 jackdaw

min 30 Starling at Heap Clough

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker at Jamestone

1 Song Thrush at Holden Wood

2 Mistle Thrush -1 at Holden Wood, 1 at Jamestone

3 Stonechat - a pair and a lone male at Holden Wood

quite a few of the 4 commoner tit species around too

 

 

 



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19 January - Grane

 

Holden Wood:-

 

6 Teal

2 Coot -  2nd must lave landed whilst I was on tops

1 Bullfinch

1 Greenfinch "wheezing"

1 Reed Bunting

2 Snipe

2 Moorhen

1 Redwing over

1 Great Crested Grebe

 

Musbury Heights  - 2 Wren only

 

Saturday 21 January

 

33 Mallard at Holden Wood

5 Great Black Baked Gulls Over

 

 

Monday 23 January  at Stonefold

 

12 Common Gulls

3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

1 Buzzard

2 Kestrel

4 Stock Dove

 

Friday 26 January Grane Reservoir and Qarries

 

Holden Wood:-

1 Coot

4 teal

1 Great Crested Grebe

1 Mistle Thrush

Stonechat pair

3 Herring Gulls

1 Grey Heron

1 Raven over

2 Pied Wagtails

 

Ogden:-

 

3 Bullfinch on slopes feeding on heather seeds - 1 male and 2 females

5 Goldeneye on res

2 Great Black Backed Gull immatures

1 Grey Heron

4 Mallard

 

Calf Hey:-

2 Goldeneye

1 Dipper

2 Mistle Thrush - 1 in full song

Tits Galore with Nuthatch and Treecreeper

1 Buzzard

 

Quarries:-

1 Green Woodpecker

1 Mistle Thrush

1 Great Black Backed Gull feeding on a sheep carcass

Tits and Chaffinches aplenty

8 Meadow Pipits

2 Kestrel

 



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Holden Wood, Quarries and Haslingden Moor today

 

Holden Wood:-

 

2 Teal

2 Coot

1 Grey Heron

about 8 mallard

n Great Crested Grebe on today

1 immature Great Black Backed Gull

1 Herring Gull

approx. 50 Herring Gulls

5 Mistle Thrush - 3 in pasture, 2 singing at each end of res

3 Blackbird

Tit flock - Long Tailed, Blue and Great

2 Wren

Stonechat pair

2 Pheasants - male near dam wall, female at top end visiting my new feeders - fat ball and Nyjer seed put on fence posts

30 Jackdaw

7 Lapwing

 

Heap Clough and Quarries

 

3 Mistle Thrush singing - 1 coming from Troy Wood, 1 from Calf Hey car park,  another trilling near Jamestone Quarries

4 Great Black Backed Gull  on Jamestones - 1 adult and 3 immature visiting the sheep carcass.

4 Stock Dove

approx. 15 Goldfinch

6-7 Chaffinch

 

Tit flock - lots of Great, Blue and Coal Tits

3 Wrens

 

Nothing on Haslingden Moor



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Bit of an upturn in the number of Lesser Black Backed Gulls seen going over Haslingden - spring is on it's way!!!

 

Holden Wood:-

 

1 Skylark - returning bird

1 Dipper

8 Teal - do not stop still enough to give to look for that mythical vertical white line

2 Coot

2 Moorhen

5 Great Black Backed Gulls

approx. 10 Herring Gulls

min 100 Black-headed Gulls  - could bring some Med Gulls with them as there has been an increase in sightings inland.

4 Mistle Thrush

12 Lapwing - some displaying!!!

1 Snipe

approx. 20 Redwings

approx. 15 Blackbirds

2 Wrens

Stonechat Pair

5 Robins

3 Bullfinch

1 Buzzard over

1 Raven over

4 Chaffinch

min 10 House Sparrow opposite Holden Arms

approx. 20 Jackdaw

min 10 Carrion Crows

min 10 Magpies

min 20 Woodpigeons - some small flocks

2 Grey heron

1 Kestrel

min 10 Mallard

 

Quarries:-

could hear and see pair of Oystercatcher - 1 spotted over Holden Wood later

min 10 Fieldfare

2 Mistle Thrush

min 4 pair of Stock Dove

1 Great Black Backed Gull

min 2 Kestrel pair - displaying

1 Buzzard

1 raven

min 10 Goldfinch

small numbers of Chaffinch and 4 tit species

1 Meadow Pipit

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Day started off with a Herring Gull adult visiting my house for scraps of food.  Nice addition to the garden list.

 

Holden Wood:-

 

Bird of the day - 1 Mediterranean Gull - I assume it will be around Holden Wood in the morning and late afternoon - that is whenI saw them

1 Reed Bunting

2 Common Gulls

1 Great Black backed Gull

2 Herring Gulls

1 Lesser Black backed Gull over

1 Buzzard

min 60 Lapwings

5 Oystercatcher

8 Teal

not very many Mallard

1 Coot

1 Great Crested Grebe - almost in summer plumage

4 Great Tits in scrub at dam wall.

1 Dunnock

2 Song Thrush is song

Bullfinch maybe 2-3

Andy Young saw Greenfinch

2 Long Tailed Tits at top end

1 Grey Wagtail

1 Dipper

 

Ogden:-

1 Goldeneye maybe 2?

 

Calf Hey:-

Black-headed Gulls

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker around feeders

1 Nuthatch

1 Song Thrush in singing

2 Stonechat

1 Dipper with a ring on - probably same bird I had some months back.

 

Quarries:-

2 male Kestrels around Jamestone's

Kestrel pair around Troy

4-5 Goldeneye on quarries

1 Green Woodpecker

1 Skylark

 

 



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I know it is cold when a Blackbird starts visiting my garden.

 

Holden Wood Wednesday 28 Feb - 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Robin, 1 Fieldfare, 10-20 Lapwing

 

The Grane Reservoirs today  2/3/18

 

Holden Wood:-

 

2 Gadwall  

1 Coot

1 Barnacle Goose with Canadas - nervous, calling today, looking at me warily, keeping to back off flock

1 Common Gull

2 Goosander - switching between Ogden and Holden Wood

7 Snipe

10 Teal

1 Moorhen

no passerines except a 1-2 Great Tit and Blue Tit

min 20 Lapwing

no Oystercatcher heard on both res#

no singing birds at all

 

Ogden:-

5-6 Goldeneye - making it 5 species off ducks seen today of course small numbers of Mallards around

1 Buzzard

 

Calf Hey:-

nothing on

 

 



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Curlew - bird bubbling above Calf Hey 30/3/18 and pair at Stonefold

Black headed Gulls chasing Herons and large Gulls - could they breed at the quarries?

Great Black Backed Juveniles sighted 1-3

Marsh Harrier crossing over from Heap Clough to Musbury - first noticed with a Buzzard circled but looked different jizz.....as it flew across I could see uniform dark under wing pattern ...did not see head..... very different jizz than Buzzard...A Young with me too but did not see enough of it for him to conclude

2 greylag over Holden Wood 30/3/18 - flew west not seen at other reservoirs

sand Martin 4/4/18

maybe 3 pairs Kestrel at Quarries similar number around Reservoirs

Raven - 1 bird heading to Hutch Bank and 2 others above Musbury Heights...

Siskin - plantation next to Jamestones - 21/3/18

Meadow Pipits displaying since 14/3/18 but since 21st numbers have shot up...

Skylarks ...numbers seem lower only a few singing around Stonefold and Quarries...

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A couple of trips over the last week:-


08/4/18 - min of 6 Swallows at Holden Wood Reservoir
08/4/18 - 1 male Common Scoter at Calf Hey - thanks to A Young
08/4/18 - 2 male Wheatears at Stonefold
08/4/18 - 4 Shelduck on Mitchells House Reservoir - having had 1 in 2015 ..now my tally totals 5!!!

10-20 House Sparrows in Stonefold area

08/4/18 - a cloud of Starlings maybe even over 300 at Stonefold....a bit of a mini-murm!!! shame it was not a maxi-murm!!!

08/4/18 - 3 Curlew at Stonefold

 

09/04/18   - min 80 Fieldfare in bacup and 1 Chiffchaff in song

Walk Around reservoirs and Heap Clough on Wed 11 April :_


2 Grey Partridge - 1 at start of middle path above Ogden and 1 at Jamestone 1

1 Red Grouse before flushed from heathery bit just before stream and clough.


Saturday 14 april

1 House Martin maybe 2 at EBSW
min 50 Swallows
5 Sand Martin
1 Blackcap
2 Willow Warbler
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming
mainly Corvids there
1 Grey Wagtail

Holden Wood Res:-

1 Willow Warbler singing
2 Pied Wagtails
not many Ducks seen
12 Swallows



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Tuesday 17 April:-

Visit to Holden Wood, Alden and Musbury

14 Linnet in Alden Valley
1 Golden Plover flying off from Tor



Wednesday 18 April:-


Brief Visit to Ashworth Moor

2 Tree Pipit calling and flying over and on into Rossendale.
1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling




Thursday 19 April

Visit to Grane and Stonefold


Big fall of Willow Warblers - min 10 around Grane Reservoirs
min 6 Reed Buntings - around Holden Wood highest I have seen for a few months
1 Coot - which disappeared by Friday
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Tufted Duck - pair at Jamestone's Quarry no1
2 Blackcap - at Holden Wood and Calf Hey
1 Stonechat at Calf Hey
2 pairs of Curlew min - Calf hey and Haslingden Moor
3 Wheatears - including a pair with a singing male


At Stonefold - 3 Buzzard, min 150 Gulls - approx half Herring Gull immatures and half Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 2 Wheatear males, 2 Reed Buntings, min 3 Redpoll, 4 pairs of Kestrel from Stonefold to Mitchells House Reservoir



Friday 20 April

Visit to Holden Wood and Musbury
1 Common Snipe drumming in Musbury - my first ever drumming Snipe in Rossendale
2 pairs of Curlew on Musden Head Moor
1 Stonechat singing in Musbury
0 Wheatears in Mubsury when previously at this time of year I had double figures.
2 Kestrel - pair
min 2 Redpolls



Saturday 21 April

Visit to Holden Wood, Musbury, Ewood Bridge, Ashworth Moor Reservoir and Stonefold


3 Reed Buntings - 2 males and a female feeding on walls and chasing each other




Managed to miss the Cuckoo, Ring Ouzel and the Great Grey Shrike all by a day :(

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Must add Teal from 25th April at Holden Wood.

 

27th April minimum 200 Swallows, Martins over Holden Wood - approx. 3 House Martins, 20 Sand Martins rest Swallows.

29th April - Mitchells House Reservoir and Stonefold - 7 Wheatears , 8 Reed Buntings at Mitchells House


2nd May - 4 Wheatear at Holden Wood and first 2 Lapwing chicks seen

 

2nd May  approx. 70-80 Pied wagtails at EBSW about 7.30pm.   At least 2 looked White Wagtails,   minimum of 200 Jackdaws flew off to roost.


4th May:-


Holden Wood Reservoir :- 3 Wheatears, 6 Reed Buntings, 1 Kestrel, 2 Dunnock, Great Crested Grebe pair, 1 Common Sandpiper

Ogden:- 4 Linnet, 1 Great Crested Grebe,  1 Reed Bunting


Calf Hey:- 1 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling near dam wall, 1 pair Stonechat, 2 Reed Bunting

Heap Clough and Quarries - 3 Common Sandpiper Territories, 3 Wheatear, 1 Mediterranean Gull adult in full summer plumage with Black-headed Gulls in fields next to car park at heap Clough, 6 Linnet, 1 pair Curlew, 5 Reed Bunting around Quarries

13 Stone Hill - 1 Snipe, 1 pair Curlew, a few pairs of Lapwing


Good day for Meadow Pipits and Skylarks



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6th May   -  Cuckoo calling and Grasshopper Warbler reeling in Musbury

 

9th May  - Whitethroat at scrub near car park at Holden Wood Dam wall.  Second bird noted around 16th May - a female presumably.   9 Lapwing young noted too.   Mallard with 11 young.

 

Friday 11th May BBS Square at Stonefold :-

 

skylark     5

great tit   2

chaffinch   2

stock dove  4

dunnock     1

carrion crow        2

pied wagtail 4

meadow pipit  6

linnet      1

woodpigeon  6

Reed Bunting  3

Goldfinch 7

Jackdaw   4

Bullfinch   1

Swallow    6

Redpoll   2

Wheatear  1

Kestrel   2

 

Saturday  19th May at Holden Wood:-

5 Moorhen

3 Common Sandpiper - pair mating.

Teal pair.

5 Ravens

 

Sunday 20 may:-

1 Juvenile Grey wagtail at Musbury ....looking developed,....

Monday 21st May :-

Cuckoo at Calf hey - sounds exactly like Musbury bird heard on may 6th.   Not heard in Musbury on 20th May

1 adult Mediterranean Gull at Calf Hey then flew to Ogden - hawking insects.  

min 10 Starlings feeding at Holden Wood reservoir

stonechat with min 4 young on hill side

 

Tuesday 22nd May:-

1 Mediterranean Gull adult circling before King Hillock Wood

2 Collared Dove at Holden Arms

 Mallard with 11 young still going strong.  

 

Visit to Clowbridge in afternoon and highlight was 1 Ringed Plover minimum.  

Water level has dropped a lot with mud exposed creating good feeding for 5 species of Wader, Mallards, Moorhen, Gulls.  Wren numbers seem a bit down.  

 

Butterflies :-

min 10 Orange Tip  on 6th May - 3 at Holden Wood and 7 in Musbury

1 Large White Butterfly on Friday 18th May at Holden Wood and 21st May too same place.

1 Small Copper at Holden Wood on 21st May.

1 each of Speckled Wood, Tortoisehell and Peacock at Holden Wood 22nd may

Decent numbers of Green-veined White and Orange Tip at Holden Wood.

 

Dragonfly and Damsel fly:-

a large red Damsel fly mature male at Calf hey - photo should be attached please feel free to correct.

 

 

 



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Tuesday  22 May   -  Common Sandpiper over Haslingden at midnight, heard not seen,   Tawny Owl heard quite regularly recently too

Wednesday 23 May - approx 8 juvenile Starlings with in small group with adults,  about 17 Lapwings flew off together - - only 2-3 pairs in field - 1 relatively large young soon

 

Thursday 24 May - 1 single Dunlin at Ashworth Moor Reservoir with Common Sandpiper also 5 Lapwings

 

Friday 25th May - approx 10 drake Mallards at Holden Wood - female with 11 ducklings who are now 2 weeks old at least going strong.  Lots of Gulls - mainly Lesser Black-Backed at Mitchells House - pair of Bullfinch in quarry, Blackcap too 

 

Saturday 26 May - Whitetroat still at Holden Wood, Bullfinches calling, min 2 Linnet pairs.  Brief visit to EBSW - min 40 Black-headed Gulls and min 40 Jackdaws.  Strongstry - highlight pair of Redpoll sadly no sign of Wood Warbler or Garden Warblers.   



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Rosy Starlings are on the move in Europe and there is no reason why one will not turn up here. Hundreds recorded in some countries, so far a trickle here but who knows - will be the best year to get one!!!


Cuckoo seen and heard calling when I was at Holden Wood on Monday 28 May - located on the Holden Wood Side of that Hutch Bank hill - sitting on wall, wires and then flying across to Musbury about 5pm=-ish. Paul and Neil Burke had it at Musbury earlier on that day. Cuckoo was calling from same place today when I was at Holden Wood - not visible and calling less frequently. I have been to Holden Wood everyday this week but not heard from Tuesday to Thursday.
5 Oystercatcher too - which were also present on Sunday.


Tuesday 29 May - 1 fledged Pied Wagtail with adult at Holden Wood. Some fledged Meadow Pipits too. Grasshopper Warbler reeled briefly - first I have had here this year. Paul Burke had one last week.
Lapwing have nested in fields next to lane which leads to reservoir from Holcombe Road - one very large young - Sparrowhawk landed on ground mobbed by many Lapwings but luckily did not take that young. Young Grey Wagtail also.

Thursday 31 May - Blackcap singing from scrub near Holden Wood car park and another singing from near antiques- first I have heard from these locations this year.
Trip to Stonefold - 200-300 Starlings - many juveniles. 10 Goldfinch approx. 4 Linnet, 2 Reed Buntings, 2 Curlews.


Friday 1 June - Cuckoo calling today at Holden Wood again as mentioned previously. Mallard with 11 young going strong. Whitethroat could be heard across Holcome Road probably in that scrubby area around the old Holden Vale flash - a second singing bird in area?


Butterfly news:-

1 Gatekeeper out today and still 1 Wall Brown. 



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June 5th  -  a Cinnabar moth in Haslingden 

June 13th  - Hummingbird Hawkmoth at a Haslingden Garden 

June 17th - first Meadow Brown of the year for me at Holden Wood

 

June 3 - 9 Oystercatcher at Holden Wood and 1 Dunlin

June 6th - quite a few Pied Wagtail fledged

June 13th - no Crossbills at Calf Hey

June 14 - very showy Grasshopper Warbler above Holden Wood and an adult/near adult Great Black Backed Gull over Ogden , 11 Mallard young fully grown almost, 1 female Mallard with 1 small young

June 21 - 2 family parties of fledged Swallows - 8 young in total

 

Grane and Musbury today 22/6/18   8am - 12.40

 

Whitethroat singing in scrub at dam wall Holden Wood

min 20 fledged Swallows at top end  Holden Wood

family party of 4 Linnet - male feeding young  Holden Wood

Willow Warbler family party of 4-5 at Holden Wood

1 Dunlin at Holden Wood

4 Cormorants at Holden Wood 

2-3 Reed Bunting at Holden Wood

min 15 Meadow Pipit at Holden Wood

1 Blackcap at Holden Wood

2 Blackbirds at Holden Wood

1 fledged juvenile Robin at Holden Wood

family party of 3 Grey Wagtail at Holden Wood

min 7 Pied Wagtail immatures

4 Common Sandpiper

1 Curlew above farm

1 Snipe

 

Musbury:-

min 30 Meadow Pipits

min 10 Skylark

Stonechat pair

 

 

Ogden and Calf Hey:-

4 Buzzards soaring and hovering above reservoirs

min 5 Kestrels above reservoirs

family party of Blue Tits in woods at Calf Hey

Blackbird pair at Calf Hey

min 20 Woodpigeons at calf hey - min 40 throughout

no time to have a look in woods 

2 Wren at Calf hey - they feel a bit depleted

Stonechat pair above Ogden

1 Common Sandpiper alarming at Ogden



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Min of 20 fledged Lapwings on Holden Wood on Sunday 24 June and 2 Dunlin too.

25 June min 17 oystercatcher - 9 on Calf hey and 8 on Holden Wood



28 June


Holden Wood:- family of Long Tailed Tits in car park scrub, Blue Tit family at top end, min 10 Pied Wagtails mostly young birds,

Ogden:- what could only have been Twite passing higher above slope near ruined building - call was identical, possible Tree Pipit in area,

Calf Hey - min 30 Rooks coming from Haslingden Moor side to feed above Calf hey with Crows - early Whinberry?, a Rossendale first in the form of Crossbills - female flew over woods above steps into conifers and possibly 2-3 more birds around, min 12 Redpoll, Min 5 Siskin ., 1 Common Sandpiper on res, Tree Pipit called and a Pipit seen just up from wooden bridge over stream, Coal Tits quite active, 1 female Bullfinch by feeder

Quarries:- 1 male Wheatear,

Quite a few Willow Warbler in song around, Meadow Pipits displaying,


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Friday 30 June visit to Stonefold as part of BBS:-

 

Blackbird 3

Chaffinch 6

Reed Bunting 1

Crow     15

Skylark 4

Meadow Pipit 12

Linnet 2

Great tit 4 - 2 adults and 2 young

Magpie 4  - family party

Goldfinch 24

Curlew 1

Woodpigeon 15

Redpoll 2

Lapwing 3

Swallow 14

Kestrel 1

Pied wagtail 1

Stock Dove 2

 

Also of note approx. 60 Swallows around Stonefold village - many family parties with recently fledged young

 

Visits to Grane over last week:-

 

Family parties of Grey Wagtail noted over last week at Holden Wood, Calf Hey and Jamestones

Family parties of Swallows at Holden Wood - approx. 50 Swallows on 7/7/18 with 8 House Martins and 4 sand Martins

Starlings - approx. 200 at Holden Wood on 7/7/18  - not present before that or even on the 8th today.

Mallards female noted with 8 well grown young at Ogden on 4/7/18  and with 3 young at Calf Hey on 5/7/18

Pied Wagtails about 10 present at Holden Wood - majority are immatures

Goldfinch - 30-40 present at Holden Wood on 7/7/17

Grasshopper Warbler reeling  8/7/18

Meadow Pipits, Blackbirds, Wren, Song Thrush, Chaffinch, Willow Warbler, Blackcap singing 6/7/18 at Grane

Reed Bunting - on average 4-5  individuals seen most days but some young birds too. 

Mallards  20 plus at Holden Wood many drakes in eclipse.

approx. 20 Lapwing around Holden Wood

Mistle Thrush - 2 at Musbury Heights

2 Little Owls in Musbury

Stonechat 1-2 seen seem to be keeping a low profile. 

Oystercatcher 4-8 usually seen.

Common Sandpiper nesting at Calf Hey

Moorhen  - 1 seen today and yesterday at Holden Wood but no sign of young?

House Sparrows - over 20 opposite Holden Arms

 

Stonefold today 8/7/18 approx. 50 House Sparrows around village.   1 Great Black Backed Gull juvenile at Mitchells House Res.

 

Butterflies:-

Ringlet - ROC tick for me - 3 min at Stonefold  8/7/18

Green-veined White - 30 plus at Stonefold and 20 plus at Holden Wood    8/7/18

Small Copper 1 at Holden Wood today   8/7/18

Small Skippers min  10 at Holden Wood and 10 at Stonefold   8/7/18

Red Admiral - 1 at Stonefold 8/7/18

Small Tortoiseshells - min 12 at Stonefold and min 10 at Holden wood  8/7/18   -  bit of an explosion in sightings today.

Meadow Browns  - 20 plus at Holden Wood and Stonefold  8/7/17

Gatekeeper - 1-2 at Holden Wood 8/7/18

Common Wall - 1 at Holden Wood 8/7/18



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