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Grane 18/02/18
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  • Canada goose - 34 flew away from Holden Wood towards Hutch Bank leaving a pr & a single. 25 at Ogden. 1pr & a single were in Jamestone Quarry
  • teal - 1pr at Holden Wood & 14 birds at Calf Hay
  • mallard - c6 at Holden Wood, 3prs at Calf Hey & 1m at Jamestones
  • goldeneye - 3 females at Ogden, 3 females on Calf Hey were probably the same 3 birds seen at Ogden.  1 male in Jamestone Quarry
  • red grouse - 1pr on Haslingden Moor
  • pheasant - 1 male at Holden Wood
  • cormorant - 1 at Holden Wood & 5 at Ogden in the morning.  27 in the roost at Holden Wood at 16:00hrs. Also dead bird hanging in branches of roost trees
  • great crested grebe - 1 at Holden Wood
  • buzzard - 2
  • kestrel - min 4
  • moorhen - 1 at Holden Wood
  • oystercatcher - 1pr at Jamestone Quarry
  • golden plover - 6 on Haslingden Moor
  • lapwing - min 53 at Holden Wood.  5 flew in from the west over Calf Hey
  • snipe - 1 on Haslingden Moor.  Brian reported 10 at Holden Wood before I arrived
  • black-headed gull - c40 at Holden Wood, 13 at Ogden, c40 at Calf Hey.  c100 passed over Holden Wood heading west @ 16:00
  • lesser black-backed gull - c6 over heading south east @ 11:20
  • herring gull - 13 flew south @ 9:30, flocks of c40 & c25 flew south east @ 11:20, flocks of 19 & 2 flew west over Ogden @ 15:15, flocks of 7& 15 flew west @ 16:05.  12 were on Ogden in the morning
  • great black-backed gull - 7 were on Ogden in the morning & 6 flew south east with herring gulls @ 11:20
  • stock dove - 2 singles & a flock of 6 flew over Holden Wood towards Musbury. A single & a flock of 3 were over Calf Hey, 6 were in Jamestone Quarry & 1 was at Heap Clough
  • woodpigeon - flock of 30 at Ogden, a flock of 10 at Heap Clough & 1 sat on a nest at Camms
  • green woodpecker - probably 2 yaffling birds around the reservoirs
  • great spotted woodpecker - 1 at Holden wood
  • magpie - c6
  • jackdaw - 14 at Holden Wood
  • carrion crow - c10 around the reservoirs, 19 on Haslingden Moor & a flock of 285 over Deep Clough flying towards Calf Hey
  • goldcrest - 2 at Calf Hey, singles feeding quietly on the ground
  • blue tit - 14
  • great tit - 8
  • coal tit - 9
  • long-tailed tit - min 8 at Holden Wood
  • nuthatch - 4 at Calf Hey & 1 at Clough Head
  • treecreeper - 1 at Calf Hey
  • wren - not a single bird recorded around the reservoirs, quarries or at Heap Clough!!
  • starling - 5 at Holden Vale. c50 with Lapwings at Holden Wood & 1 with fieldfares & redwings at calf Hey
  • dipper - 1 at Holden Wood & 2 at Camms
  • blackbird - 8 at Calf Hey
  • fieldfare - c70 at Calf Hey
  • song thrush - 2 at Calf Hey, 1 at Holden Wood & 1 at Holden Vale
  • redwing - c6 at Calf Hey
  • mistle thrush - singing birds at Holden Wood & Calf Hey
  • robin - 17, mostly at Calf Hey
  • dunnock - 3 singing birds
  • grey wagtail - 2 at Ogden
  • meadow pipit - just a single at Holden Wood
  • chaffinch - c10, including 3 singing birds
  • greenfinch - 1 over Holden Wood
  • goldfinch - c36 in flocks to 8

cheers Kevin with Brian Kirkwood at Holden Wood



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