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Waterfoot to scrubbing Mills 15/10/11
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cormorant - 1 seen flying over Rawtenstall towards Grane common buzzard - 1 circling high over Waterfoot with a male sparrowhawk for company little owl - 1 in Hurdles Quarry green woodpecker - 1 heard yaffling in Staghills Woods and another or possibly the same bird seen in Hurdles Quarry skylark - 2 n...
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Stacksteads 15.10.11.
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Stacksteads. Fieldfare 15 Redwing 1 Blackbird 2 Jay 4 G.S.W.pecker 1 Greenfinch 6 Chaffinch 4 Goldfinch 4+10+1 Blue and Great tits pfyldes
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Redwings Friday 14 October
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A Flock of aprox 30 redwings flew into trees at back of my garden 18.15 hrs comeing in from northwest. Syke Side, Haslingden Neil
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Compstons Cross 14/10/11
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Start 08:30 - 10:00hrs all bird south. Dull, overcast. Noticable tailing off of birds at 10:20 onwards. Fieldfare - 50 Redwing - 315 Mixed Fieldfare/Redwing - 410 mostly Redwing Meadow Pipit - 12 Chaffinch - 39 Greenfinch - 5 Redpoll - 20 Goldfinch - 14 Starling - 4 Reed Bunting - still lots in the plant...
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fieldfare
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14/10/11 10-00am c150 Fieldfare Edgemoor Close Whitworth
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Lapwing
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13/10/11 2-30pm 90 Lapwing on factory roof on Knowsley Rd Haslingden 1 redhead Gooseander on river behind unit 5 New Hall Hey
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Herring Gulls Sunday 9 October
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12 large gulls passed over Haslingden in 2 groups between 11.00am-12pm - at least 4 were HG's, 1 was a LBBG....others unidentified but me thinks more likely HG
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Warth to Whittaker Pasture 091011
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1 heron, 1 kestrel, 1 sparrowhawk, 1 snipe, 1 green woodpecker, 12 meadow pipit, 1 dipper, flocks of 70 & 10 redwing flying down the valley, 7 mistle thrush, 11 blackbird in hawthorn hedge, 2 jay, flock of 18 chaffinch flying down the valley, flock of 10 green finch 2 house martins were still in Wat...
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Strongstry feeding stations
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Wet and windy !!! Blue tit 10+ Great tit 12+ Coal tit 5 Long tailed tit 7 [one flock] Goldfinch 7+ Greenfinch 8+ Chaffinch 5+ Bullfinch 10+ Robin 5/6 Nuthatch 5 Wren 1 Treecreeper 1 Dunnock 4 Blackcap [male] 1 Great spotted woodpecker 3 Jay 2 Collard dove 2 Woodpigeon...
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Various Sites 9.10.11.
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Compstons Cross Reed Bunting c20 Meadow Pipit 4+4 Windy Bank Meadow Pipit 4+4+6+6+3+1+1+3 Goldfinch c12 Reed Bunting 1 Robin 2 Clough Bottom Crossbill 10 Dave and Paul 8 Goldeneye 1m Tufted Duck 1m Cormorant 1 Magpie 2 Peers Clough Starling c100 L.B.B.Gull 15 over Carrion Crow c10 Jackdaw c10 Robi...
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Bits and Bobs
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Woodpigeon begging parents for food last week in memorial Gardens, at least 4 Pied Wagtails present, Robins singing, 1-2 Blackbirds.....very scarce since breeding period House Martins still visiting nest sites last week in haslingden but numbers have dropped last couple of days. Large flock of...
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Compstons Cross 2/10/11
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02/10/11. Very evident vis-mig, from 08:15 until 11:30 hrs. All moving south unless stated otherwise. Meadow Pipit - 328 - largest flock 30 birds heaviest movement up to 10:30hrs. Chaffinch - 109 Greenfinch - 11 Goldfinch - 2 Linnet - 59 Siskin - 92 Redpoll - 42 Pied Wagtail - 1 Mistle Thrush - 1 G.S.W....
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Waterfoot to Cowm 02/10/11
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Waterfoot 4 house martin & 1 chiffchaff Lench 1 sparrowhawk, 1 great spotted woodpecker, 4 house martin, 8 wood pigeon, 2 mistle thrush, 1 song thrush, 1 wren, mixed flock with minimum of 15 long tailed tit, 2 blue tit, 2 great tit, 2 coal tit and 2 goldcrest, 20 jackdaw, 3 carrion crow, 4 magpie, 2 go...
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Facit Incline, Whitworth (vis-mig) 02/10/2011
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Visible Migration, Whitworth, Manchester, GB-ENG Oct 2, 2011 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM Protocol: Stationary 27 species Weather. Overcast light W turning stronger and more SW Intermittent spots of rain ending in drizzle. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) 1 S Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus rid...
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clough bottom res
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small groups of crossbill mixed in with the very large flocks of siskin
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Northern Rossendale, 2nd Oct 2011.
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10:00-13:30 with a hours vismig with Bob n Archie from Compston's Cross. Pink Footed Goose, c40 over west, Canada Goose, 2 small flocks, Goldeneye, 2 on Clowbridge, Mallard, 8 on Clowbridge, Kestrel, c4 hunting moors, Snipe, 7 over south, G.S.Woodpecker, 1 over Compston's north, Swallow, a flock...
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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
(Preview)
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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sarfraz
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