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*** Posting information about sensitive species ***
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Neil Burke has drawn my attention to a message on the Greater Manchester Bird Forum pointing out that there is an active group of egg-thieves operating from the Heywood area and that they trawl forums such as these to get clues as to the location of nests birds of prey etc. When posting on the Forum pleas...
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STICKY:
Spreadsheet for Rossendale Bird records
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If anyone is looking for a relatively simple way of storing their bird notes electronically, I've posted a sticky in the General Discussion section on this topic.
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STICKY:
*** REMINDER - Postings about sensitive species ***
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Just before the breeding season, it may be worth reminding users that, being a public forum, not everyone reading these messages will have the welfare of the birds at heart. Please take care not to put at risk the nest sites of sensitive species. Either make the description deliberately vague or do...
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*** PLEASE READ *** - New sighting entry facility
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Those of you who also use the East Lancashire forum will have seen an announcement about a new facility for entering birds records online via the ELOC website.
Tony Cooper of ELOC emailed me during December 2006 kindly inviting ROC to make use of this facility. Due to other pressure...
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STICKY:
Forum guidelines - PLEASE READ
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Welcome to the Rossendale Birds and Wildlife Forum
The forums within this site are provided for the purpose of recording sightings of the various groups within the Rossendale Borough boundary.
You do not have to register in order to use the forum simply for reading the existing messages.&...
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Rossendale Wildlife Thread 2026
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2 January walk around Grane and Quarries and highlights were approx 30 Mallard on Holden Wood and 5 Goldeneye on Calf hey 4 January visit to Holden Wood early morning 5 Snipe, 27 Lapwing in 3 different flocks including 9 on the breeding field, 1 Woodcock, 80 plus Fieldfare in hedge with sm...
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Holden Wood Reservoir & the Canada Geese complex
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A walk around Holden Wood just before dark c.1610 hours. Ian has already mentioned most of the birds here. I did not see any stonechat or meadow pipits, but I did see 1 pair of mallard on the water. Away from the reservoir in surrounding grassland fields were 4 parties of Canada geese, which when also sco...
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Grane 11/11/26
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11:00 - 13:30 Sunny HWR 2 Pair Stonechat 1 LBB Gull with BH Gulls 3 Buzzard 6 Cormorant 1 Kestrel 2 Teal 2 Meadow Pipits Ogden 1 Male Goldeneye 2 Heron Calf Hey House Nuthatch Tree Creeper Blue, Great & Coal Tits Deep Clough 2 Raven Cheers Ian
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Whitworth to Lee Quarry 08/11/26
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Wallbank Lodge 15 mallard & 20 black-headed gulls Eastgate Woods great spotted woodpecker 1, fieldfare c10, redwing c10, nuthatch 1, treecreeper 1, dipper 1pr, jay 1 Spring Mill Res cormorant 3, Canada goose 62, mallard 3, tufted duck male, black-headed gull c30, common gull min 3, pied wagta...
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Greenfold 6/11/26
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Late post for yesterday- Greenfold 76 Canada Goose on pasture. Flock of 88 Lapwing on pasture. 2 Snipe flushed Flock of 60/70 Starling Flock of 7 Meadow Pipit 1 Kestrel 2 Buzzard 19 B.H. Gull feeding nr. Folly Clough. Shortclough res. 3f Goosander 7 Coot 3 Moorhen 3 Blackbird. Bob.
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Newchurch
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13-14/10/26 98 Redwing calls
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Clowbridge 2.11.26 5°c mostly cloudy 08:15
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Cormorant 2 Mallard 23 Kestrel 1 Moorhen 1 (Limy Water) Black Headed Gull c20 Kingfisher 1 on Limy Water Meadow Pipit 2 Pied Wagtail 1 Wren 3 Dunnock 1 Stonechat 2 South bay Mistle Thrush 1 Fieldfare c150 over and c50 feeding beyond North bay Redwing c50 Goldcrest 1 Long Tail, Coal and Great Tit in g...
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Holden Wood 2/11/26
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14:00-14:30 1 Little Egret - flew off towards Ogden ~40 Meadow Pipits 9 Teal 8 Cormorant BH Gulls Canada Geese
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Clough Bottom 1 11 26
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Clough Bottom G W Pecker calling bird G S W Pecker 2 Stonechat 3 Goldcrest calling birds Bullfinch calling bird Robin 4 Wren 2 L T Tit c6 Blackbird 3 Raven 2 over Jackdaw c10 Carrion Crow c10 Magpie 2 Common Gull c12 B H Gull c15 Tufted Duck 1 m Teal 1 Goosander 1r Mallard 11 Peter and John
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Cribden Clough area 30/10/26
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Morning amble - Calling Nuthatch at Leabrook. Kestrel hunting over Laund Bank. Buzzard over Laund Bank + 1 on a pole at Cribden Clough Sparrowhawk sparring with magpies amongst scrub. 3 Redwing w/2 blackbirds in holly along Oakenhead Wood rd + flocks of 2, 12 & c/30 redwings at Cribden Clough lat...
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Greenfold 29/10/26
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40 Canada Goose 1f Goosander 2 Kestrel 1 Buzzard calling from a wall , possibly an abandoned juv. wanting to be fed,. Flock of c/40 Golden Plover circling then landed on cattle pasture. 5 Common Gull on sheep fields along with - Flock of c/200 Starling 9 Fieldfare 1 Redwing Pr Stonechat. 1 Raven over the...
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About 100 pink feet going west
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Crawshawbooth area 22/10/26
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Afternoon, after the rain, before a pint! Shortclough res. 4 Coot 1 Little Grebe 2f Goosander 1 Cormorant 4 Moorhen 1 Grey Heron 1f Wigeon 6 Rook Bonfire Hill Quarry area 2 Fieldfare on tree tops 1 Raven Bob.
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Clowbridge 21.10 8°c drizzle
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Cormorant 2 Mallard c40 Lapwing 6 Snipe 2 Common Gull 6 Black Headed Gull Raven 2 Carrion Crow 6 Jackdaw Magpie 2 Woodpigeon 4 Pied Wagtail 1 Linnet 11 Goldfinch C30 Redwing 10 heading east Meadow Pipit 1 Chaffinch 2 House Sparrow Starling 1 Blackbird 3 Robin 2 Great Tit 2 Wren 2
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Reedsholme 20/10/26
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Cribden Clough Tit flock inc. 6 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Blue Tit. 12+ Redwing in small groups. 4 Blackbird Carrion Crow with white wings along Oakenhead Wood rd. Reedsholme 1 Grey Heron over this morning. Displaying Raven joined by another bird. 5 Magpie 3 Redwing 1 Kestrel Lots of Wood Pigeon in Brookes'...
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Clowbridge Whoopers
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Thanks to Nigel and Steven
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Seat Naze/ Edge Cote 17/10/26
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sparrowhawk - femalesnipe - 98jack snipe - 1black-headed gull - 2skylark - min 3 calling birdsmeadow pipit - 4pied wagtail - 1mistle thrush - 1 over Hurst Lanelong-tailed tit - flock of at least 5coal tit - c5starling - c60jay - 1magpie - c16rook - 5 near sheep feeder off Hurst Laneraven - 4linnet - 9bul...
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Clough Bottom, 16th Oct 2026.
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10:00-11:00 Kestrel, 1 on pylon near Windy Bank, Lapwing, c146 with 26 on Swallow Shore and c120 towards Deerplay, Common Gull, 3 on the res, B.H. Gull, 6 on the res, Stock Dove, 1 on Swallow Shore, G.S. Woodpecker, 1 calling from roadside pines, Grey Wagtail, 1 at outflow, Mistle Thrush, 1 flew over re...
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HWR 14-10-26
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13:00-14:30 ~100 Jackdaws 50 Canada Geese 30 Black headed gulls 5 Cormorant 8 Mallard 3 Teal at least 5 Chiffchaff 2 Moorhen Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Long tailed tits 2 Kestrel 1 Sparrowhawk
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Whitworth to Lee Clough
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Wallbank Lodgemallard - 14coot - 1moorhen - 1black-headed gull - 7jay - calling bird Spring Mill ResCanada goose - 70lapwing - 3buzzard - 2black-headed gull - 3lesser black-backed gull - 1green woodpecker - 1skylark - 2 heading south & 2 other calling birdswoodpigeon - min 180pied wagtail - 7m...
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Greenfold 11/10/26
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Afternoon ramble 2 Kestrel 17 Canada Goose on pasture Flock of 5 Meadow Pipit with 8 Goldfinch Ravens around all afternoon max. count of 4 around sheep feeder. Flock of 20+ Golden Plover on the ground+ flock of 9 in fight later. 1 Stonechat Flock of c/70 Starling moving through. 1 Chiffchaff calling fr...
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Greenfold 6/10/26
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Afternoon stroll - 5 sightings of single Ravens moving around the area calling. 4 Snipe over from Swinshaw Moor direction. 8 Lapwing on pasture nr Greenfold Barn. 10 Canada Goose on pasture. 2 Buzzard on fence posts very close together + 1 over calling, which may have been one of those two. 1 Grey Heron...
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Clowbridge 6.10.26 10:00am 14°c cloud/mist
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Cormorant 5 Mallard 35 Goosander 2rh Buzzard 1 Snipe 15 South bay Black Headed Gull c50 Common Gull 4 Woodpigeon 2 House Martin 1 heading south Meadow Pipit 1 Pied Wagtail 3 Grey Wagtail 1 Wren 1 Dunnock 1 Robin 6 Blackbird 2 Goldcrest 1 Blue Tit 1 Great Tit 2 Magpie 2 Carrion Crow c10 Starling 15 Goldfin...
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Waterfoot to Cowpe Lowe 04/10/26
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grey heron - 1 on the Irwell in Waterfootcormorant - 1 flew down the Irwell valleymallard - c29 across Waterfoot & Warthgoosander - 2 redheads in Waterfootgolden plover - flocks of 17 & 39 on Cowpe Lowesnipe - 1 on Cowpe Lowekestrel - 1 near Scout Moor Quarryherring gull - 1 over Cloughfoldles...
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Clowbridge 01.10 8:30 11°c fine
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Cormorant 5 Grey Heron 1 Mallard C30 Goosander 5rh Lesser Black Back 1 Common Gull 6 Black Headed Gull 30 Raven 3 Rook 2 Carrion Crow c20 Jackdaw c20 Magpie 2 Kestrel 1 Pied Wagtail 1 Chiffchaff 1 in song Willow Warbler calling Chaffinch 3 Goldfinch c60 Linnet c30 Robin 2 Wren 2 Starling C30 House Sparr...
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