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*** Posting information about sensitive species ***
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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:
*** REMINDER - Postings about sensitive species ***
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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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Spring Mill Res etc 17/05/26
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Spring Mill Resgreat crested grebe - 1prcormorant - 1 flew away from the resCanada goose - 10mallard - 2 malespheasant - 2 calling birdslesser black-backed gull - 3swift - 4swallow - 6house martin - 4grey wagtail - malepied wagtail - 1woodpigeon - 6stonechat - 5 juvs together & a male at the other...
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Clough Bottom 17 5 26
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Clough Bottom Whitethroat 2 Blackcap 1 Willow Warbler c10 Siskin 1 over Redpoll 2 over Linnet 4 Chaffinch Goldfinch Bullfinch 1 Sky Lark 3 Meadow Pipit 3 Reed Bunting 2 Blackbird Song Thrush 1 Blue Tit 4 Great Tot Coal Tit 3 Goldcrest calling birds Jackdaw birds over Carrion Crow birds over Magpie 2 Wo...
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Rossendale Wildlife Thread 2026
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2 January walk around Grane and Quarries and highlights were approx 30 Mallard on Holden Wood and 5 Goldeneye on Calf hey 4 January visit to Holden Wood early morning 5 Snipe, 27 Lapwing in 3 different flocks including 9 on the breeding field, 1 Woodcock, 80 plus Fieldfare in hedge with sm...
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Clough Bottom 15th May 2026
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10:00-11:00 Canada Goose, single on the res, Buzzard, 3 soaring birds towards Deerplay, Kestrel, 1 on Swallow Shore and 1 towards Deerplay, Pheasant, male at Windy Bank, Lapwing, 1 on Swallow Shore, Curlew, singles on Red Moss & Swallow Shore, Lesser Black Backed Gull, c80 on the res with much c...
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Behavioural Mechanisms & bird ethology
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Today,20th April, magpie chattering happily in tree where nest was built. This tree already full of flowering leaves and nest almost invisible. There are two adjacent trees(one taller-different species of tree) but both very bare of leaves so nest site would be fully exposed if built in either on...
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Cuckoo - Calf Hey 12/05/26
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Out for an evening wander with Neil, and a cuckoo was calling from the Top o'Knoll area of Calf Hey reservoir.
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Ashworth Moor Reservoir 10/5/2026
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AMR 1 Whimbrel flew from banking to dam wall calling 2 Curlew 3 Common Sandpiper 1 Little Ringed Plover 1 Lapwing 1 Little Owl 1 Kestrel 5 Swallow 6 Pied Wagtail 3 Stonechat 4 Wheatear 2 Willow Warbler 20+ Jackdaw 5 Linnet 1 Mallard 3 Meadow Pipit 1 Skylark 3 Herring Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 3 He...
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Clough Bottom Res 03/05/26
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Canada goose - 2prsmallard - 3 drakesmoorhen - 1, the first that both Peter and I can remember up herebuzzard - 1oystercatcher - 1common sandpiper - 1prcurlew - 2lesser black-backed gull - peak count of 50 on the res, but lots of coming and going, with probably over 300 birds passing through between 11...
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Cloughbottom res
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1700-1830hrs very still and calm, still warm and not much of a breeze. Song thrush Jay single in the plantation Redpoll flew over north plantation Chaffinch Willow Warbler Garden warbler west side of the res Stonechat 1M &1F together and another male Reed bunting 1 calling on the res a...
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Clowbridge 1100hrs
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Grey heron top pond Single common sandpiper Pair ofgreat crested grebe 6 goldfinch Chaffinch Willow warbler calling all over Mallard pair with 11 ducklings top pond Redpoll over top pond at least 3 Pied wagtail Song thrush Curlew pair in top field with Lapwings counted 6 but possibly mo...
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Edgeside 2 5 26
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Edgeside Late post for Friday the 1 5 26 Swift c15 2 5 26 Swift 4 Peter
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The Musbury Valley
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12 + starlings amongst rusting agricultural machinery. 1 grey heron in the river - fair number of butterflies on the edges of the birch woodland - large numbers of green-veined whites(which haunt the wet, woodland edges)c.12+, a fair number of orange tips c.20, and at least 6+ Peacocks. Blackbir...
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Clough bottom 1100hrs
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Chaffinch Goldfinch 4 together Siskin Coal tit Goldcrest Whitethroat 2 both either side of the main road Chiffchaff Willow warbler Grasshopper warbler 2 reeling around res. Stonechat male and a female together Reed bunting 1F 3M Song thrush Mistle thrush Herring gull a100 Cormor...
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Clough Bottom 27-4-26 10:00-11:00
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Kestrel Pair Bullfinch At least 10 Willow Warblers singing Pair Little Ringed Plover displaying Goldcrest singing ~5 Blackcaps singing 3 Garden Warblers singing 6+ Whitethroats singing Song Thrush singing Curlew over Siskin over Good number of Redpoll displaying Goldfinches Chaffinches Hou...
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Whitewell bottom 26 April 1900hrs
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Pair of Sparrowhawks displaying bullfinch greenfinch song thrush at 5 seen and two more calling swifts over the house this morning 27th cheers, Phil
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clough Bottom 7.30-8.30
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Chiffchaff
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Clough Bottom 26 4 26
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Clough Bottom Tree Pipit 2 Meadow Pipit 4 Sky Lark 2 Stonechat 2 Reed Bunting 5 minimum Bullfinch calling birds Goldfinch 8 Greenfinch 1 Chaffinch several Dunnock 3 Blue Coal and Great Tits Cormorant 1 Canada Geese 11 Mallard 4 L B B Gull 150 Herring Gull 10 Peter and John Redstart Stacksteads cemete...
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Overnight 26-4-26
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Not a lot happening at the present but last night 1 Whimbrel call at 3:00am
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greenfold 24/4/26
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Wheatear passage continues with groups of 3 + 6 + 1 Usual Lapwings & Curlew present but little song from larks and pipits. Bob.
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Stacksteads 19 4 26
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Stacksteads Cemetery Willow Warbler 2 Blackcap 2 Dunnock 1 Song Thrush 1 Blackbird Coal Great Blue tit Wren Robin Chaffinch 6 Robin plenty Goldfinch 2 Peter
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Clowbridge 19 4 26
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Oystercatcher 1 over calling Common Sand Piper 1 calling G C Grebe 1 pair Reed Bunting 2 Meadow Pipit 4 Sky Lark 2 Buzzard 1 over Chaffinch 4 Goldfinch 2 Willow Warbler c8 K Steels Area Chiff Chaff 2 Willow Warbler 3 Blackcap 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Dipper 1 Peter and John
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Helmshore village & environs
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1 pair of magpie working very hard with large twigs in bills nest-building in fork of deciduous tree. Third successive day they have been carrying twigs to nest, using their wedge-shaped tails as a rudder to balance the weight of the twigs. Another pair on conifer tree some way away, nest probably fro...
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Cloughbottom 0700-0930hrs
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Song thrush Pheasant 3 Grasshopper warbler at least 5 calling around the res Willow warbler Chiffchaff Chaffinch Goldfinch Bullfinch 1F Goldcrest Reed bunting Stonechat Meadow pipit Curlew 6+ Oystercatcher 3 on res Goosander single red head Goldeneye single female Grey wagt...
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Rook Nests 25 3 26
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Rook Hill Stacksteads 26 Broadclough Bacup 8 Water park 33 Healy Whitworth Peter
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Clowbridge, 15th April 2026.
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1:00-1:30P.M. Buzzard, 1 towards Crown Point, Swallow, 1 south of the res, Willow Warbler, 5 singing in car park / boat house bushes, Long Tailed Tit, pair in car park, Raven, 1 over towards Nutshaw, Siskin, 1 over calling, Reed Bunting, male on the res bank, Regards, David.
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