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Vismig - Haslingden Grane Stoney Rake - Fri Oct 31st 2008..
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0700hrs-1100hrsWind: N 10mph Movement W/NW unless stated otherwise.Starling day without doubt!! kept going steadily all morning, even at 1100hrs on leaving I had a party of 100 approx going through.. it was nice and steady with other thrushes to...Starling: 1520 (46 parties, best parties:100...
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Clowbridge Res. 31/10/08
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Clowbridge res. 15:00 - 16:20 approx. 5 Wigeon, 1 imm. m Goldeneye, 1 G.C.Grebe, 2 f Goosander, 2 Mallard, c15 Greenfinch, 1 pr Stonechat + 2 other females, c60 Starlings NNE into Burnley, c100 gull mainly Black Heads with 2+ Common. Peregrine present this morning. 2 Shelduck present 30/10/08 am....
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Vismig - Haslingden Grane (Stoney Rake) Thr Oct 30th 2008..
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Thursday, 30 October 2008Lots of bird movement W but at Cloudbase altitudes.... 0645hrs-0900hrs Wind: NE12mph and very cold.. Movement: W unless stated otherwise. Also got tip off yesterday evening and again early this morning by the radar people currently based at Skegness and from another con...
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Edge Cote, Marl Pits & Clowbridge 29/10/2008
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Edge Cote & Marl Pits 90+ pink footed geese over, 2 snipe, 1 pheasant, 1 great spotted woodpecker, 1 redwing, 2 fieldfare & 7 goldfinch. Clowbridge 3 mallard, 1 immature male goldeneye, 5f goosander, 30 black headed gull, 2 pied wagtail, 1 grey wagtail, 1pr stonechat near the saili...
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Vismig Haslingden Grane (Stoney Rake) Wed Oct 29th 2008
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0700hrs-0800hrsMovement: West unless stated otherwise.S 4mphThey where definately going for it this morning sadly mine came to a ubrupt end with rolling mist which before long had made up a pea soup.... came away at 0815 will do a bit of work and then go up again in a couple of hours.Fieldfare: 1140 (b...
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Cloughbottom
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2 Treecreepers Jay Coal Tits Goldcrests lots 50 Fieldfare 1 pair Stonechat 2 Sparrow hawks Lumb 26 Oct
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Cowpe, Stubbylee Moss & Spring Mill Res 26/10/08
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Lench 1 heron, 4 moorhen, 1 grey wagtail, 2 redwing, 3 mistle thrush, 1 jay, 50 jackdaw, 1 treecreeper & 15 chaffinch. Cragg Quarry 4 meadow pipit & 1 swallow flying south. Cowpe Res 1 sparrowhawk & 4 sky lark Stubbylee Moss 8 golden plover, 5 lapwing, 12 snipe & 8...
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Cowm and New Line
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Cowm Res Brent Goose 1 ? Goosander 1 redhead Tufted Duck 3 Mallard c30 B.H.Gull c30 Stonechat 2 Coal Tits several calling Dunnock 1 Blackbird 2 Carrion Crow c6 New Line Res Canada Geese 50+ Moorhen 4 Mallard c20 B.H.Gull 17 pfyldes johnh
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Feeding station visitor
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Woke up this morning to find male sparrowhawk perched on the feeding table in the back garden.
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AMR
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Bright cold evening,1700 hrs to dusk. canada geese 54 [on the water] goosander 28 [one imature male,rest female, still flying in after dark.] redwing 60+ [two groups flying north over scout moor] lapwing 42 [circling low over the water before roosting] black headed gull 23 [raft on water] meadow pi...
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Grane, 19th Oct 2008
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07:15 - 09:45, Cormorant, 2 singles over Ogden, Pink Footed Goose, 38 flew low west up the valley calling! Goosander, redhead on Calf Hey, Kestrel, 1 on Haslingden Moor, Snipe, 3 on Haslingden Moor, B.H. Gull, c10 on Calf Hey, Kingfisher, 1 on Holden Wood, G.S. Woodpecker, singles calling from Cloug...
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Irwall Vale to Strongstry, Sunday 19 OCT 2008
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1 Cormorant 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Bullfinch calling 1 Gouldcrest 1 Male Goosander Best Wishes Neil
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Vismig - Haslingden Grane (Stoney Rake) Sun Oct 19th 2008...
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0700hrs-1000hrsWind: SSW 8mphAll movement West unless specified...Back to a harsh reality!!! Throughout count it was foggy and at times completely fogged out and always murky especially on the horizon, raining, at times sheeting it down. Not a good weather vis day, but by 1000hrs on leaving it d...
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GOLDENEYE
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Two male[eclipse] goldeneye on clough bottom at 1400 hrs plus one female goosander.
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Whitworth 18/10/08
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07:15 - 08:30 2 Parties of Redwing each party having about 50-60 birds in each flying East to West toward Cowm res. Small numbers of Redwing and singles totalling over 100 flying in diffrent directions also this morning. Small parties of Fieldfare totalling about 30 birds mainly flying East and Nort...
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holcombe moor/bull hill
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Bright and sunny[honest] 0800 hrs. Cant beat Birder bryan vismig but~~~ Five parties of redwing 20+, 1 party fieldfare15+, 2 raven, 100+ starling, 20+ lapwing, many rook,crow,jackdaw,and wood pigeon plus 1 stonechat, 7 meadow pipit and 5 pied wagtails. -- Edited by brian at 12:42, 2008-10-18
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Vismig - Haslingden Grane (Stoney Rake) Sat Oct 18th 2008... brilliant!!!! Over 7000 Thrushes in 3 hours.
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0700hrs - 1030hrsWind: SW5mph then freshening to W/SW 8-10mph by 0900hrs...Movement: all North West unless stated otherwise.Brilliant morning right from the word go (at 0724hrs) with Redwing coming in all directions from 50ft down to almost ground level, the majority only 20ft down and at one t...
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redwings and fieldfares 18/10/08
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Gaghills 10 redwings seen yesterday evening. Today 15 flocks of redwings passed over between 7:35 & 08:05 totalling 422 birds. 9 fieldfares also flew over. Lench 5 flocks of redwings seen around 08:10 totalling 94 birds. New Line 2 redwings over & 60 fieldfare seen fly...
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Wildfowl Count 18/19 October
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I'm afraid the Wildfowl Count has coincided once again with my weekend working. If anyone visits the Grane reservoirs today or tomorrow, could they post their sightings here so that they can form the basis of the Wildfowl Count? Many thanks. Hoping to see everyone at the meeting on Monday.
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Vismig: Haslingden Grane (Stoney Rake) Fri Oct 17th 2008
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Wind O - variable..Movement W unless specified.0715hrs -1030hrs.Foggy in and out but generally clear...Redwing: 565 (20 plus parties average parties 20/30 best party 60 really quieted off by 1000hrs.Starling: 9Chaffinch: 63 (best party 8)Cormorant: 1BHG: 50W but 30W (these 30 were definatel...
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Cowm Reservoir,Whitworth.14/10/08
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Despite the heavy rain, birds seen:- 40 BH Gull,3 Common Gull,36 Mallard,2 Jays, 2 Magpies,1 Kingfisher,1 Chaffinch.No sign of "resident" Cormorant. Kingfisher again seen in heavy rain with no disturbance from dogwalkers(except me) Has anyone any thoughts on there having been an in...
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Vismig - Stoney Rake, Haslingden Grane...
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I was tipped off yesterday by one of the vismig group currently spending some time watching at Spurn, that they had over 6000 redwing between 1245hrs and 1600hrs yesterday... Went up to Haslingden Top O'th Slate for first hour but very little doing, certainly no Thrushes. So at 0800hrs went up to H...
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New Line
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New Line Canada Geese 120 in field above res.
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Huttock Top update
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15 Sep 1 flock of 10 and a flock of 60 Twite
16 Sep 1 flock of 10 and a flock of 30 Twite
23 Sep +29 Sep flocks of 13 Twite
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Vismig - Haslingden Top O'th Slate - Tues Oct 14th 2008..
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Last 2 or 3 days no count because of thick fogs etc. Today just managed one hour before thick fog yet again came rolling in and stopped play.
0700-0800hrs.
Movement South unless stated.
Wind: South 5mph.
My first brambling of Autumn - no Thruses yet!
Meadow Pipit: 46 (plus 10 blogging),
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Cowm and New Line
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Cowm Res
Cormorant 1
B.H.Gull c50
Common Gull 2
Mallard c40
Tufted Duck 3
Grey Heron 1
Kestrel 2
Stonechat 1
Meadow Pipit c15
Goldcrest 2
Carrion Crow c6
Magpie c6
Woodpigeon 1
Great and Blue Tits c6
Chaffinch 1 calling
New Line Res
Canada Geese c30
Mallard c30
B.H.Gull c30
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Trickett's Memorial to AMR 12/10/08
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Trickett's Memorial Park 1 great spotted woodpecker, 3 song thrush, 12 long tailed tit & 2 treecreeper. Seat Naze 1 sparrowhawk, 3 sky lark, 20 meadow pipit, 2 pied wagtail, 1 raven over towards Cowpe Lowe, 14 goldfinch & 1 linnet. Edge Cote 2 grey heron, 29 snipe, 14 lesser b...
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Haslingden grane, sunday 12 Oct 2008 10.00hr_1200hr
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1 male Ring Ousel on the edge of Bordman close, it then flew down in to Grane
2 Snipe on Bentley moss
2 Skylark , Bently moss
plenty of Meadow pipit
Best wishes Neil
The 10-15 Blackbirds seen from the backgarden yesterday with Birderbryan , none seen today -- Edited by Neil Burke at 15:38, 2008-10-1...
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Vismig from Neils back garden today 1pm to 3pm approx....
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Swallow: 3 (Neil had a single before I arrived and then another pair came along) Meadow Pipit: 2 plus Neil had approx 40 before I got there. Greenfinch: Several presumed local.. Chaffinch: Several presumed local.. Mistle Thrush: 1 Blackbirds: Probably 10-15 a certain local increase indicating mi...
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Redwings 10/10/08
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Hurst Lane & Chapel Hill area Just a single Redwing feeding on haws late morning as the cloud was clearing but four were present this afternoon in same area. There was a notable increase in Blackbird numbers along the hedges with c10 in one area along with c4 Song Thrush and a single Mistle Thrush....
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