Spring Mill Res

• great crested grebe - 1pr
• cormorant - 1 flew away from the res
• Canada goose - 10
• mallard - 2 males
• pheasant - 2 calling birds
• lesser black-backed gull - 3
• swift - 4
• swallow - 6
• house martin - 4
• grey wagtail - male
• pied wagtail - 1
• woodpigeon - 6
• stonechat - 5 juvs together & a male at the other end of the res
• willow warbler - 5 singing birds
• starling - 41 collecting food on dam wall
• linnet - 1
• reed bunting - 2 males

Wallbank Lodge

• coot - 1pr with young
• moorhen - 1
• sparrowhawk - 1 male over pursued by a mistle thrush
• grey wagtail - 1 male
• blackcap - 1

Eastgate Woods/ Broadley Station/ Broadley Fold

• Great spotted woodpecker - 1pr
• song thrush - 3 singing
• blackcap - 4 singing birds
• chiffchaff - singing bird
• willow warbler - singing bird
• grasshopper warbler - 1 reeling
• nuthatch - singing bird
• long-tailed tit - family party
• bullfinch - 1

green woodpecker heard at Cowm

oystercatcher - 1pr with at least 2 young on an island in Whitworth Quarry

A few vits from yesterday

• goosander - female on the Irwell in Waterfoot
• great spotted woodpecker - 1pr feeding young in nest in Staghills Woods plus another pair at Lea Bank
• long-tailed tit - 2 family parties in Staghills Woods
• chiffchaff - 5 in Staghills Woods
• nuthatch - unusual to see 1 working its way along the wall on the River Limy in Rawtenstall near the confluence with the River Irwell

cheers Kevin