3 swifts north over Ewood Bridge this morning.
Other odds'n'sods today:
About 100 hirundines over the sewage works am. Mostly swallows but c30 house martins
Bubbling curlews Alden and Musbury (bottom of valley)
Singing wheatear Alden and a pair (male chacking) Musbury
Blackcaps, chiffchaffs and willow warblers now present at all the expected sites between Rawtenstall and Ewood Bridge (no whitethroats yet).
Andy
2 Swifts over crawshawbooth primary school at 8.45am this morning also. (6 at Brockholes NR at lunchtime too)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137003530@N05/
Possibly the same birds as timing is about right. Or possibly not.....