Below are lists for each of the twelve 10km squares in the BTO Lancashire East Region, showing the species recorded in the 8 immediately surrounding 10km squares but not in the named square. Please use these lists as a guide to species that may be present in the 10km square but not yet recorded. Each list starts with those most widespread, e.g.Pink-footed Goose has been recorded in all 8 surrounding squares but not yet in SD62. The nearer the beginning of the list each species is, the more likely that it could be added during this last Winter Atlas period, November 2010 to February 2011. Of course some of the missing species may be due to differences in habitat between squares, and it may not be possible to record them all. Have a look at the lists, especially for your home square and if you should come across one of the missing species, please make a note of the Grid Reference or Tetrad where you saw it and then submit it as follows:
a) If you have registered for the Atlas direct to the BTO website as a Roving Record b) If you have not registered (please consider doing so) via the ELOC website. All club records are being forwarded for use in the Atlas. c) If you do not have access to the internet or cannot use the ELOC website on paper to me
Tony Cooper (BTO Regional Representative), 28 Peel Park Avenue, Clitheroe, BB7 1ET.
Species missing from SD62: Pink-footed Goose 8, Blackcap 7, Shelduck 6, Shoveler 6, Chiffchaff 6, Tree Sparrow 6, Common Crossbill 6, Scaup 5, Gadwall 4, Common Sandpiper 4, Willow Tit 4, Corn Bunting 4, Mallard (domestic) 3, Dunlin 3, Black-tailed Godwit 3, Green Sandpiper 3, Greylag Goose (domestic) 2, Pintail 2, Smew 2, Ruddy Duck 2, Hybrid duck 2, Black-necked Grebe 2, Swallow 2, Firecrest 2, Marsh Tit 2, Great Grey Shrike 2, Yellowhammer 2, Snow Goose (Lesser) 1, Hybrid goose 1, Red-crested Pochard 1, Velvet Scoter 1, Red-breasted Merganser 1, Golden Pheasant 1, Slavonian Grebe 1, Cormorant (Continental) 1, Great White Egret 1, Knot 1, Kittiwake 1, Turtle Dove 1, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1, Water Pipit 1, Hooded Crow 1, Carrion/Hooded Crow hybrid 1, Common Redpoll 1, Common Redpoll (Mealy) 1, Common Rosefinch 1, Black Swan 1, Trumpeter Swan 1, Swan Goose (Chinese Goose) 1, Eastern Rosella 1, Total: 50