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Lench

  • Canada goose - 2prs with 3 & 5 goslings
  • pied wagtail - 4
  • grey wagtail - 1
  • swallow - 7
  • house martin - 1
  • nuthatch - 1
  • mistle thrush - 1 fledged juv
  • great tit - pr feeding young in nest in hole in wall
  • long tailed tit - 1
  • greenfinch - 1 calling
  • redpoll - 1 calling

Cowpe Village

  • starling - 5
  • house sparrow - 30 - 40 birds, all adults

Kearn's Lodge

  • Canada goose - 1pr with 5? goslings in cover
  • swallow - 2
  • house martin - 2
  • willow warbler - 1

Cowpe Res

  • Canada goose - 1pr with 4 goslings. 9 others flew off the res
  • curlew - 1 pr in muck spread field below the dam wall
  • kestrel - 1 male
  • lesser black backed gull - 174 in field near the res. Up to 50 at a time coming to bathe and drink at the res. More birds higher up at Brandwood Moor. Probably c300 birds present in total
  • herring gull - at least 1 in with the lesser black backs
  • meadow pipit - 6
  • pied wagtail - 1
  • grey wagtail - 1pr
  • dipper - 1
  • stonechat - 1 male
  • linnet - 1pr
  • reed bunting - 2 males round the res & 2 on the hillside

Cragg Quarry

  • Canada Goose - 1pr in quarry & 2pr at Cragg High Level Tank, 1pr of which had 1 small gosling
  • buzzard - 1 near Fo Edge
  • kestrel - 1 near Fo Edge
  • swift - 2 near Black Hill
  • skylark - 4
  • meadow pipit - 12
  • pied wagtail - 1
  • wheatear - 1pr
  • wren - 1

Whittaker Pasture

  • buzzard - 2 over Waterfoot
  • lapwing - 3
  • wheatear - 1m

Warth

  • Canada goose - 1pr with 3 goslings
  • dipper - 1 singing
  • willow warbler - 1 singing

Gaghills

  • peregrine - 1 chasing pigeons

cheers Kevin



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