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CLOWBRIDGE(Limy Lane) 1st Oct 2011
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Vismig/Ringing 6.15 - 10am. Lots of movement to south from 6.30 and still coming - mainly mipits and chaffinch - at 10am. Impossible to count and mist net at the same time!! Birds over - M Pipit - 100`s! Large parties early then 3-6`s. Chaffinch - 100+ (20 ringed) steady 2-3`s. Crossbill - 6 in 1 flock...
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Around Rawtenstall, 1st Oct 2011
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Heron, 1 mobbed by c60 Jackdaws over Cloughfold Rec showed some nifty flightwork to "escape"! Kestrel, 1 hunting Chapel Hill, Sparrowhawk, 1 being mobbed by a corvid over Height End / Cribden, G.S.Woodpecker, 1 at Marl Pits, Swallow, a flock of 12 south down the Limy Valley, Chiffchaff,...
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calf hey 30 sept 2011
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from 3.30-4.45pm 30 plus mallard at least 4-5 teal at least 30 min b h gulls on the water many bathing with some common gulls flick of min 10 linnet around flock of 10 min goldfinch some drinking water
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Cowm Reservoir.1/10/2011
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3 Cormorant,22 Canada Geese, 40 Mallard, 4 Tufted Duck,Coot, 25 BH Gull, 2 Wood Pigeon, 4 Collared Dove, 25 Meadow Pipit (heading east),5 Pied Wagtail, 4 Dunnock,6 Robin, Stonechat(male), 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Blackbird, 2 Goldcrest, 5 Coal Tit,3 Blue Tit, Great Tit, 2 Jay, 6 Magpie,2 Rook,12 Carrion...
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Clowbridge (Limy Lane) 27th Sept 2011.
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A good morning with a decent movement of passage birds to south 8.30 - 11.30am. 600+ M Pipit. 200+ Swallow. 40+ Siskin. 30+ L Redpoll. 25+ Goldfinch. 10 Chaffinch. 3 Linnet. 4 R Bunting. 3 Wheatear, juv Cuckoo, 1 Hobby, 1 Buzzard and a fem Merlin all seen moving through.
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Feeding stations
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Two male Blackcaps feeding on meal worm this morning and again this evening, we also had a brief visit from a young Green woodpecker on Tuesday which was a first for the feeding station near the house.
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CLOWBRIDGE(Limy Lane) 29th Sept 2011.
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Had 1hr 10 mins sat watching proper between 9.50 - 11am. (Started way too late!) M Pipit - 10,14,2,3,1,4,3,3,5,5,10,3,4,5,12,4,1,2,3,5,2,10. = 111 all south. Chaffinch - 1,3,1,1,1,1,1,3,2,1,2. = 17 sth. Linnet - 8,6,7,2,2. = 25 sth. R Bunt. - 1 sth. B/Bird - 1 sth. Greenfinch - 8 sth. Siskin - 2,15...
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Cowm Reservoir.Saturday 24th September
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3 first winter Common Gulls, 20 BH Gull,Coot,4 Tufted Duck.5 LBB Gulls over. Regards, Dave Ousey.
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Strongstry woods and river
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Blue tit doing well Great tit plenty Coal tit seems to have recovered from a bad start Long tailed tit only one small flock of 8 Chaffinch numbers still increasing Goldfinch several small charms of 5/6 Greenfinch odd ones Bullfinch commonest finch many pairs and young Robin 20+ Wre...
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SparrowHawk-Haslingden area
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Sparrowhawk seen 19.9.11 in front garden, Haslingden near to A56. A Female swooped down to take a wood pigeon from the tree, one of a pair of wood pigeons we have had visit daily for the last 2 years. It took the pigeon to the ground and started to tear into into for several minutes until a passer by distu...
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Trickett's Memorial to EBSW 250911
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Trickett's Memorial 1 nuthatch + 1 song thrush Seat Naze 30 black headed gull, 1 common gull, 15 meadow pipit, 2 pied wagtail, 2 raven over, 1 flock of 40 carrion crow + 12 goldfinch Edge Cote 1 lapwing, 26 snipe, 1 sparrowhawk, 1 kestrel, 14 meadow pipit, 1 jay + goldcrests heard calling from the conif...
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Stacksteads 25.9.11.
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Elm Clough to Rooley Rd Wheatear 1 Meadow Pipit c100 going south Swallow 5 south Carrion Crow c40 Elm Clough Goldfinch c20 single flock Blackbird 1 Jackdaw 4 Rook 5 Carrion Crow c10 L.B.B.Gull 3 flying west Wood Pigeon 7 Swallow 3 Meadow Pipit c20 Stacksteads Rec Area Heron 1 over Wood Pigeon 3 Carrion C...
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75% certain it was a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
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I don't recall ever seeing a LSW but I am almost sure I saw one yesterday at the fishermans car park at Ogden, it landed in a flowering hawthorn and disappeared completely. It had the dipping flight pattern of a woodpecker and plenty of white on its back and was the size of a finch. It certainly was not a wa...
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Dog Nobbler
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Herring Gulls
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1 adult 1 prob 2nd year 1 unknown but of similar size heading over Haslingden at about 12.30pm Northwards
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allotment cowpe
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21/9/11 4 chiff chaff 21/9/11 river irwell new hall hey 3 redhead gooseander Dave
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Cowm Reservoir,Whitworth.18/9/2011
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3 Cormorant, 25 BH Gull.55 Mallard,2 Coot, 1 juvenile Moorhen,4 Tufted Duck, 5 Great Tit,3 Chaffinch, 2 Robin,Kestrel (for Steve Rush),3 Magpie,10 Jackdaw,10 Carrion Crow,2 Swallow. Regards, Dave Ousey.
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North Rossendale, 18th Sep 2011
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08:30-11:30
Canada Goose 53 on Clowbridge,
Mallard c30 on Clowbridge,
Teal 2 females on Clowbridge,
Tufted Duck 1 female on Clowbridge,
Goosander redhead on Clowbridge,
Kestrel 1 at Clough Bottom & 1 being mobbed by a Rook at Clowbridge!
Golden Plover 1 over Compstons east,
Skylark 3...
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Haslingden Moor 18 September 2011
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15 Snipe 1 Skylark 30+ Meadowpipit 1 Raven 2 Kestrels Carrioncrows Neil
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Clowbridge res. 16/9/11
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07:50 start 12 Swallow over dam wall + 11 moving S. c20 Meadow Pipit on res bank Flocks of c30 + 6 Goldfinch Flock of c50 Linnet 4 Pied Wagtail 1 Wheatear 1f Goosander 1 Jay in wood Compstons Cross Steady passage E. to S.E. from 09:20hrs for 1hr. 93 Swallow in 13 parties. Meadow Pipit, constant movement...
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Holden Wood 5 -6.15pm
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1 grey heron on bank, another seen flying later near the plantatiopn at ogden 20 approx lapwings with around 30 gulls mianly b h but at least 2 common gull 10 plus meadow pipit, 2 gold finch, 10 plus linnet sepnding a lot of time on bank, 10 plus flock of long tailed tits with some great and blue 2 ra...
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CLOWBRIDGE RES. 14th Sept.
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6 - 7.30pm. in the rain.. 2 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 18 Mallard, 20+ Swallow, 1 M Pipit, 1 L E Owl. Craig.
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Facit Incline-Cowm Res 12/09/11
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A very blustery walk indeed. Gusts reached 19mph in the valley and no doubt much higher on the tops. Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 30 Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula) 3 Great Cormorant (Eurasian) (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis/hanedae) 1 Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) 1 Common Wo...
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Ashworth Moor Res
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Grey Phalarope on the Res this morning from 1130 . Still present when I left 12.45. Sheltering mainly in low rocks close to shoreline below Owd Betts.. Rob Archer
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Cribden Clough 12/9/11
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12:00 hrs c100 mixed Swallows and House Martins feeding over fields min c70 Swallow. c80 Goldfinch flock c10 Greenfinch c5 Chaffinch 10 Wood Pigeon c6 Meadow Pipit Twin Lodges c30 Starling 5 Greenfinch 2 Meadow Pipit River Limy - Leabrook 1 Dipper 20 Mallard Reedsholme 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Kingfisher B...
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Holmes Terrace Lodge and Grane 11/09/11
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Holmes Terrace Lodge 1 heron, 2adult and 1 juv little grebe, 39 mallard, 1 tufted duck & 2 moorhen. 1 kingfisher, 1 grey wagtail and 1 dipper on the river. 1 chiffchaff singing nearby. Holden Wood Res (with Dave Nuttall) 1 heron, 18 Canada goose, circa 50 mallard, 100 black headed gull flew off...
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Cowm Res and Landgate 11.9.11
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Cowm Res Coot 2 Cormorant 2 Tufted Duck 5 B.H.Gull c30 Mallard c40 Bullfonch 1 Goldfinch 6 Redpoll 4over Carrion Crow party of 5 + c6 House Martin c20 Swallow c20 Meadow Pipit c10 Kestrel 1m Wood Pigeon c20 Landgate Wheatear 1 Goldfinch c20 single flock Linnet 9 + 4 Meadow Pipit c15 Swallow 5 House Martin...
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Crawshawbooth 11/9/11
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16:40hrs c50 Wood Pigeon - on farmland, Pinner area 6 L.B.B.Gull >S Flock of c40 Goldfinch feeding on thistles - Stoneholme c60 House Martins feeding over wood at Stoneholme with c20 Swallows 1 Heron in river - Stoneholme 1 Dipper on river- Stoneholme Flock of 9 Blackbirds feeding on rowan berrie...
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Cheesden Valley, 11th Sep 2011
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11:30-13:30 Mallard, c50 on Buckhurst and lower lodge, Sparrowhawk, female being mobbed by c60 swallows, Kestrel, 3 singles, Grey Partridge, a covey of 4 near cheesden bar lodge, Pheasant, 1 male, Skylark, 1 over calling, Swallow, c100, Sand Martin, 2 through south, Meadow Pipit, c20 south, Pied...
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David Nuttall
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Clough Bottom Res, 11th Sep 2011
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10:00-11:00 Kestrel, 1 hunting moor, L.B.B.Gull, adult and 1st winter bird on res for two minutes before flying off south, Skylark, 2 flew over south, Swallow, c20 south and 20 feeding around res, Sand Martin, flocks of 3 & 2 south, House Martin, 1 south, Meadow Pipit, c40 especially on eastern b...
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Clowbridge Res, 10th Sep 2011
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17:15-18:15
Canada Goose, 48 feeding on pasture,
Mallard,46 on res bank mainly,
Kestrel, male hunting moorland,
B.H.Gull, one touring the res,
Swallow, c15,
Meadow Pipit, c4,
Pied Wagtail, 2 family groups of 4 & 2,
Wheatear, single on dry stone wall at top end and one on fence behind b...
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