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STICKY:
*** 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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STICKY:
*** 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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Deeply Vale
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Buckhurst to Deeply Vale only cormorant - 1 on Buckhurst Lodge & 1 on top lodge Canada goose - flocks of 15, 9 & 6 mallard - 3 drakes on Buckhurst Lodge, 13 on top lodge & 11 over teal - 2 drakes on top lodge moorhen - 2 on top lodge pheasant - 1 female buzzard - calling bird kestrel - female at Buckh...
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Clowbridge 17/11/25 8:30-9:30
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No people or dogs!!! 2 Raven 1 Buzzard 2 pair Stonechat (north and south bay) 58 Canadas 1 Barnacle goose 2 Cormorant 2 Pied Wagtail Limy Lane Greenfinch Reed Bunting Blackbird House Sparrows Goldfinch Chaffinch Bullfinch
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Overnight 15/16-11-25 Newchurch
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22:20 - 07:30 ~50 Redwing calls a few Fieldfare calls ~10 Snipe calls Dunlin (3:06) My software (Chirpity) identified Knot (3:47) and Turnstone (1:43), any thoughts? Green Woodpecker making a lot of noise this morning Cheers Ian
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Mitchell's House to Clowbridge Res 16/11
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Mitchell's House Resgrey heron - 1Canada goose - 4mallard - 1prblack-headed gull - 17common gull - 2lesser black-backed gull - 1herring gull - 11great black-backed gull - 12pheasant - male on Black Mosslapwing - 79buzzard - 1kestrel - 1stock dove 2pied wagtail - 1robin - 3blackbird - 4blue tit - 2gr...
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Deerplay Area 16 11 25
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Deerplay Area Lapwing 14 Starling c100 B H Gull 20 Mallard 4 Great Tit 2 Wren 1 Pied Wagtail 2 Magpie 4 Carroin Crow 2 Peter
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Rossendale Wildlife Thread 2025
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Friday 3rd January effects of the cold spell showing with 3 Blackbirds in the field near the boardwalk at Holden Wood Reservoir. 4 Goldeneye at Ogden Reservoir. 11 min Mallards at both reservoirs Sunday 5th January min 10 Blackbirds at Victoria Park, and a few Song Thrush maybe at least 4, and som...
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Greenfold Cloudy 10.10.25 10:30
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Canada Geese 40 Mallard 1 Common Gull 5 Herring Gull 7 Raven 1 Mistle Thrush 1 Stonechat 2
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Clowbridge 8°c Cloudy 10.10.25 09:00
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Mallard 20 Cormorant 4 Great Crested Grebe 1 Black Headed Gull c50 Woodpigeon 5 Starling 20 Blackbird 1 Redwing 12 going East Fieldfare c200 heading South West over Nutshaw Stonechat 2 Carrion Crow 5 Magpie 1 Raven 1 Goldfinch 5 Reed Bunting 1 House Sparrow c20
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Rawtenstall to EBSW 09/11/2025
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grey heron - singles at Rawtenstall, Groundwork & EBSWlittle egret - 1 downstream of the bypass bridgecormorant - 3 at Holmes Terrace Lodgemallard - 28 at Tesco, 8 near the bypass bridge & 20 around EBSW goosander - 3 at Tesco, 2 at Groundwork & 1 at EBSW. All redheadsmoorhen - 3 at Holmes...
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Whitworth 08/11/25
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Wallbank Lodge grey heron - 1 pink-footed goose - 112 flew west @ 10:43 mallard - 7 moorhen - 2 black-headed gull - 14 nuthatch - 1 Eastgate Woods great spotted woodpecker - 2 females dipper - 2 nuthatch - 1 greenfinch - 1 bullfinch - 1 Spring Mill Res cormorant - 1 on pylon Canada goose - just a single lapwin...
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Overnight 05/06-11-25 Newchurch
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Bonfire night! Around 500 Redwing calls mainly from midnight onwards 10+ Fieldfare calls 6 Snipe calls Pink feet at 21:30 Cheers Ian
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Clowbridge 3.11 cloudy breezy 12°c
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Mallard c100 Cormorant 5 Black Headed Gull c40 Common Gull 7 Lesser Black Back Gull 1 Jack Snipe 1 flushed by dog from North Bay reeds Meadow Pipit 3 Pied Wagtail 1 Dunnock 2, Wren 1, Great Tit 1, Mistle Thrush 1 Redwing 3 feeding on berries in car park c20 over North Bay Jackdaw 7 Cartoon Crow 2 Magpi...
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Shortclough res. 3/11/25
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Springfield Lane Clowbridge and Holden Wood Reservoir 2/11/2025
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Springfield Lane Clowbridge 35+ Fieldfare feeding on hawthorn berries 1 Wren 1 Kestrel 8 Carrion Crow 3 Magpie Holden Wood Reservoir 128 Mallard all feeding at top end 3 Moorhen running together along banking 14 Teal 8 Meadow Pipit 2 Stonechat m/f 3 Long-tailed Tit 2 Wren Cheers Craggy
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Warth to Cowpe Lowe 02/11/2025
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Warthgrey heron - 1 up the Irwell Valleymoorhen - 1 at Kenroy's pondwoodpigeon - 14kingfisher - 1 flew downstreamrobin - 9blackbird - 5redwing - c20fieldfare - min 215long-tailed tit - flocks of min 6 & 14coal tit - 1great tit - 1blue tit - 3wren - 8dunnock - 5magpie - 2carrion crow - 4jackdaw - c30c...
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Clowbridge and K Steels 2/11/25
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Clowbridge Wigeon 1f Mallard c50 Teal 3 Cormorant 4 Canada Geese 25 B H Gull 1 Common Gull 2 Herring Gull 5 Goldfinch good numbers Reed Bunting 2 Robin 2 Dunnock 1 Blackbird 1 K Steels G S W Pecker 1 L T Tit 8 Little Egret 1 near the motorway bridge Peter and John -- Edited by pfyldes on Sunday 2nd of Nove...
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Clough Bottom Res 01/11/2025
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grey heron - 1cormorant - 2mallard - 19teal - 2 drakesgoosander - 3 femalespheasant - malebuzzard - 1 harassed by a carrion crowkestrel - 1black-headed gull - 16common gull - 1herring gull - 4lesser black-backed gull - 4great spotted woodpecker - 1woodpigeon - 6meadow pipit - 3robin - 1stonechat - 1...
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Bridge Clough, 31st Oct 2025
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10:00-11:00 Cormorant, 1 on Jack lodge, Tufted Duck, 1 male on Jack Lodge, Goosander, 2 Redheads on Jack Lodge, Kestrel, 1 towards Fox Hill, Moorhen, 1 on Jack Lodge, Lapwing, a flock of 14 flew over towards Bacup, Meadow Pipit, 1 on Coal Pit Lane, Starling, flocks of c20 & c10, Carrion Crow, 4, Jac...
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Grain 30-10-25
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9:15-11:15 HWR Mallard 1 female Goosander 4 Teal BH Gulls 3 Moorhen 3 Cormorant 1 Kestrel 3 Stonechat ~100 Fieldfare over towards Musbury Ogden + Calf Hey Mallard 1 LBB Gull 3 Cormorant Clough Head 5+ Siskin Jamestone Quarry (west) 1 male Goldeneye Cheers Ian
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Waterfoot to Clowbridge Res 25/10/25
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Trickett's Memorial Groundgreat spotted woodpecker - 1nuthatch - 2blackbird - min 10long-tailed tit - min 20 Seat Naze/ Edge Cotepink-footed goose - skein of c75 seen heading north-east over Greenfoldbuzzard - 1snipe - min 165 jack snipe - 1black-headed gull - 1common gull - 3stock dove - 1meado...
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Clowbridge 11:00 cloudy 10°c
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Great Crested Grebe 1 Cormorant 4 Grey Heron 1 Canada Goose 24 Mallard c50 Teal 4 Goosander 3 rh Black Headed Gull c25 Woodpigeon 2 Meadow Pipit 4 Pied Wagtail 1 Stonechat 1 Mistle Thrush 2 Redwing c10 Magpie 2 Carrion Crow 2 Raven 1 Greenfinch 1 Goldfinch c50 Reed Bunting 2
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Reedsholme - Cribden Clough 22/10/25
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Park - Flock of 6+ Long-tailed Tit Leabrook 1 Dipper - singing upstream on return. 5 Mallard - 2pr + 1 male Cribden Clough 1 Grey Heron, stood off in field 1 Kestrel c/40 Starlings on the T.V. mast. c/25 Fieldfares in the big ash tree. c/40 Wood Pigeon in trees. 1 Buzzard on telegraph pole along Oakenhead W...
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Grane 22-20-25 9:30-11:30
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Rain Showers HWR 3 Moorhen 2 Common Gulls BH Gulls Mallards 1 Canada Goose 15 Teal 3 Cormorant 1 Dipper 1 Kingfisher 2 LLTit Moor edge path 1 Kestrel 1 Peregrine (flew down from moor over res then back again) 42 Pink Feet over Ogden 1 GBB Gull 3 Cormorant Cheers Ian
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Clowbridge 12° cloudy 09:00
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Cormorant 8 Grey Heron 1 Canada Goose 1 (one) Teal 6 Mallard 51 Kestrel 1 Black Headed Gull c25 Common Gull 3 Woodpigeon 2 Meadow Pipit 2 Dunnock 1 Song Thrush 1 Fieldfare 13 Goldcrest 5 Long Tailed Tit 6 Great Tit and Blue Tit good numbers Treecreeper 1 (car park) Magpie 10, Crow c20 Raven 1 over Chaffinc...
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Various 15/10/25
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Early morning - Cribden Clough 1 Kestrel Pr Raven on transmitter mast then off towards the ski slope. 5 Redwing through then 7 circling over later c/50 flock Fieldfare through to S.W. 2 Mistle Thrush on wires 5 Long-tailed Tit in scrub. c/30 Wood Pigeon to S. 1 Cormorant to W. 3 Blackbird and a Song Thrus...
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