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Post Info TOPIC: Peers Clough to Clough Bottom via Greenfold & Clowbridge 18/04/25


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Peers Clough to Clough Bottom via Greenfold & Clowbridge 18/04/25
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Peers Clough 

  • curlew heard
  • stock dove - 1pr
  • swallow - 2
  • skylark - c5 singing
  • meadow pipit - 4
  • greenfinch

Greenfold

  • Canada goose - 5
  • flock of c25 golden plover seen distantly flying over the brow of the hill from Peers Clough
  • lapwing - c4 seen
  • curlew - 1pr
  • pheasant - 2
  • skylark - c15
  • meadow pipit c10
  • wheatear - 1
  • reed bunting 2 males

Clowbridge with Nigel

  • great crested grebe - 2
  • cormorant - 1 over and down the Limy valley
  • Canada goose - 3prs
  • mallard - 3 drakes
  • oystercatcher - 1 over and down the Limy valley
  • common sandpiper - 3
  • lapwing - 2 seen by Nige in Point Wood field
  • curlew - c5
  • sparrowhawk - male
  • kestrel - 1
  • swallow - 3
  • skylark - 2
  • meadow pipit - 5
  • grey wagtail - 1
  • stonechat - 1 being harassed by a chiffchaff (Nigel only)
  • blackbird - 1
  • willow warbler - c7
  • grasshopper warbler - reeling bird near Compston's Cross
  • coal tit - 4
  • magpie - 4
  • raven - 2
  • carrion crow - c12
  • goldcrest - singing bird at Point Wood
  • chaffinch - 4 singing
  • goldfinch - 1pr  several singles
  • redpoll - min 3
  • reed bunting - 3 males

Clough Bottom

  • red necked grebe - 1, presumably the Clowbridge bird relocating 
  • Canada goose - 1pr
  • mallard - 2prs & 3 drakes
  • lesser black-backed gull - max of 8 on the water
  • buzzard - 1 mobbed by crows
  • peregrine - 1 landed on the bank at the dam wall & was seen later heading towards Burnley
  • woodpigeon - flock of 17 on pasture
  • stock dove - 1pr at Swallow Shore
  • whitethroat - 1 sang briefly before the rain
  • willow warbler - c8
  • chiffchaff - 2 singing
  • goldcrest - 3 singing birds
  • linnet - 2

cheers Kevin



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