a few meadow pipits around res

2 curlew on farm

3 snipe on banks of res

2 pied wagtails

usual great tits, blue tits, crows , jackdaws, magpies, woodpigeons, chaffinches, 1 linnet

no robins, thrushes of any sort

some canadas

on tops  - meadow pipits, 1 skylark, 

2 red grouse - never seen red grouse in rossendale before

a partidge which i thought may have been a grey partridge - ever seen partridge in rossendale before

a short-eared owl - must have been 2 metres away when it suddenly flew up pursued by lapwings, a large starling flock

45 herring gulls over - couple looking very white wingey and 1 looking very beastly

then back at holden wood 2 mallard drakes, 2 oystercatchers, 10 min lapwings in field, 2 grey wagtails, 1 grey heron, 7 cormorants most roosting

fisherman claimed that some cormorants have been carrying tiwgs...

also a hare on the tops..first i have seen in rossendale for a while