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Staghills Woods and Warth 211214
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Staghills Woods (Trickett's Memorial to Lea Bank)kestrel - 1woodpigeon - c55great spotted woodpecker - 4grey wagtail - 1great tit - 14blue tit - 15coal tit - 2long tailed tit - calling birds not seengoldcrest - 1robin - 13redwing - 3 flocks of 6, 6 + 4blackbird - 13song thrush - 1nuthatch - 2 + 2 + 1treec...
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Irwell Valley, 21st Dec 2014
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10:00-11:00 Grey Heron, 1 sat in a tree at HTL, Mallard, 4 on HTL, Goosander, pair at Groundwork, Moorhen, swam across the river at Townsendfold, B.H.Gull, 2 along the river and c6 over south, Herring Gull, c15 over south in flocks to 7, Kingfisher, 1 at Townsendfold, Grey Wagtail, pair and a single at...
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Broadway, Helmshore evening Sat 20 Dec
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Aprox 200 Lapwings flying around flat top unit Aprox 1500 Starlings sky dancing Neil
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Holden Wood and Musbury
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8.30-1pm Holden Wood:- 3 grey herons min 70 b h gulls 2 common gulls 1 great black backed gull 4-5 herring gulls - immatures 15 mallard ......on way back maximum of 16 counted 2-3 cormorant...on way back 7 in trees 41 Canada geese 2 pied wagtails 1 grey wagtail 1 coot small flock of goldfin...
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Seat Naze and Edge Cote 141214
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snipe - 21jack snipe - 1black headed gull - 20common gull - 2tawny owl - 1 disturbed from roostgoldcrest - calling in plantation fieldfare - 1redwing - 8mistle thrush - 1blackbird - 4wren - 3starling - c400jay - 1magpie - 6crow - 16jackdaw - 6 cheers Kevin
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Cheesden Valley, 14th Dec 2014
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08:30-11:30 Cormorant, 1 sat in the top of a Hawthorn! Grey Heron, 1 on bottom Lodge, Teal, 24 on bottom lodge, 4 on scrape and 2 on top lodge, Mallard, c8, Kestrel, 1 at Edenfield on the drive up was the only sighting, Sparrowhawk, female hassled by crows at Deeply Vale, Pheasant, male & 2 females, M...
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Rawtenstall Cricket Club
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10am - 10.30am Peregrine circling over disturbing magpies and gulls. c30 house sparrows on feeders with great tits, blue tits and coal tits + 2 lesser redpoll. 1 grey and seven pied wagtails on field. 2 grey herons noisily interacting heading towards the Irwell. Tony
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Winter feeding station.
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A Grey Wagtail has been present all morning, feeding on meal worm, at the feeding station opposite my house. This is a first for this location. it was -4 here last night. For some reason yesterday's post went on twice, apologies. Regards Brian
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Clough Bottom, 13th Dec 2014
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08:00-09:00, -3 degrees, frozen around the edges! Cormorant, 1 flew down the Whitewell Valley, Canada Goose, 25 on the res, Mallard, c12, Lapwing, 2 on res bank, B.H.Gull, c20 on the res, Stock Dove, 1, Grey Wagtail, 1 on res bank, Meadow Pipit, 1 on res bank, Dipper, 1 flew up The Whitewell at the top en...
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Winter feeding station.rs
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After a very quite couple of months because of the fine weather it appears winter has has arrived with several days of sub zero temps, hail, sleet, rain and wind. The bonus is the feeding stations have come alive, below is a list of sightings at some time today, numbers are an average total. Blue Tit 26 s...
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Grane, 7th Dec 2014
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09:30-12:00 Cormorant, 1 feeding on Holden Wood & 1 on Ogden, Grey Heron, 1 flew over Calf Hey, Canada Goose, 39 on pasture at Holden Wood, Teal, 2 on Holden Wood & 2 on Calf Hey, Mallard, c8 on Calf Hey, Goldeneye, female on Jamestones, Goosander, male & 3 redheads on Calf Hey, Kestrel, 4 si...
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Clowbridge, 5th Dec 2014
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09:00-11:00 Cormorant, 1 sat on a pylon, Mallard, 2 males, Tufted Duck, male & 2 females, Goldeneye, male, Goosander, 5 feeding at top end inc 2 males plus single redhead on back pond, Kestrel, 2 hunting moors / top end, B.H.Gull, c20, Common Gull, c10, Herring Gull, 3 over south, L.B.B.Gull, 6 ov...
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River Irwell/Ogden Stubbins to Helmshore.,
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0800 hrs to 1300 hrs, sunny 4 degrees. Plenty of Tits all round the route, especially good numbers of Coal Tit, seven flocks of Long-tailed tits varying from 6 to 14. Struggled with Finches, the only ones in good numbers were Chaffinch especially where there was fallen Beechmast. Goldfinch were reas...
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GRANE THREE RESERVOIRS 03-12-2014
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Birds seen today Sparrowhawk Pied Wagtail Peregrine Goldfinch Magpie Mallard Meadow Pipit Thrush Moorhen Teal Carrion Crow Chaffinch Coal Tit Coot Cormorant Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Blackbird Black-Headed Gull Blue Tit Jay Fieldfare Robin Reed Bunting Stonechat Wren Cheers Crag...
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Help with ID please 03-12-2014
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I was up grane at calf hey and been seeing a number of Stonechat when this bird pop up (see photo) I thought it was a female Wheatear but its to late for them is it ? Cheers Craggy
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Wood Duck.
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The wood duck that was found in Snig Hole was in Strongstry this morning (unless there are two ?). Regards Brian.
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Clowbridge res. 30/11/14
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14:00hrs to dark 1 L.B.B.gull >S 2 Herring Gull >N 1f Tufted Duck 3 Reed Bunting 2 Goldcrest Flock of13 Long tailed Tit 7 Blue Tit 2 Kestrel 8 Mallard c150 mixed Common & B.H. Gull roosting at dusk with c30 Common Gull flying off W. on dark. 3 Wren in rushes at various points 239 Jackdaws flying o...
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Clough Bottom & Jack Lodge 30/11/14
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Clough Bottom areaCanada goose - 46teal - 1pheasant - 1cormorant - 1 flew from the res as we arrivedkestrel - 2lapwing - 29woodcock - 2black headed gull - 33common gull - 24stock dove - 2woodpigeon - 6magpie - 3rook - 1carrion crow - 6goldcrest - calling birds in 1 area not locatedblue tit - 2great tit - 1...
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Holden Wood, 30th Nov 2014
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08:30-09:30 A quick hour to see if there was any sign of the Rail but not for me today: Cormorant, 1 flew up the valley, Canada Goose, a flock of 30 down the valley, Teal, 3, Kestrel, male hunting over the rough field between the res and the road, Coot, 1, Snipe, 1 flushed from res bank dived back into cover a...
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Reedshome - Chapel Hill 29/11/14.
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Afternoon foray. 1 Dipper + 2 Blackbirds at Leabrook Twin Lodges c3 Redwing 6+ flock of Bullfinch 3 Greenfinch 3 Goldfinch 2 Sparrowhawk over hillside 1 Meadow Pipit Rawtenstall cemetry c6 Blackbird + 3 Redwing feeding on holly. Hurst Lane/Chapel Hill Small tit flock in hedge c100 starling flock...
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Grane 26/11/14
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Canada goose - 26 at Ogdenteal - 5 at Holden Wood & 8 at Calf Heymallard - 7 at Calf Hey, 5 at Troy Quarry and 14 at Holden Woodpheasant - 1m at Holden Woodcormorant - 4 at Holden Wood and 2 at Ogden at 10am then 14 in the roost at Holden Wood at 3:45 pmgrey heron - 1 at Holden Wood and 1 at Ogdenkestrel - birds a...
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Wood Duck
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I had a call from a friend about a strange Duck on the Ogden at Snig hole, on arrival I found a male Wood Duck in good condition and relaxed. This will be an escapee from a collection, but for anyone who has never seen this species it is worth a visit if it hangs round, it was in the large pool under the viaduct....
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Grane
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9.30-12.30 Nothing much out of the ordinary to be honest, nothing in good numbers. Holden Wood:- 5-6 meadow pipits, 1 grey heron 6 cormorants small number of teal 2 mallard 1 kestrel 6 wrens - including 3 around rusty iron fence Ogden:- 2 juv herring gulls Calf hey:- 2-3 mallard some flick of t...
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Cowpe 25/11/14
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Canada goose - 24 near Kearn's Millgrey heron - 1 at Lenchkestrel - 1 near Cowpe ResSnipe - 1 on Cowpe Moss (the only bird seen on the moss) and 1 near Tippett Farmblack headed gull - c80 near Cowpe Rescommon gull - c15 in the valleylesser black backed gull - flock of 3 over Rooley Moor Roadherring gull - 2 fl...
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Photographis highlights of the year in Rossendale so far
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarfrazh/15513839168/in/photostream
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Cough Bottom and Peers Clough
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Clough Bottom Teal 1m Lapwing 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Common Gull c60 B.H.Gull c15 Herring Gull 3 Mallard 1pair Cormorant 1 over L.T.Tit 2 Goldcrest 3 Robin 2 Chaffinch 6 Jay 2 Magpie 2 Windy Bank Stonechat 1 pair Bullfinch 1m 2f Cormorant 1 over Wren 2 Robin 2 Carrion Crow 4 Peers Clough G.S.Woodpecker 1 Greenf...
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pink footed geese 23/11/14
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skein of c50 pink footed geese heading westish over Rawtenstall at 3:30pm today cheers Kevin and Ian
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GRANE RESERVOIRS 21-11-2014
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Holden Wood top end with Sarfraz 1 Kestrel 1 Sparrowhawk Mixed group of Jackdaw and Gulls 1 Coot 2 Snipe popped out of reeds thinking there most be more in there but not seen Starling Flocks Flock one 250 up to 300 next flock 180 then small ones of 15/20 On the way up to Calf Hey 5 Reed Bunting 5 Carrion Crow S...
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Jack Lodge etc 20/11/14
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good number of finches at Jack Lodge included the followingmin 12 chaffinch1 brambling seen and another heardmin 20 goldfinchmin 8 greenfinch3 + 2 bullfinch also in same area1 moorhen2 stock dovemin 8 blackbird2 fieldfare1 redwingonly c20 starling also seen today1 pr goosander at Clough Bottom...
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Grane
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today 9.30-12.30 Holden Wood:- 2 grey herons 18 teal 1 sparrow hawk 1 kestrel approx. 100 starlings came in to feed 1 snipe 2 mallard on way back 6 cormorants in roost - cormorants down as a whole a few meadow pipit 4 wren 2 stonechat in sedges at top end - male and female 1 moorhen 1 coot 100 blac...
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