1 whitethroat (at last!) singing next to the football field. At least 200 hirundines over the sewage works - mostly swallows but perhaps 50 house martins and 10 sand martins. 4 blackcaps, 4 chiffchaffs and one or two willow warblers between Groundwork and EBSW
Holden Wood
1 white wagtail and 2 wheatears in the lapwing field. A pair of stonechats at the top end. 1 great black-backed gull (Sarfraz).
Above Jamestones/Troy
25 wheatears - 19 in various small groups above Jamestones, 4 then 2 along the track past Troy to the moors. Male ring ouzel in the same location as Sunday. No teal/tufties seen around Grane today
Thirteen Stone Hill
One snipe chipping then drumming on the east side - a splendid though sadly rare site in Rossendale these days. Also two bubbling curlews, two lapwings around here, plus stock dove, reed bunting, 15 starlings and a few swallows around a nest site.
Re the wheatears I think reasonable numbers of females although the majority still males (unless Sarfraz disagrees!). Birds were moving through and we only saw the back end of a good number of them.
