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Haslingden Grane 12th Aug
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Arrived to do the Wildfowl Count but torrential rain put us off. Does anyone have any sightings for Grane reservoirs over last couple of days?
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More Twite
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7 more birds have joined the flock at Brandwood making the total 13 bye for now
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johnh
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Cowpe
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Family party of Spotted flycatcher 4or5 Lench Waterfoot 12 Aug
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LEA MILL QUARRY
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11/8/07 2 RAVEN 2 CROWS 4 WHEATEAR SEVERAL MEADOW PIPIT C15 SWIFTS OVER HEADED TOWARDS WHITWORTH 1 PEREGRINE DAVE HOWORTH, PETE FYLDES AND PAUL HAYHURST
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Seat Naze to Grane 12/08/07
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Seat Naze/ Edge Cote 1 kestrel, 23 lesser black backed gulls over, 22 wood pigeon, 1 green woodpecker, 1 great spotted woodpecker, 2 skylark, 2 swift, 15 swallow, 14 house martin, 5 linnet, 1 flock 18 greenfinch & 23 bullfinch. Groundwork to Ewood Bridge 37 mallard, 2 moorhen, 1 common s...
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Cowm Reservoir 12th August
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From Peter Fyldes, John Hallsworth, Dave Howorth: 5 Heron, 3 Tufted Duck, c40 Mallard, c15 Black-headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 2 juv Grey Wagtails, c6 Willow Warbler, 2 juv Stonechat, 1 Wheatear, 1f Reed Bunting, Meadow Pipits, c10 Swallws plus 1 Green Woodpecker calling from Beech wood at top end.
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Twite
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Flock of 6 Twite Brandwood Stacksteads
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Twite
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Flock of 30 Twite 6Greenfinch 6Goldfinch Bacup 11 Aug
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Twite
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Flock of 10 Twite Little Owl Green Quarrys Quarry
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Whinchat - Larkhill Farm, Nr Farmers Glory 9th Aug 2007
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Watching Whinchat for over one hour flying on and off local posting. Can't as yet establish whether breeding local or whether its on movement. I suspect movement, although the owner of the farm will now keep a look out over the next few days. By the way its at the same site where the albino wagtail has b...
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Sandking
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Common sandpiper Kingfisher Near K Steels Rawtenstall
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Twite
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Waterfoot 8/8/07
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Behind Gemini Dispersions 7-00pm 5 heron 1 jay c50 crows c15 wood pigeons 1 sparrow hawk being mobbed by 2 magpies 6 swallows 1 dipper Dave & Lynn Howorth
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granne tuesday 4-7pm
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holden wood - 1 heron, 10 mallard, meadow pipits, 1 linnet, 43 canada geese slopes near ogden along rossendale way - gold finch, and maybe 2 ravens - not get to close, meadow pipits, clough head res. - approx 10 black headed gulls, jay in woods next to it, 2 more jays seen off grane road afte turn...
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Clough Bottom 12:00 07/08/07
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Cool breeze, 'sunny intervals' 2 Teal (eclipse) 2 Mallard (eclipse) 1+2Juv Pied Wagtails 4 Spotted Flycatcher Coat Tits, Goldcrests, Song Thrush, Jay, Wrens, Chaffinchs, Goldfinchs, heard GS Woodpecker. No dogs!! Cheers Ian
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holden wood 7.30pm sundau 5 aug
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1 grey heron 4 lawpings - lapwings seem to have been absent for 2 months approx 43 canada geese 20 or 24 mallard min - 4 may have been counted twice. heard 2 moorhen - could have been same bird well over 50 - martins, swallows swifts 1 tone chats, 2 meadow pipits woodpigeons, carrion crows, wren one de...
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Whitworth 05/08/07
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Peregrine flying low and remaining in area for 10mins making circular flights around area. A party of 4 Lesser Redpolls (3 Juveniles) are visiting feeders. Lots of flying insects in evidence with many birds fly catching inc Starlings x 10 House Martin x 40 Swallow x 10 Swift x 5 Black Headed Gull x 1 ( mo...
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Edenwood Lodge 5/8/07
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2 Willow Warblers (singing) 7 Moorhens (still 6 young) 8 House Martins Family party of 5 Greenfinches, including 1 very pale, ? lucistic bird.
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Grane, 05/08/07
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Cormorant, 1 on Calf Hey, Moorhen, 3, Canada Goose, c24, Grey Partridge, 1 calling Pheasant, 1, Kestrel, c8 in 3's, 2'1 & 1's, Wood Pigeon, c40, Willow Warbler, c8 a few still singing. Green Woodpecker,1, G.S.Woodpecker, 3, Swallow c80, Swift, c6, Stonechat, c12 in 3's, 2's & 1's, Wheatear...
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GULLS
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5 Graeter blackbacked gulls flying over Cloughbottem
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Oakenheadwood Rd.
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Oakenheadwood Rd - between Cribden Clough and Jolly Barn Cott. 19:15 - 21:00 hrs. L.B.B.Gull passage all evening from over Horncliffe presumably from A.M.R. west towards Grane, total numbers well in excess of 500 birds. Birds were moving low over Road End though very much higher over the Ewood Bri...
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holden wood mon 6.45 pm
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2 grey herons, 1 moorhen, 60 black headed gulls - with not a black head in site, aprox 26 canada geese, approx 20 mallards of which there must have been about 12 young, 1 female still there with 6 young, other young more or less sub-adult, some drakes - but there colour looks faded - is that because they a...
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A.M.R. 30-7-07
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1 MALE COMMON SCOTER 1 HERON 1 WHEATEAR C6 PIED WAGTAILS 3 CURLEW C50 LESSER BLACK BACKED GULLS 1 COMMON GULL C50 BLACK HEADED GULLS 1 OYSTERCATCHER 15 CANADA GEESE & 3 YOUNG 1 FEMALE GOOSEANDER DAVE HOWORTH & PETE FYLDES
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warth to cowpe 29/07/07
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Warth/ Higher Lench 1 juv sparrowhawk, 2 stock doves, 1 green woodpecker & 1 great spotted woodpecker. Hurdles Quarry to Cragg Quarry 2 Canada geese, 2 juv kestrels, 2 or 3 stock dove, 2 raven, 14 wheatear, 40 meadow pipit, 2 skylark, 3 pied wagtail & 4 linnet. Cowpe Res &a...
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Edenwood 29/7/07
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Not much about, just the usual finches and tits. No sign of any Warblers. However the Moorhen count is now:- 2 Adult 1 well grown Juv 6 one to two weeks old. Ina (Just back from Bulgaria, and D... glad to be!!!)
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Holcombe Moor Training Camp 29th Jul
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Looking mainly for Dragonflies but: c6 Swallows feeding over Paddy's Pond, 3 Ravens over upper end of valley, Cuckoo - juv bird near to Krypton Factor course, Jay (2), Grasshopper Warbler reeling near to rifle range.
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Cowm Res - 29th July
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Report from Peter Fyldes, Dave Howorth and John Hallsworth: Sedge Warbler (1), Willow Warbler, Redpoll (fam party of 1 ad + 4-5 juv), Wren (3, 1 seemed to be collecting nest material), Goldfinch (6), Pied Wagtail (c30), Jackdaw (12), Heron (3), Tufted Duck (6), Mallard (c40), Swallow (c50), House M...
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Grane, 29/07/07
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Moorhen, pair, Canada Goose, c24, Kestrel, pair, L.B.B.Gull, c12 west, B.H.Gull, 1 Calf Hey, G.S.Woodpecker sev singles + pair at Calf Hey, Meadow Pipit c 20, Skylark, 3, Goldcrest, sev family parties, Stonechat, sev family paties, Starling, flock of c 30, Willow Warbler, several birds in weak so...
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David Nuttall
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Ravens above
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Three ravens flew west over Ogden this afternoon, not much else except for a pair of common sandpipers and a heron.
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Limy Valley 26/7/07
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Shortclough to Chapel Hill via Edge End Lane 19:00hrs onwards. Excellent numbers of House Martins feeding over the brow of the hill at all elevations definatley in excess of 100 birds all the way along the lane. Also in excess of 30 Swifts but very few Swallows (c6) though c30 were feeding around li...
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