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Ewood Bridge

1 whitethroat (at last!) singing next to the football field. At least 200 hirundines over the sewage works - mostly swallows but perhaps 50 house martins and 10 sand martins. 4 blackcaps, 4 chiffchaffs and one or two willow warblers between Groundwork and EBSW

Holden Wood

1 white wagtail and 2 wheatears in the lapwing field. A pair of stonechats at the top end. 1 great black-backed gull (Sarfraz).

Above Jamestones/Troy

25 wheatears - 19 in various small groups above Jamestones, 4 then 2 along the track past Troy to the moors. Male ring ouzel in the same location as Sunday. No teal/tufties seen around Grane today

Thirteen Stone Hill

One snipe chipping then drumming on the east side - a splendid though sadly rare site in Rossendale these days. Also two bubbling curlews, two lapwings around here, plus stock dove, reed bunting, 15 starlings and a few swallows around a nest site.

Cribden Flats

4 wheatears, 18 linnets, 10 starlings

Andy (plus Brian EBSW and Sarfraz round Grane)

 



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Hi Andy,

Glad the weather improved for you and you got good Wheatear numbers were there many females....I can add

Two pair Curlew displaying over Moor road, plus several Lapwing feeding.

Three pair of Sand Martins excavating nests on the Irwell at Strongstry.

Another Whitethroat on the cycle track at Alderbottom, plus three pair Blackcap and several Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs.

Single Tawny Owl at day roost.

Regards Brian.



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Hi Brian

Re the wheatears I think reasonable numbers of females although the majority still males (unless Sarfraz disagrees!). Birds were moving through and we only saw the back end of a good number of them.

Andy 



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