Holmes Terrace Lodge 1 little grebe, 3 herons, 60 mallard, minimum of 20 moorhen (my previous highest count here is 12), 20 black headed gulls overhead, 3 lesser black back gulls over, peregrine seen over Townsendfold, 60+ starlings over & 1 mixed flock including the following 2m bullfinch, 5 long tailed tits, 8 blue tits, 2 great tits & 5 chaffinch.
Holden Wood Res 1 heron, 1 or 2 cormorants over, 11 mallard, 22 black headed gull, 3 common gull over, 2 moorhen, 2 raven over, 1pr stonechat & 5 meadow pipit.
Calf Hey 1 kestrel, 1f green woodpecker, 1 redwing, 4 fieldfare, 2 mistle thrush, 1 jay & 2 bullfinch heard.
Clough Head 40 fieldfare seen flying towards Haslingden Moor & 7 siskin.
Troy Wood 4 lesser black gulls over, 2 great spotted woodpecker, 3 mistle thrush, 1 fieldfare & 1 raven over. Also had good numbers of finches coming in to roost with minimum counts of the following 20 chaffinch (probably at least twice this number), 15 siskin, 7 redpoll, 4+ brambling. Ian was in the area at the same time and he had at least 4 crossbill & 3 stonechat.
