2 teams participated in the summer bird race this year; team A - Dave & Sarfraz (72 species) & team B Paul & Kevin (68 species)

Full list of species seen shown below. Highlights included a red kite (a first for a bird race in Rossendale)over Whitworth Quarry, golden plover, dunlin, sedge warbler & garden warbler

• 1. Little grebe - 2 sites
• 2. Cormorant - 3 at Holden Wood & 1 at Calf Hey
• 3. Grey heron
• 4. Canada goose
• 5. Mallard
• 6. Red kite - 1 over Whitworth Quarry
• 7. Buzzard 
• 8. Sparrowhawk - 2 in the Alden Valley
• 9. Kestrel
• 10.Peregrine
• 11.Moorhen
• 12.Pheasant
• 13.Oystercatcher
• 14.Little ringed plover
• 15.Golden plover
• 16.Lapwing
• 17.Dunlin
• 18.Common sandpiper - birds at Clough Bottom, Clowbridge & Holden Wood
• 19.Curlew
• 20.Snipe
• 21.Black-headed gull
• 22.Herring gull
• 23.Lesser black-backed gull
• 24.Great black-backed gull - 1 at Holden Wood
• 25.Feral pigeon
• 26.Woodpigeon
• 27.Stock dove
• 28.Collared dove
• 29.Barn owl
• 30.Swift - c100 at Clowbridge Res
• 31.Kingfisher - 1 at Shortclough Res
• 32.Great spotted woodpecker - 1 in Waterfoot & 1 at Dowry Head
• 33.Skylark
• 34.Sand martin 
• 35.Swallow
• 36.House martin
• 37.Meadow pipit
• 38.Pied wagtail
• 39.Grey wagtail
• 40.Wren
• 41.Dipper
• 42.Dunnock
• 43.Robin
• 44.Wheatear
• 45.Stonechat
• 46.Song thrush
• 47.Mistle thrush
• 48.Blackbird
• 49.Garden warbler - 1 at Holden Wood & possibly 2 singing at Clough Bottom
• 50.Blackcap
• 51.Whitethroat
• 52.Sedge warbler - 1 at Holden Wood
• 53.Willow warbler
• 54.Chiffchaff
• 55.Grasshopper warbler - 1 at Clough Bottom, courtesy of John Hallsworth
• 56.Goldcrest
• 57.Great tit
• 58.Coal tit - 1pr noted ground nesting & feeding young in a hole near the base of a conifer at Clough Bottom
• 59.Blue tit
• 60.Long-tailed tit
• 61.Nuthatch
• 62.Treecreeper - family calling at Hareholme
• 63.Magpie
• 64.Jay
• 65.Jackdaw
• 66.Rook
• 67.Carrion crow
• 68.Raven
• 69.Starling
• 70.House sparrow
• 71.Chaffinch
• 72.Linnet
• 73.Redpoll
• 74.Goldfinch
• 75.Greenfinch
• 76.Siskin
• 77.Bullfinch
• 78.Reed bunting

notable omissions were coot, green woodpecker, tawny owl & little owl

cheers 

Rossendale birders