Chris Collis reported a wood warbler in Staghills Woods this morning in the area behind CDM Windows, roughly opposite the old Tnt building. He also a treecreeper in the Sandybank area of the woods.
Warth to Hareholme 1 juv cormorant over flying over, 2pr stock dove, 1 dipper carrying food, 3 willow warbler, 2 swallow, long tailed tits at 2 sites, 1 jay, & 1 backcap.
Groundwork 1m whitethroat, 3 willow warbler & 1 nearby alongside the train station at Rawtenstall. A Canada goose was seen flying over Rawtenstall in the company of a white goose of the same size. I couldn't tell if it was a leucitic or albino Canada goose or just a free flying domestic.
Holmes Terrace Lodge area 1 Canada goose, 3m mallard, 1pr goosander flying up the valley, 2 coot, 2 moorhen, 1 gre wagtail, 2 willow warbler, 1 blackcap, 1 long tailed tit & 1 dipper.
River Irwell Ewood Bridge 1 common sandpiper, 1 kingfisher, 1 dipper, 2 willow warbler, 1 sand martin, 1 swallow, 1 song thrush & 1m reed bunting.
EBSW 1f pheasant & 2 calling birds, 3 black headed gulls, 5 swallow, 2 house martin, 5 willow warbler, 1 chiffchaff, 4 blackcap & only 1 pied wagtail. Only birds on the beds were jackdaws & carrion crows.
Irwell Vale 5m mallard, 1female mallard with 2 nearly half grown young & 1 female mallard with 5 fairly recently fledged young. 1 dipper carrying food, 1 nuthatch, 3 blackcap, 2 willow warbler, 1 swift seen over Lumb Vale & 1pr bullfinch.
Irwell Vale to Stubbins 1f goosander flying upstream at Stubbins, 1 juv mistle thrush, 3 pied wagtail, 2 blackcap, 2 willow warbler, 1 chiffchaff & 1 great tit seen leaving a nest hole in a mill at Subbins.
Eden Wood to Bleakholt 1m kestrel, 1m blackcap, 3 willow warbler, 2 house martins, 2 swallow & 6 rook.
Fisherman's Retreat & Twine Valley Bottom 5 willow warbler, 1 song thrush, 1linnet & 1pr redpoll.
Harden Moor to Cheesden Bridge 1pr bar tailed godwits feeding in the field just off the the junction from the A680 & the road that is signposted for Rossendale School. 1 curlew, 9 lapwing, 1 skylark, 3 meadow pipit, c50 wood pigeon, 3 stock dove, 7 swallow, c100 mixed jackdaw, rook & carrion crow,1 willow warbler & 1 reed bunting.
Hi Kevin check out the Rochdale and G.M. forums. There were Bar Tails at Watergrove and Piethorn over the past two days. Good sighting. By the sounds of it, its the same field where we had the American Golden Plover and the Northerns all those years ago. I wouldn't be suprised if Dotterel use it. Good walk what happened on the way back? Bob.
I've seen the godwits on the Rochdale website. I just walked back to Edenfield and caught the bus home. I did contemplate going back over the tops but the old legs don't seem to have quite the same energy these days. By the way there seemed to be far more blackcaps around today.
