Whinberry Wood, Lower Cloughfold    4 willow warbler, 1 chiffchaff, 2m blackcap, long tailed tit heard, 1pr coal tit, family of great tits & 2 bullfinch calling.

Groundwork & The Holme area   1 heron, 1pr coot, 1pr moorhen, all on the lodge. 3 willow warbler, 3 willow warbler, 1 whitethroat, 2 blackcap, 4 grey wagtail & 1 family of long tailed tits.

Ewood Bridge & Sewage Works along the Irwell    possibly 10 holes now either in use or still being excavated at the sand martin colony & a minimum of 12 birds flying over it.  8 black headed gull, c70 carrion crows, c30 jackdaws, 3 jay, 1 whitethroat, 7 willow warbler, 3 blackcap, 1 chiffchaff, c70 swallow, c25 house martin, 1 pheasant & only 1 pied wagtail.

Snig Hole& Bowl Alley   2 families of long tailed tit.

Helmshore Textile Museum to Holden Vale    1 family of long tailed tits, 8 willow warbler, 1 chiffchaff & 5m blackcap.

Holden Wood   1ad, 1juv heron, 1 cormorant, 29 Canada geese, 3m mallard, 5 lapwing, 1 pheasant, 3 moorhen, 1pr stonechat with 3 juvs, 1 sand martin, 8 swallows, 1 pied wagtail & 4 reed bunting. 

Ogden   1 pr Canada geese, 1 Common sandpiper, 1 kestrel, 1m & 1 juv stonechat near the dam wall & 1 pr near the derelict farm building

Calf Hey    1 curlew, 1pr oystercatcher, 4m & 1f mallard, 1m stonechat, 1 great spotted woodpecker, 1 jay, 1 pheasant, 9 willow warbler & 2m blackcap 

Clough Head  1 lapwing, 1pr stock dove & 3 willow warbler.

Troy Quarry area  1pr little grebe, 1pr Canada geese with 4 goslings & 6 other adults, 1 mallard, 1 moorhen, 10 lesser black back gulls over, 4 lapwing, 1 kestrel, 1 juv stonechat nearby & 1 linnet heard.

cheers Kevin