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Clowbridge Res
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Clowbridge Res. 13;00 - 15;30hrs Weather - terrible species seen - 1 G.C.Grebe, 3 Goldeneye, 3 Mallard, 1 m Goosander in flight, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Pied Wagtail and 1 Woodcock. c40 gulls present mostly Black Heads with 8 Commons. In addition a Dipper was on the R.Limy at Loveclough. Regards - Bob.
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Staghills Woods, Edgecote, Cowpe Lowe etc 28/01/07
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Staghills Woods/Tricket's Memmorial Ground: 1 jay, 1 great spotted woodpecker, 20 redwing. Marl Pits: 5 meadow pipit, 100 starling, 4 redwing, 1 bullfinch calling. Edgecote: 1 woodcock, 15 snipe, 1 skylark, c40 redwing, 5 fieldfare. Chapel Hill: 1 grey heron, 1 cormorant over, 5 lesser blac...
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R.O.C Winter Birdrace 2007 21/01/07
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The R.O.C winter birdrace took place today with eight participents making up three teams. We started at 08:00 and finished at 15:00 and the results were as follows: Team A = 43 birds. Team B = 50 birds. Team C = 52 birds. Altogether we saw 59 different species the highlights of which were male Hen Harr...
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Holden Wood res - Sunday 21 Jan 07
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Went down about 3.45 pm - just after it finished snowing 12-14 mallards, 1 rest crested grebe, 4 resting/roosting cormorants joined by another 3 from elsewhere - totalling 7, approx 40-50 lapwings, grey heron in the fields, 1 kestrel, heard a pheasant and moorhen, -- Edited by JimOrmerod...
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Holden Wood and Grane 21st Jan 07
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a party of at least 50 Rooks over Grane, in the fields around where the 2 parking lay bys are.....they crossed the road to clough head ..the large party was obviously on a "crawl" of some sort... on holden wood at about 4pm - 5 mallards, 4 cormorants roosting in a tree on the bank of the...
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Holmes Terrace Lodge and AMR etc 19/01/07
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Holmes Terrace Lodge 14:00: 5 grey heron, 72 mallard, 4 moorhen, 1 coot, 11 black headed gull, 3 great black backed gull flew over towards Ashworth Moor Res, 6 long tailed tit. 62 lapwings were seen flying over the Road End area of Haslingden. Turn Village 14:50: 2 mistle thrush, 2 fieldf...
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Stonechat - male at Laund Hey
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Nearly forgot - had a Stonechat male on the walls near Laund Hey yesterday afternoon (Tuesday) at approx 1345hrs. I had seen a pair several times during the vismig counts which seemed to be hanging about, and it maybe possible that they are now over wintering there also!
I noticed on th...
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Pink Feet 15/01/07
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Whitworth 13:20
100 Pink feet flew over in two skeins. Flying west over toward Cowm Res
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Edge Cote; Haslingden Grane etc 14/01/2007
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Newchurch 09:45: 1 cormorant flying towards Clough Bottom or Clowbridge. 1 great spotted woodpecker drumming in the grounds of Ashlands Nursing Home on Turn Pike.
Edge Cote 10:30: 1 grey heron, 23 snipe, c40 black headed gull, c40 common gull, flocks of 30,14 &46 wood pigeon flying south wes...
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Limy Valley
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14/01/07 13:00 hrs - Fine ,bright
Shortclough Res. - 8 Goosander, 8 Mallard and 1 Cormorant.
Clowbridge Res. - 1 Cormorant, 4 Goldeneye, 4 G.C.Grebe (report of 6 this am), 2 + 1 Stonechat, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Canada Goose, 1 Peregrine flew S. Min. of 300 B.H. and Common Gulls at 16:00 hrs.
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Woodpigeons on the move again
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Again just by chance I noticed and counted over 400 Woodpigeon on the move again this morning (approx 0900-0930hrs), in groups of 60,40,40,14,60,90,30,10,50,30,30,13. All going from South to North mainly high above Kings Causeway (behind Ross Gen Hosp) and Whittaker Park. This wa...
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Irwell Valley 10/1/2007
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Warth 11:00: 1 grey heron, 70 jackdaw, 6 blackbird, 2 redwing, 3 long tailed tit.
Rawtenstall 11:40: 1 male goosander over, 65 mallard, 50 jackdaw.
Holmes Terrace Lodge 12:10: 6 grey heron, 63 Mallard, 1 female tufted duck, 2 moorhen, 1 great spotted woodpecker.
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Haslingden Grane & Holmes Terrace Lodge 07/01/07
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This is my first time recording my sightings so here goes:
Date: 07/01/06 Conditions: Weak sunshine giving way to cloud later Wind: SW Temp: 7c
08:45 -09:15 Holden Wood Reservoir 1 Great Crested Grebe 5 pr. Mallard 10 Black Headed Gull 2 Woodpigeon 1 Robin 09:20 - 10:30 Calf Hey Reservoir 1 Pheasa...
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Warth, Cowpe Lowe, AMR. etc 07/01/2007
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Gaghills 09:00: 2pr bullfinch, 1 cormorant flying over towards Clowbridge or Clough Bottom.
Warth 09:45: 1 green woodpecker yaffling, 2 jay, min 60 fieldfare (possibly twice this number), min 60 redwing (possibly twice this number), 2 mistle thrush, 11 blackbird, 1 long tailed tit, 1m bullfin...
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EDGECOTE
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7/1/07 9.30AM
2 PAIR BULLFINCH, 3 FIELDFARE, 3 LONG TAILED TIT, 6 GREAT TIT, 3 BLUE TIT, 3 COLLARED DOVE, c40 STARLING, 4 WOODPIGEON, 6 MAGPIE, 1 CROW, 1 DUNNOCK,1 ROBIN
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Heap Clough (SD765232) 7th Jan 10:30-11:30
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Pair Stonechat on Rossendale Way, pair Raven flying around, Falcon with jesses over moor (could not see anyone), ~40 Woodpigeon flying towards Blackburn, 12 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush - 1 singing, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Wren, few Blackbirds.
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Bull Hill / Wet Moss 07/01/07
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Redwing c 20, Brambling c 12 in Buckden Clough, Chaffinch c 12 in Buckden Clough, Lapwing 6 on summit of Bull Hill, Jack Snipe 1 , Common Snipe 7, Golden Plover 2 all on Wet Moss, Raven pair flew over calling with one bird tumbling!
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Woodpigeons on the move
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Just a "by chance" watch from the backgarden this morning. I saw one party of approx 150 (0900hrs approx) followed by a party of approx 30/40 (0910hrs approx) - Woodpigeon all heading from North to SW, they seem to head towards the Haslingden Grane area and possibly beyond.
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Calf Hey Res 06/01/07
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Coal Tit c 6, Goldcrest c 4, Grey Wagtail 1, Fieldfare c 120, Chaffinch c 12, Siskin c 25.
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Retrospective 2005/6
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2005 - Oystercatcher nested successfully on the Buckhurst side of Whitewall farm. I saw them with juveniles on my second BBS visit. Didn't see them 2006
About May 2005 saw a pair of Little Ringed Plovers mating near the 'pond' just north of Pinfold close to Harden Moor.
2006
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Gaghils and IrwellValley 01/01/07
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birds at our feeders at Gaghills today have included:
1m,1f great spotted woodpecker,22 goldfinch, 15 chaffinch, 1 brambling, 15 greenfinch, 2m, 1f bullfinch, 8 collared dove (at least 17 have been roosting in the area). 1 cormorant flew over towards Rawtenstall.
Staghills Woods
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All Saint's Pond 01/01/07
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Goosander 7 fishing, 5 of which were males.
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Chapel Hill, 01/01/07
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Heron 1, Cormorant 2 flew up the Irwell Valley, Little Owl 1, Fieldfare c 20, Redwing c 12, Song Thrush 1, L.T.Tit 4, Blue & Great Tits in good numbers and very vocal, Goldfinch 4.
Happy New Year to all!
David Nuttall
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Clowbridge Res
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Clowbridge res. 31/12/06 13:30pm ish.
2F Goldeneye and 2 G.C. Grebe on the water, 1 Common Gull and c4 B.H.Gull + c100 B.H.Gull over Goodshaw. Very windy and very wet, hence only a short visit.
Shortclough res. 1M Goosander, 1 Heron, and 2 Mallard. c8 Goldfinch with small numbers of Greenf...
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Clowbridge 31/12/06
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Goldeneye 1, Goosander 1, B.H.Gull c 200, Common Gull c 20, Lapwing c 70 on pasture near the Waggoner's, Fieldfare c 60 flew East and then c 200 dropped into the conifers by the large house (The Kestrels?) next to the kennels at approx.16:30.
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Holden Wood + EBSW 31-12-2006 13:30-
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1 Heron, ~50 Black Headed Gulls, 8+2 Woodpigeon, 1 Jay, 8 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 1m Kestrel, 1f Goldeneye, 2 Cormorants, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Great Crested Grebe, Robin singing by car park, 1 Great Tit.
EBSW ~200 Jackdaws, ~15 Pied Wagtails
All the best to everyone for the New Year
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In the back garden
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http://www.digitalartgallery.co.uk/01inthegarden.htm
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Whitworth 31/12/06
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Cowm Res. Cormorant 1, G.C.Grebe 1, Tufted Duck 1 male, Mallard c 30, Canada Goose 2, B.H.Gull c 40, Common Gull 4, Kestrel 1.
Wallbank Lodge, Kingfisher 1, L.T.Tit c 6.
Spring Mill Res, G.C.Grebe 1, Tufted Duck 1 male, Kestrel 1.
Healey Dell, Green Woodpecker 1 calling frequently, L.T.Tit c 6,...
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Gaghills, Cowpe, Spring Mill and Cowm 29th Dec
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Gaghills 08:30 to 10:30
great spotted woodpecker 1m, greenfinch 40, goldfinch 21, chaffinch 20, bullfinch 3f 2m. A dunnock was singing yesterday.
Lench
1 grey heron, 1 sparrowhawk, 8 redwing, 10 fieldfare, 7 blackbird, 1 mistle thrush.
Cowpe Res and surrounding area
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North Rossendale 29/12/06
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Shortclough Res. Cormorant 1, Goosander 2, B.H.Gull 28, Common Gull 3, Goldfinch 7.
Clowbridge Res. G.C.Grebe 1, Goldeneye 2, Canada Goose 1, Peregrine 1.
Clough Bottom Res. B.H.Gull 7, Common Gull 4, Fieldfare c20.
Jack Lodge. Mallard 13, Heron 1, Pied Wagtail 1, Goldfinch 1.
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