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Winter feeding stations.
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Sunrise to midday, heavy rain spells, 10 degrees, south easterly wind. First real change in numbers today, large flock of Chaffinch and Blackbird from first light, below are total counts for two sites. Blue Tit 16 Great Tit 13 Coal Tit 9 these appear to have had a good breeding year Long-tailed Tit onl...
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Grane
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8.20am to 1.40pm Holden Wood:- 8 Lapwing 10 Teal? 1 grey Wagtail 2-3 Pied wagtail 2-3 meadow pipit 1 goldcrest at top end 7-8 goldfinch 2 linnet 1 grey heron 1 great white egret - appeared around 11am as seen by Paul Burke - in its 3rd month, here till end at least 8 cormorant seen in total ? - 60 blac...
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Grane Reservoirs and Musden Head Moor
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09/11/14 9:15am to 1:40pmCalf Hey (with Neil)1 kestrel6 teal Musden Head Moor (with Neil)30 mallards in sky looking towards Hoddlesden1 jack snipe Ogden (with Neil)1 Cormorant Holden Wood1 great white egret1 little egret1 grey heron in meadow4 lapwing2 pied wagtail1 coot4 teal1 sparrowhaw...
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Cowm Res 9.11.14.
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Cowm Res Stonechat 3 minimum Raven 3 Cormorant 1 Tufted Duck 7 minimum Common Gull c10 B.H.Gull c60 Mallard c40 Mute Swan 1 adult 1 juvenile Pied Wagtail 1 Meadow Pipit 2 Reed Bunting 1 Robin c6 Great Tit 6 Coal Tit 1 Dunnock 3 Wren 2 Magpie c10 Jay 2 minimum Jackdaw 6 Carrion Crow c10 Wood Pigeon 6 Goldfinc...
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buckhurst/deeply vale
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good numbers of fieldfare this morning 100 above buckhurst and 400 in a flock circling over deeply vale . seemed to be in every hawthorn.other birds of note.pair of bulfinch and a treecreeper in trees below lower lodge and 10 teal on flood. cheers andrew
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Alden, 9th Nov 2014
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07:30-11:00 Grey Heron, 1 flying through the trees in Sunnybank Woods landed on a cottage roof, Kestrel, a tatty bird on the side of The Tor and a splendid male near Buckden, Pheasant, male in Alden, Golden Plover, a flock of 3 on the tops, Snipe, 9 singles on the tops and another whilst coming down Bull H...
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Holden Wood and Musbury
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9.30-13.30 Holden Wood:- 1 Goosander over 100 plus Canadas 10-15 Teal 6-10 Lapwing .... low numbers.....last year at this time in excess of 200? Mallard - where dId they all go? 1 kESTREL 1 Sparrowhawk 60 plus B H Gulls 2 common Gulls - 1 adult and 1 juv - they appear to be absent so far too! 2 juv...
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Twin Lodges 4/11/14
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09:15hrs 2 Dipper at Leabrook on the way up + pr Mistle Thrush at Collinge Fold Twin Lodges C30 Fieldfares + c10 Redwing + c6 Blackbird in hawthorns Mixed species flock feeding in hawthorns along track inc. 3 Meadow Pipit, 2m Bullfinch,10 Greenfinch, 10 Goldfinch, 2 Blue Tit. 30+ Starlings on wires. W...
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AMR and Cheesden area.. Scaup and poss R L Buzzard. 4th Nov `14..
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Scaup Drake in eclipse plumage on the res with 3 Tufted Duck to 1pm at least today. Been there since yesterday. Buzzard, poss/prob of the Rough legged variety flew NW on the moor edge past the nearest wind turbines behind the Owd Betts pub, being aggressively attacked by 3 Crows. Very obvious white tai...
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Ilex mill
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Peregrine causing havoc amongst local magpies and feral pigeons around 2pm today
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Marsh Harrier. Clowbridge. 2nd Nov `14.
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Juv over Clowbridge at c 7.30am today, left over Nutshaw Hill to SW. Craig.
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ALDEN BROOK / ALDEN ROAD
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Alden Brook 180 mix group of Starling and Redwing 1 Sparrowhawk 22 Charm of Goldfinch 1 Jay Lot of Magpie One brown bird about the size of a Carrion Crow disturbed it twice in brook kept low but made no alarm call hard to see with the low branches Alden Road 5 Blackbird 3m2f 1 Wren A lot of little mixed grou...
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Spring Mill, Cowm & Warth 02/11/14
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Spring Mill2 grey heron1 cormorant24 Canada geese flew past to Prickshaw Lodge2m & 2 redhead goosander4 common gull30 black headed gull1 lesser black backed gull1 meadow pipit30 woodpigeon85, 100 + 40 fieldfare flying south15 starling flying south1 raven over7 carrion crow3 jackdaw4 mag...
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New Line. Res 1.11.14.
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New Line Res Mandarin 1 m Tufted Duck 5 Moorhen 6 Malllard c20 Canada Geese c40 pfyldes
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Trickett's Memorial Ground 01/11/14
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sparrowhawk - 2 maleswoodpigeon - adult feeding a large fledged juvgrey wagtail - 1 overfieldfare - flock of c40redwing - 3nuthatch - 1raven - 1 overlong tailed tit - flocks of 12 & 8 (possibly the same birds)great tit - min 12blue tit - min 8coal tit - 3bullfinch - 1 heard cheers Kevin
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Winter feeding stations.
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I suppose the term "winter" is not quite appropriate at the moment, but the feeding stations have been up and running since the last week of September, during that time I have been away quite a bit and a friend has been topping up the feeders. In a normal year I would have used several kilos of f...
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Redwing
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Several hundred Redwing between Stubbins and Ewood bridge this morning, all feeding on Hawthorn, quite a few Mistle Thrush as well, one Female Sparrowhawk watching the activity around Irwell Vale. Regards Brian.
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Alden road, Alden ratchets, Beetle hill.
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Grey cloud, warm wind 16 degrees, 1200 hrs to 1600 hrs. Several large flocks of Fieldfare, Redwing, and Starling around the route, estimated total numbers below. Fieldfare 340 Redwing 160 Starling 400 Also seen, Green woodpecker Mistle Thrush 12 Song Thrush 6 Pheasant 13 Rook 50+ Jackdaw 70 + Carri...
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TWIN LODGE TO HALO TOP O'SLATE 31-10-2014
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Twin Lodge 1 Grey Heron 1 Thrush 6 Magpie Oaken Head Wood Old Road 11 Fieldfare 5 Meadow Pipits 1 Kestrel 5 Carrion Crows 1 Wren 8 Woodpigeons 3 Robins 1 Dunnock 2 Blackbirds 20 to 30 Magpie in all 8 Blue Tits in one group 5 Goldfinch Halo 60+ Starlings in one flock Small Lodge on Clough End Road 1 Juvenile Moo...
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Clowbridge res/Compstons Cross 31/10/14
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Clowbridge car park - lots of Goldfinch,Chaffinch, Greenfinch; at least 20 greenfinch, largest flock this autumn, rather scarce elsewhere on my wanderings. c50 flock of Wood Pigeon flew down the valley. Compstons Cross - 08:17 - 10:00 hrs - S. wind all birds to S. Redwing - 64 in 5 groups + 100 mixed f...
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Great white Egret
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After going to Holden wood pretty regularly in hope of spotting the great white I eventually had a good two hours watching the bird fish in and around the res today from 9.00am until 11.00am ,he came in from over the dam at first light, I got lots of shots of the bird but this shot was the first of the mornin...
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SEAT NAZE TO HURST LANE 29-10-2014
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Seat Naze 2 Kestrels One Kestrel on seat naze viewing through binoculars was being pinned down to the ground by two out of five magpies and had to put up a good fight to get away 6 Jackdaws 22 Carrion Crows Above marl Pits 3 Bullfinch 2m 1f 3 Goldcrest 8 Long-Tailed Tits very nice bird to watch feeding in and...
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Warth/ Hurdles area 25/10/14 & Seat Naze to Alderbottom 26/10/14
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Apologies for late posting due to a knackered computer at homelittle grebe - 2 adults and 3 large juvs Holmes Terrace Lodgecormorant - 1 flying over Rawtenstall towards Shortclough or Clowbridge & 2 flying from EBSW towards Granemallard - mc 70 at Rawtenstall, 28 at Holmes Terrace Lodge & 2...
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Haslingden Moor
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9.30-12 46 Snipe, min 20 Red Grouse near trig point.....flew out of sight.....could not be relocated.... 2 meadow pipits 1 pied wagtail 2 buzzards - one looking very rough legged.....pale, brown wing patches (I think they call it carpal) pale tail with brown tip.....tail and wing colour really...
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Grane Reservoirs 26th Oct
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10am-12pm Holden Wood2 mistle thrush1 sparrowhawk2 kestrel2 buzzard2 tufted duck9 teal (6 possibly same as seen on Ogden)1 grey heron4 Canada goose6 mallard5 cormorants1 coot Ogden4 mistle thrush1 sparrowhawk1 jay1 kestrel12 fieldfare9 teal4 cormorants Calf Hey1 great crested grebese...
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Grane, 25th Oct 2014
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14:00-17:00 G.C.Grebe, 1 on Calf Hey, Cormorant, 14 including 10 roosting in trees at Holden Wood, Grey heron, 1 fishing the bank at Holden Wood, Canada Goose, c80 in fields near Holden Wood, Mallard, c6, Teal, 8 on Holden Wood, Buzzard, pair over Heap Clough plus single at Calf Hey, Peregrine, 1, Kes...
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Grane - The Morning After, The Storm Before!
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- The Morning After, The Storm Before! 10am - 1 pm Holden Wood:- 6 Teal less than 10 Mallard 2 Grey Heron 15-16 Cormorants in roost approx. 20 Lapwing 1 Snipe flew on towards Ogden Long Tailed Tit flock in trees at other side 8 1st Winter Herring Gulls over 2 Stonechat 1 Coot 2 Ring Ouzel over, seep se...
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Harden Clough
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4 Ring Ouzel in the Clough this evening.. 2 Little Owl also.
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THE THREE RESERVOIRS GRANE 19-10-2014
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HOLDEN WOOD 2 Moorhen 1 Coot 1 Grey Wagtail Teal in all 6 40+ Lapwing in a mix of 6o+ Gulls 1 Pheasant on footbridge top end 1 Grey Heron 3 Mallard Meadow Pipit flickering about all over Cormorant up and down the three ress hard to keep a count Canada Geese a lot 8 Carrion Crow Jackdaw 26 in a flock 2 Kestrel 1 G...
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Buckden woods to Beetle hill.
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Low white cloud 12 degrees slight westerly. 0800 hrs to 1030 hrs. Two large feeding Tit flocks, estimate total would be 40 Blue Tit, 30 Great Tit, 35 Coal Tit, and 30 plus Long-tailed Tit. In the second flock were two ChiffChaff and one Nuthatch. Also in the woods were, Good numbers of Robin And Wren. Tre...
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