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Little Egrets and Green Sandpipers Grane
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4 immature Little Egrets came arrived at Holden Wood - rested, had a bit of a hunt for food and then I saw them at Calf Hey when I arrived there. They flew back to Holden Wood. 3 Green Sandpipers with a smaller wader - Dunlin, Little Stint - videoed it but no photos at top end of Ogden visible from Calf Hey...
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AMR 8th Aug ‘18.
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3 - 4.30pm. Yellow-legged Gull. Prob adult in with the numerous -c200 L B B Gulls, 2 Herring Gulls, 2 G B B Gulls, 1 ad Common Gull and c30 B H Gulls. Pic taken with iPhone through scope at decent range! It later flew to big island where the yellow legs were seen. It later flew off north into Rossendale airspa...
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Willow Warbler movement.
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0700/0830 hrs this morning, cool 16 degrees, calm and overcast. Around the area of Porritt lodge and East view lodge an hour before dusk last night I had good numbers of Willow Warblers very active in low lying shrubs. I returned this morning around 0630 hrs and found only an odd one feeding, by 0730 hrs...
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Wood Sandpiper Calf Hey Reservoir
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1 Wood Sandpiper present with minimum 2 Green Sandpipers. It was being chased around by the Greens. No photos or video footage but seen this species plenty of times abroad. Has that beautifully spotted golden appearance with white underside. Yellow legs and slight eye stripe. Slender than the podg...
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Clowbridge Res 5th Aug 18.
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Circuit of res was rather dull. no waders, 30 Mallard, 1 G C Grebe, 20 Swallows, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Heron. Highlight again was in the ploughed field near Nutshaw Kennels as Lapwings numbered c100 and 3 Golden Plover and 2 ad Common Gulls were in with them.
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Little Egrets Grane
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4 little egrets Holden Wood this morning, c.8.00. Flew over Ogden Dam 8.15 and turned northish (lost behind trees). Not seen at any of the other waterbodies subsequently so presumably gone. Also present Holden Wood 10 goosanders over west, 55 lapwings and 3 oystercatchers (no other wader spp seen t...
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Clowbridge Res. 2nd Aug 18.
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1 Green Sandpiper touring the res late evening was a nice surprise. Other stuff- 2 G C Grebe, 30+ Mallard, 76 Lapwing on ploughed field then res, North Bay. Pics - Green Sand and some of the 76 Lapwings.
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Strongstry woods and river.
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After the rains of the weekend and the hot spell, this morning was 17 degrees, cloudy and calm. 0730 to 1130 hrs. Species of note.... On the river which has now dropped back to summer level.... Two groups of juvenile Goosanders 13/17 in different locations. Young Grey Heron. Four Dipper...all adult...
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Clowbridge Res. 30th July 18.
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Circuit of res produced no surprises.. - 1 LRP, 31 Mallard, 15 BH Gulls, 9 Swift, 20+ P Wagtails, 4 Linnet. Highlight being 52 Lapwing, 9 Stock Dove and numerous P Wagtails in freshly ploughed field adjacent to Nutshaw Kennels.
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Clowbridge, 28th July 2018
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09:00-10:00 Grey Heron, 1 on back pond, Canada Goose, 27 on the res, Mallard, c30 around the res, Sparrowhawk, female behind boat house, Kestrel, 2 singles over the moorland, Moorhen, pair on Limy now have 1 small chick, Lapwing, c50 in rough field just north of res, B.H.Gull, c40 either in rough fiel...
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Greenfold. 22nd July 18
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6 - 9pm.. Evening walk to look for Andy's Sedge Warb. Not disappointed as that Male was still there though very quiet but another pair was in another site so it looks like there's 2 pr up there! Even better was a beautiful Male Whinchat doing the rounds on the fence lines covering a big area tho and difficu...
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AMR 22nd July 18.
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9.30 - 12noon with R Archer (Rob there from 6am-11) then later P Gorton then Geoff Marg" +1. Adult, moulting out of SP, Black-tailed Godwit flew in early morning and was still present when I got there. It left to the north ( well into Rossendale airspace!! ) into the mist and murk but was back 10 mins later...
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Amr
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Bar - tailed Godwit (juvenile) present with lots of Snipe. Rob has the above Gotwit as Black-tailed, on GMC site,I will stand corrected, roughly same time but did not see Rob to discuss. Regards Brian. -- Edited by brian on Sunday 22nd of July 2018 10:19:30 AM -- Edited by brian on Sunday 22nd of July 201...
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Clowbridge, 22nd July 2018
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09:00-10:30 G.C.Grebe, 2 on res, Canada Goose, 8, Mallard, c20, Moorhen, 1 on Limy, Pheasant, 1 plus calling bird, Lapwing, c50 in rough field just north of res with many juvs present, L.B.B.Gull, c50 over, Little Owl, 1 on fence post, Swallow, c80 inc many juvs, Sand Martin, 1 through south, Meadow P...
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Greenfold sedge warbler
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Singing nr Greenfold Farm again this morning. Same location as last week so assume same bird (?). Also one grasshopper warbler Andy
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clough bottom
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flock of 16 curlews linnet 3 goldfinch 3 grey wagtail 1 Canada geese 30 lesser black backed gulls 300 common sandpiper kestrel
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AMR 21st July ‘18.
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7.15 - 9.50am. 1 Greenshank (poss 2), 1 Ad Dunlin, 1 Teal fem/imm, 11 Snipe, 15+ Lapwing, 5 Goosander fem/Imm, c 10 BH Gulls, very few big gulls coming in then leaving. Greenshank left mid morning high SW prob after hearing what I thought was another flying high overhead? -- Edited by C Bel on Saturday 2...
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Clowbridge res. 14/7/18
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4 B.H.Gull 7 Canada Goose 15+ Mallard 2 G.C.Grebe, 3 on 15/7/18 c25 Lapwing in fields, 29 on 15/7/18 1 ad + 1 juv Little ringed Plover 2 Common Sandpiper 15 Swallow mainly juvs 2 Grey Heron Constant passage of Lesser black backs to N.W. during evening. 1 Kestrel c12 Swift high overhead at dusk 15+ Pied Wag...
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Tree Pipit 14th July 18.
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1st return passage bird ?? calling and heading south over Clowbridge Res overflow area at c6.45am. Time for the nets..
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T/send Fold/ Irwell Sun 15th July 18.
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At least 6 holes in use with the Sand Martin colony. 2 Dipper, 1 G Wagtail.
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AMR Sunday 15th July 18
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7-10.30 am with A Young for last c30 mins. 10+ C Sand, 2 fg juv LRP, 1 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 5 Goosander juvs/fems, 9 BH Gulls, 30 max L B B Gulls with very few coming and going. c15 Lapwing. Looks good for a decent wader!!
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Lumb, 15th July 2018
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16:00-18:00 Dabchick, calling bird(s) on the square lodge towards Holcombe Road, Grey Heron, 3 on the lodge, Mallard, c8 on the lodge, Buzzard, soaring pair, Moorhen, well grown chick on the lodge, L.B.B.Gull, c20 over, Stock Dove, 1 flew in to drink from The Irwell, Swallow, c30, House Martin, 2,...
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Grane (Common Terns), 14th July 2018
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06:30-09:00 G.C.Grebe, 3 on Ogden and 3 on Calf Hey, Cormorant, 1 over north and 1 on Ogden, Grey Heron, 3 on Calf Hey & 1 on Ogden, Canada Goose, c120 on Holden Wood, Mallard, c20, Buzzard, soaring bird, Kestrel, 3 singles, Moorhen, 2 on Holden Wood, Oystercatcher, flock of 4 seen several times, La...
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Greenfold etc 10/7
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One sedge warbler singing next to Greenfold Farm and a grasshopper warbler reeling nearby. Clowbridge Res - 2 common sandpipers, 3 great-crested grebes and a peregrine over Andy
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Rossendale Birding Thread 2018 Part 1
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All my sightings will now be in this thread rather than separate UNLESS a major rarity occurs (on a local level) which will get it's own thread but do not hold your breath. January 2nd minimum of 30 Great Black-Backed Gulls flying over Haslingden about 5pm - quite dark. January 3rd 5 Snipe at Hol...
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Rawtenstall, 8th July 2018
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08:30-11:00 Dabchick, managed to see two on HTL but so sign of breeding as Andy's post, Grey Heron, 1 on HTL, Mallard, 18 on HTL, Buzzard, 1 over Limy Valley, Kestrel, 1 over Cribden, Moorhen, 2 well grown young in a nest plus adult on HTL, L.B.B.Gull, c50 over, Stock Dove, 1 near Twin Lodges, Collared Do...
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Marl Pits, 7th July 2018
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10:00-11:00 Peregrine, juvenile giving more than it got from a pair of Ravens, Collared Dove, 1 in Balladen Clough, Swift, c30 feeding over Chapel Hill, Skylark, 1 in song, Swallow, c12, House Martin, c6, Song Thrush, 1 in song, Blackcap, 1 in song, Jay, pair, Raven, pair being hassled by juv Peregri...
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Townsend Fold
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A few odds'n'sods from around Townsend Fold this week: Peregrine - pr screaming, 1 with food heading towards Hardmans chimney yesterday (6/7). I assume this is the regular pair making an early return to their winter quarters (?) although unable to age them without optics to hand Sand Martin - 15 hole...
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Clowbridge, 6th July 2018
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20:00-21:00 G.C.Grebe, 2, Grey Heron, 1, Canada Goose, 6, Mallard, c30 inc several well grown ducklings, Kestrel, 2 singles, Pheasant, calling bird, Moorhen, 1 on Limy, Common Sandpiper, at least 3, B.H.Gull, 4 around the res, L.B.B.Gull, c20 over, Swift, c20 scattered around grassland or high a...
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grey partridges 03/07/2018
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A lass I work with (Caroline Bell) showed me a video on her mobile of a family of at least 12 grey partridges crossing the road in front of her car on the road to the quarry above Tong Lane, Bacup today cheers Kevin
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