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Limy Lane, CLOWBRIDGE. 2012 (Vis-mig/Ringing).
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Autumn Migration watch, 1st session. Sunday 26th August 2012. 6.15 - 9.30am. Early sun then quickly overcast. Light N wind. A quiet start with very little moving. Only noticable thing was 4 Tree Pipit and 1 Yellow Wag to South and a few L Redpoll`s flitting about. Tree Pipit - 4 singles to South. (1...
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Clowbridge, 10th Nov 2012
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09:00-10:00, still & misty Goosander, 1 adult male & 1 sub adult male on res, Moorhen, 1 on overflow pond, B.H.Gull, c6, Common Gull, 1, Little Owl, 1 on fence post on Nutshaw, Meadow Pipit, c4, Mistle Thrush, 1 on house chimney pot, L.T.Tit, 4 in willows near boat house, House Sparrow, c10 aro...
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Clowbridge res. 6/11/12
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08:15hrs - a small influx of wildfowl 6 Goldeneye 6 Teal 2 Wigeon 3 Meadow Pipit Pr Stonechat 6 B.H. Gull 1 Common Gull 1 Woodcock amongst plantings + 1 on 5/11/12 in car park - per A.Jones c20 Redwing flew N. through low cloud. Bob & Archie
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Staghills Woods and Whitworth 04/11/12
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Staghills Woods (Trickett's Memorial to Lea Bank)great spotted woodpecker - 2 in different areaswood pigeon - 2robin - 24blackbird - 26 (mostly single birds, 4 being the largest group)song thrush - 5 in Trickett's Memorial (1pr and a group of 3)blue tit - 26 (largest flock 5)great tit - 21 (largest f...
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Grane
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10.30am-2.20pm Holden Wood:- Dunnock, Pied wagtail, Mistle Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, House Sparrows on the path to the reservoir. On the res:- 1 Grey Heron, plenty of BH Gulls, Cormorant in roost tree, male Kestrel Musbury:- 2 Ravens over - wonder if the same birds Neil saw? 4 Mea...
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Various Sites 4.11.12.
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Clough Bottom Crossbill 1 over calling Common Gull 7 B.H.Gull 7 Goosander 1 redhead Stock Dove 1 over Grey Wagtail 1 Goldcrest odd ones Swallow Shore Fieldfare 350 minimum Starling c20 Pied Wagtail 1 Taylor Wood Edgeside Jay 1 G.S.Woodpecker 1m Park Road Plantation Siskin 10 minimum Goldfinch c6 L....
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Clowbridge, 4th Nov 2012
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08:00-10:00 Mallard, just a pair on the res, Sparrowhawk, 2 sinle females over could have been the same bird, Buzzard, one over Rawtenstall when I got back home! B.H.Gull, 5 on the res, Common Gull, 3 on the res first thing but then departed, Wood Pigeon, c40 over south in small parties, Little Owl, 1...
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Sun 4 November 2012 Edgerton moss, Hoglow Pike, Fairy glen
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1 Red Grouse 2 Raven flying over 6 Medow Pipit 6 Greenfinch 1 Woodcock Neil
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Whitworth Garden 4/11/12
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A Whitworth Garden, Nov 4, 2012 Protocol: Stationary Comments: Part Sunny at 2.5C. 18 species Feral Pigeon 3 Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Eurasian Jay 4 Common Magpie 2 Carrion Crow 2 Coal Tit 2 Great Tit 1 Blue Tit 2 Long-tailed Tit 7 Eurasian Wren 1 Full s...
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Whitworth 2/11/2012
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49 Fieldfare flying south at 7-20am over Cowm Park Way
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Mostly Clowbridge 29 Oct
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Clowbridge my first goldeneye of the winter plus 1 tufted duck, 1 teal, 4 goosanders, 1 cormorant. About 50 finches south car park (chaffinch, greenfinch and goldfinch), 1 stonechat. Skylark, few redwings and fieldfares heard in the mist Clough Bottom 1 lesser black-backed gull, 1 black-headed...
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Stronstry woods.
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There are Blackbirds every where this morning, there were 14 on the ground at the feeding station at one time around 0800hrs, and over 30 counted at various points through the woods to Irwell Vale. The majority were males.
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Clowbridge res. 27/10/12
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12:30 start 6 B.H.Gull 10 Fieldfare >E + c40 in the hedge off Limy lane flew S. then c60 heading N. but pushed W. over New Laithe Odd Blackbirds, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Mistle Thrush Pr Stonechat along lane at rear of boat house. Mixed tit flock of c20 birds at Goodshawfold contained min 6 Long Taile...
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Warth and Hurdles Quarry 27/10/12
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Warth 1 heron on river, a good mix of birds in one area included 1 mistle thrush, 3 redwing, 3 blackbird, 1 robin,3 blue tit, 2 great tit, 3 long tailed tit, 1 chiffchaff, 6 goldfinch, 2 chaffinch, 2 greenfinch & 2 siskin Hurdles area 1 buzzard mobbed by 2 crows before flying off towards Horncliffe...
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Croston close rd/Cheesden/Scout moor.
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1400hrs to dusk Bright sunny and cold. Cannada goose 14 Mallard 6 Teal 2 Reed Bunting 2 Dipper 1 Little owl 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Pied Wagtail 6 Stonechat [fe] 1 Starling 40+ Redwing 14 Kestrel 1 Lapwing 20+ over Blackheaded Gull, many Goosander 5 over Goldfinch charm of 10 + Meadow pipit 5 Several Blue Tits a...
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Edenfield - Top of Leach- 26/10/12
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Quiet day all around 2 Goldfinch at Gincroft 1 Goldcrest at Plunge + 1 Blackbird 1f Sparrowhawk - Plunge mobbed by 8 Meadow Pipits 1 Wren on wall nr cattle pen 19 +1 + 9 Meadow Pipits along track plus several other singles c30 flock of Fieldfare at top of Lench Small numbers of M.Pipits in Cragg Quarry - no s...
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Cowm Reservoir,Whitworth.26/10/2012
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50+ Fieldfare heading west over the reservoir this evening. Dave Ousey.
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Hen Harrier Records Urgently Required
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A proposal has been submitted to fence off part of Champion Moor in Bowland (grid ref. SD750530). The East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club (ELOC) has submitted an objection, one of the main grounds being that the moor is both a hunting ground and roosting site for Hen Harrier. (We would not normally...
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Grane Wednesday 24 Oct
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Late Posting - walk from 1.30pm-5.10pm Holden Wood :- 10 pied wagtails 1 cormorant some linnet 1 grey heron 100 plus black-headed gulls through with 1 common gull robin in song wren in rushes on other side under ogden dam wall long-tailed tits Musbury :- little owl buzzard kestrel green woo...
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Various Sites 25 Oct
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Hameldon Hill 150+ pink-feet west 14.00, 1 wheatear between here and Goodshaw Hill, 35 snipe Thirteen Stone Hill 1 merlin, 80 lapwing 200 starling, 5 mallard, 6 snipe Clowbridge 1 moorhen, 2 mallard, few black-headed gulls only things on water. 1 little owl, c 20 long-tailed tits Grane 1 cormor...
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Hen Harrier Folly Clough
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Ringtail being harassed by crows heading towards Crawshawbooth c 12.00 Andy
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Redwing & Fieldfare
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Just a note to keep your eyes upwards if outside as some record number of Thrushes have been seen yesterday on the East coast. Be interesting to read if any are noted by the vis miggers. Good time of year.
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Fieldfares
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Hi, i am more of a photographer of birds ,however today while i was at spring mill res i spotted travelling north to south a flock of at least 130 fieldfares around 1.30pm
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Whitworh and New Line 21.10.12.
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Healey Dell Nuthatch 3 minimum Jay 2 Grey Wagtail 1 Tawny Owl 1 calling Cowm Res Tufted Duck 6 Common Gull 5 B.H.Gull c60 Pink-footed Goose c45 over west New Line Tufted Duck 6 Canada Goose 42 Mallard c20 Moorhen3 pfyldes and johnh
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Lench to EBSW 21/10/12
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green sandpiper - 1 on the beds at EBSWsparrowhawk - 1 over EBSW and 1 at Warthkestrel - 2 over Warthblack headed gull - c100 @ EBSWcommon gull - 1 at EBSWherring gull - a juvenile bird at EBSW was probably a pale second winter birdstock dove - 2 at EBSWskylark - 1 near Hurdles Quarrymeadow pipit - c35 in Hur...
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Clowbridge, 21st Oct 2012
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10:00-11:30 Cormorant, 1 flew in, Mallard, 5, Kestrel, 4 around Nutshaw, one being mobbed aggressively by a Carrion Crow, Sparrowhawk, female being mobbed by a Carrion Crow, Moorhen, 2 on Clowbridge Res, Snipe, 1 over calling, B.H.Gull, c12, Common Gull, 1, Herring Gull, flock of 6 over north, Wo...
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Sat & Sunday sightings from my front & back gardens Haslingden
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Sat Adult Goshawk soaring, came from the south , went west 1 hour later 1 Sarrowhawk Sun 2 Flocks of approx 100 Pink-footed Goose? east to west Siskin, Robin, Long-tailed tit, Greenfinch, Blue, Great, Coal tit. Neil
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Clowbridge res & environs 20/10/12
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10:15 hrs Car park - c14 Long Tailed Tit with c6 Grt Tit +c4 Blue Tit c4 Robin in song res. - 1f Goosander, 1 Common Gull, 4 B.H.Gull, 1 juv. Moorhen Compstons Cross - c200 Pink footed Goose E-W at 11:07 hrs, 1 Raven > E. Nutshaw Hill & quarry - 1 Kestrel, 1 Little Owl Hameldon Hill -32 Snipe, 1 Skylar...
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Strongstry.
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My better half [Maureen] tells me that a male Sparrowhawk has spent most of the afternoon perched on the suspended bird table opposite my house, needless to say nothing else was to be seen.
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Weekend sightings 13-14/10/12
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Clowbridge res. 13/10/12 3f Goosander 1 Pied Wagtail 2 Mistle Thrush 1 Blackbird 1 Reed Bunting 3 Redpoll Flock of 13 Redwing in plantings 1 Peregrine flew towards Wagonners pub 2 Reed Bunting at Compstons Cross 1 Chiffchaff calling from plantation 4 Rook >N. very little in the way of anything on t...
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