starling singing from the roof of St. Nicholas's Church plus 8 others in general area
1 greenfinch
Ashland's Nursing Home Turn Pike
2 great spotted woodpecker
1pr nuthatch
2 song thrush
coal tit singing
1pr long tailed tit nest building
1 goldcrest
1 jay
2 greenfinch
Seat Naze
2 pied wagtail
1 male stonechat along the footpath in front of Windy Willows Farm (1st ever record here for me)
8 magpie
6 jackdaw
4 carrion crow
flock of 5 chaffinch plus 1 other bird
Edge Cote
3 lapwing
36 snipe
9 jack snipe (can't recall a count as high as this locally. The highest count on ELOC going back to 1st Jan 2008 is 7)
10 common gull
1 black headed gull
1 male pheasant
1pr stock dove
1 singing skylark plus 2 calling birds. Another calling bird heard over the golf driving range at Marl Pits
1 meadow pipit
goldcrest calling from conifers
2 raven
1 reed bunting
Hurst Lane
1 goldcrest
1pr siskin
2 greenfinch
Groundwork with Andy Young
1 peregrine on Hardman Mill chimney
1 treecreeper
1 pr long tailed tit
1 male siskin
Holmes Terrace Lodge again with Andy Young
1 grey heron
1 little grebe
1pr Canada goose
2pr mallard
1 moorhen
4 black headed gull
1 mistle thrush
1 song thrush
1 nuthatch
1pr long tailed tit
Waterfoot area
14 grey heron at Warth
1 + 3 cormorant flying down the valley at 5pm, probably to roost at Holden Wood
1 female sparrowhawk over Hugh Mill
flock of 21 common gull followed by a flock of 11 herring gull flying down the Irwell Valley from Cowpe @ 5pm. These 2 flocks were followed by 3 larger flocks of assorted common, herring & lesser black backed gulls totalling c200 birds in the next 10 minutes heading in the same direction
1 grey wagtail at Warth
1 treecreeper at our feeders at Gaghills
min 100 jackdaws in the Rough Lea/ Warth area in pre roost gathering
