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Neil Burke has drawn my attention to a message on the Greater Manchester Bird Forum pointing out that there is an active group of egg-thieves operating from the Heywood area and that they trawl forums such as these to get clues as to the location of nests birds of prey etc. When posting on the Forum pleas...
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STICKY:
Spreadsheet for Rossendale Bird records
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If anyone is looking for a relatively simple way of storing their bird notes electronically, I've posted a sticky in the General Discussion section on this topic.
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STICKY:
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Just before the breeding season, it may be worth reminding users that, being a public forum, not everyone reading these messages will have the welfare of the birds at heart. Please take care not to put at risk the nest sites of sensitive species. Either make the description deliberately vague or do...
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*** PLEASE READ *** - New sighting entry facility
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Those of you who also use the East Lancashire forum will have seen an announcement about a new facility for entering birds records online via the ELOC website.
Tony Cooper of ELOC emailed me during December 2006 kindly inviting ROC to make use of this facility. Due to other pressure...
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STICKY:
Forum guidelines - PLEASE READ
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Welcome to the Rossendale Birds and Wildlife Forum
The forums within this site are provided for the purpose of recording sightings of the various groups within the Rossendale Borough boundary.
You do not have to register in order to use the forum simply for reading the existing messages.&...
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Rossendale Wildlife Thread 2021 Part 1 -
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This should cover from 1st of January to 30th June 2021 January 1st 184 Pink Footed Geese heading west in 2 skeins of 138 and 46. Grane Visit 08/01/21 Holden Wood Reservoir:- Carrion Crow 8Bullfinch 1Common Gull min 4Raven 2Wren 5Great Tit 2Black-headed Gull min 60Coot 1Blue Tit 4Meadow Pipit...
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Holcomb 18th April 21.
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Stroll along Moorbottom rd with Susan in the afternoon produced 5 R Ouzel, our 1st Common Whitethroat of the year singing, a Tree Pipit calling heading North and 3 Fieldfare nr Red Brook. Its getting very late for them now! And Zillions of people  Also had our first Green Hairstreaks ( 2 ) and a Male O...
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Rossendale Rookeries, 18th April 2021
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Went round all known and many previous sites, other than Bob's from yesterday and the full list is as follows: Acre, 20, Farmer's Glory, 14 Broadclough, 18, Bacup, 3, Rook Hill, 45, Peers Clough, 12, Water, 22, Graver Weir, 4, Crawshawbooth (St. John's), c30 Goodshaw (St. Mary's), 8, Goodshaw (Fou...
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River Irwell Strongstry.
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Sunny 16 degrees and calm. Sand Martin....after a late and slow start the nesting colony is now 20+ and very actively nest building at at least 9 holes. Grey Wagtail.....two pair on territory with active nest sites. Dipper....two pair, one pair feeding young at the nest and other female sitting. Gre...
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Healey Dell, 18th April 2021
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15:00-15:30 Went to check for Rooks at the old site but none there! The following were noted in a brief visit: Sparrowhawk, male in display, Stock Dove, pair, Green Woodpecker, 1 over, landed in a tree before flying off! Grey Wagtail, calling bird, Song Thrush, singing bird, Chiffchaff, 2 singing bi...
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Lower Irwell Valley, 18th April 2021
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10:00-12:00 Grey Heron, pair at nest, Goosander, pair flew upstream, Buzzard, soaring pair plus a single, Moorhen, 2, Collared Dove, pair, Kingfisher, 1, Swallow, group of 3, Sand Martin, c24 birds at the colony, Grey Wagtail, 2, Pied Wagtail, 2, Song Thrush, 2 singing birds, Dipper, 3 singles inc...
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Clough Bottom and Windy Bank
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Clough Bottom Common Sandpiper 1 Pied Wagtail 1 Kestrel 1 Linnet 2 pair Willow Warbler good numbers Wheatear 1m Curlew calling bird Chaffinch calling birds Goldfinch 3+3+3 Mallard 1 m Canada Goose 7 Blackbird 2 Carrion Crow to many Wood Pigeon plenty Coal Tit calling bird Dunnock 3 Robin 4 Meadow P...
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Reedsholme - Greenfold 17/4/21
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Afternoon ramble - Shortclough res. 8 Canada Goose 2pr Coot - 1pr nest building 1pr Moorhen 2 Little Grebe 1 Willow Warbler 1 Buzzard high over Goodshaw 1 Stock Dove at Bridgeley Bank + 1 Nuthatch 1 Blue Tit to nest hole Chaffinch Robin Great Tit No Swallows here yet. Greenfold 1 Pheasant calling 1m Ree...
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Ring Ouzel Turn Village 16th April 21
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1 male in sheep fields early afternoon.
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Swallows 16/4/21.
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3 Swallows on wires at Haslingden Cemetry this afternoon. Bob.
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Wood Warbler C/booth 15th April 21
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Male singing outside our house (folly tip) at 08.45 this morning. Heard 3 times clearly, just the trill part, but i had to dash off to school with my daughter. When I got back, silence!, despite a good search even up towards Greenfold.. Would really have liked to check that bird for Bonellis as extreme...
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The Hile, 15th April 2021
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19:00-20:30 Canada Goose, 2 pr, Mallard, 5 over, Curlew, pair, lots of calling, Lapwing, single flew over, Stock Dove, pair, Tawny Owl, 1, Little Owl, 1, Pied Wagtail, 2, Grey Wagtail, 2, Apologies for poor pictures as light was almost gone! Regards, David.
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blackcaps 14/04/2021
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2 singing blackcaps were in Trickett's Memorial Ground this morning cheers Kevin
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Clough Bottom, 13th April 2021
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late evening. Grey Partridge, single bird ran up the dam bank. My first for a while! Fieldfare, c25 on Swallow Shore. Regards, David.
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Crawshawbooth area 12/4/21
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Late post for 12/4/21 Shortclough res. 8+ Canada Geese inc. 1 sitting bird c8 Mallard - mostly males c3 Moorhen 4 Coot 1 pr Little Grebe - my first on here for years 2 pr Long-tailed Tit - Bonfire Hill Quarry 1 Buzzard over Folly Clough soared off high 1 Nuthatch calling - Folly Clough Rook counts - 8 nests a...
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Common Scoter Nocturnal Migration
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11/4/21 Common Scoter flying over Newchurch at around 22:00 and 23:45 Moorhen also flying over. Regards Ian
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Mostly Grane 12/4
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Ring Ouzel still present on Picker Hill (I could only find one). Along the top path between Jamestones and Hutch Bank 5 wheatears, one stonechat and a good smattering of pied wagtails and linnets. Also yesterday one common sandpiper on the river nr K Steel Andy
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Deerplay
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Garden Feeders this morning 3 siskin 1 M and 2 F
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Reedsholme 12/4/21
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1 Chiffchaff singing at Leabrook on Pr Grey Wagtail at possible nest site - Reedsholme Dipper at Reedsholme + Heron flying up the valley Singing birds include Wren, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Nuthatch, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Goldfinch Total lack of Green Woodpecker in this area so far this year, us...
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Grane 11/04/21
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cormorant - 7 at Holden Wood grey heron - 1 over Holden Wood Canada goose - c170, with c110 at Holden Wood mallard - c15 teal -3 at Holden Wood (seen by Sarfraz) goosander - redhead on Holden Wood ( Sarfraz later had 2 redheads & a drake) goldeneye - 1m & 1f (Sarfraz had 2fs here) on Calf Hey, 1m &...
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Clowbridge, 10th April 2021
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Morning. Cormorant, 2, Canada Goose, 8, Mallard, 4, Goosander, single male took off to the east, Buzzard, pair then a single soaring, Kestrel, 2 singles, Curlew, at least 2 pairs, Lapwing, only saw a single but as footpath closed only limited viewing, Skylark, c12, many in song, Meadow Pipit, c30, P...
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Clough Bottom reservoir/swallow shore
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Cormorant
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2 pair of Lesser redpoll feeding together on Larch
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Strongstry woods and river.
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Calm sunny, 5 degrees. 0800/1030 hrs. Of note.... Goosander.....3 pair feeding along the river. Dipper....pair on territory at Strongstry, single only at Alderbottom. Grey Wagtail....3 pair, one pair with nest materials. Grey Heron....Single at Alderbottom. No Sand Martins at nest site.......
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Kite species
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I was with Gidzy above Crow Trees Cottage on Grane Road just watching a Sparrowhawk when he caught a large raptor going across from Hog Lowe Pike towards Top O Knoll. Watching it move we realised it was not a Buzzard. It was not particularly high - fairly low in fact. It would circle back. It moved qu...
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Western Moors, 9th April 2021
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Either side of Noon. Buzzard, soaring birds in many locations. A group of 5 birds were soaring together over Irwell Vale, Sparrowhawk, female over the tops, Kestrel, 3 singles, Pheasant, calling male from rushy field, Lapwing, 6 birds on the very top; unusual here! Oystercatcher, 1 calling at EBSW...
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