Staghills Woods (Trickett's to Lea Bank)

• collared dove - 1
• great spotted woodpecker - 2
• nuthatch - 1pr feeding young in nest and removing faecal sacs
• treecreeper - 1
• great tit - 1pr taking food to nest box
• blue tit - 1pr taking food to nest box
• blackcap - 5 singing
• chiffchaff - 2 singing
• willow warbler - 1 singing
• song thrush - 7 singing

Hareholme to Rawtenstall along the River Irwell

• buzzard - 1 soaring over Whinberry Naze
• swift - 3 over Rawtenstall
• pied wagtail - 1
• grey wagtail - 1 pr carrying food at Hareholme, single bird at back of the gas tower, & a male & female each with a fledged juv at Ilex Mill
• dipper - 2
• goldcrest - 1pr
• jay - 1

Cow Lane

• blackcap - 4
• chiffchaff - 2
• willow warbler - 1

Groundwork

• whitethroat - 1 singing
• chiffchaff - 1

K steels to Ewood Bridge

• kingfisher - 1
• pied wagtail - 1
• grey wagtail - female with fledged juv
• swallow - 4
• dipper - 1
• blackcap - 3
• willow warbler - 2
• whitethroat - 3 singing birds
• reed bunting - 1 male

EBSW circuit

• buzzard - 1 soaring high over Edenfield
• goosander - 1
• swallow - 7
• sand martin - 2
• house martin - 1
• blackcap - 3
• chiffchaff - 2
• willow warbler - 6
• goldcrest - 2 singing

cheers Kevin