I don't recall ever seeing a LSW but I am almost sure I saw one yesterday at the fishermans car park at Ogden, it landed in a flowering hawthorn and disappeared completely. It had the dipping flight pattern of a woodpecker and plenty of white on its back and was the size of a finch. It certainly was not a wagtail so I cannot think what else it could be. Has anyone else seen them on the Grane?
I have never heard of Kings Hillock Wood but if that is the conifer plantation on Ogden then that is a result........................a first for me in Rossendale or anywhere else for that matter. I shall pay more attention in future and confer with the man that sees all.
I had a lesser spotted woodpecker in one of the trees in front of my house, Haslingden near A56. Managed to take a rather poor photo before it flew off. First sighting I have had here in 18 years of being here.