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Deerplay
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Little Egret flying North up the valley
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Greenfold 29/10/24
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Large flocks of distant birds in the air initially seen over Greenfold from Cribden Clough. Arrived on site with Nigel G. at 13:10hrs approx. c/400 Starling on pasture and amongst Lapwings. 200+ Lapwing 3 Snipe 4 Golden Plover 4 Meadow Pipit 1 cock Pheasant 1 Raven over 12 Wood Pigeon over moving down...
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odds 'n' sods
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Whitworth Quarry 27/10/24Jack snipe - 1snipe - 7meadow pipit - 12linnet - 2 buzzard soaring over Waterfoot 27/10 Rawtenstall 26/10buzzard over Groundwork4 goosander with 39 mallard on the River @ Tescogoldcrest singing in the fire station grounds Park Road, Bacup kingfisher flew through @ firs...
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Clowbridge 1215-1315hrs
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Grey wagtail single on the steam before the car park Goldfinch Bullfinch pair Reed bunting 5M 2F all together Stonechat Meadow pipit 50+ mostly in the south bay Kestrel Black headed gull 30+Mallard 20 Greater Black Backed gull single sat on the res. Raven single over quarry cheers, Phi...
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Irwell vale and Lumb
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1400/1600 hrs overcast southerly 12 degrees. checked the lodge at Lodge Farm, Coot. Two adults and one well developed young, presume breeding took place. Little Grebe. Single adult fishing, no sign of any more. Great Spotted Woodpecker. Single female. Jay. 3 in trees. Long-tailed Tits. 7. G...
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Reedsholme/Chapel Hill/Lower Cribden
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Canada Geese 30 dropped on to Shortclough Mallard c25 Twin Lodge Lesser Black Back Gull 3 Moorhen 6 (3 Shortclough 3 Twin Lodge) Woodpigeon c60 small flocks heading south Buzzard 2 Kestrel 2 Chapel Hill Kingfisher 1 Rakefoot Meadow Pipit 2 Grey Wagtail 2 Dipper 1 Dunnock 1 Wren 2 Robin c10 Blackbi...
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Cribden Clough 23/10/24
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14:00 hrs. 7 Raven playing on the wind over Cribden End for 2 hours or so, 2 birds flew across the valley only to return back after 20 minutes. 3 Kestrel between Cribden hilltop and Cribden Clough. 1 Buzzard Wood Pigeon flocks of c/25 and 7 + odd single figure groups in bushes. Flock of 3 Goldfinch Jay call...
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Clowbridge res. 23/10/24
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09:30 hrs 2 Cormorant c/30 Canada Goose in field 5+7 Mallard 1f Goosander 1 G.B.B. Gull 1 L.B.B. Gull 4 Common Gull c/10 B.H. Gull Flocks of Wood Pigeon heading south 136 in 9 flocks. c/15 Jackdaw heading S. 3 Redwing in woodland with 1 Long tailed Tit. 1m Stonechat near Compstons Cross + a pair at the rese...
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Clowbridge 22nd Oct 2024
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09:00-11:00 Cormorant, 4, 2 on res and 2 over, Pink Footed Goose, a skein flew over calling but couldn't see them due to low cloud, Canada Goose, 2 on res, Sparrowhawk, female soaring high behind boat house, Lapwing, 2 over south, Black Headed Gull, 4 on res, Common Gull, 1 on res, Wood Pigeon, c80 throu...
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Reedsholme - Cribden Clough area 19/10/24
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Cribden Clough - Oakenhead Wood rd - Twin Lodges Flock of 10 Redwing + 3 in bushes. 1 Mistle Thrush 3 Long tailed Tit + 5. c20 flock of mostly Chaffinch w/3+ Goldfinch. 4 Goldfinch at Twin Lodges 1+1+2 Blackbird. 1 Greenfinch 2+3 Great Tit 3 Dunnock 1 Blue Tit 8 Starling 4 Wood Pigeon 1 Jay Party of 3 Song Thr...
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Whitworth to Lee Quarry 19/10/24
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Wallbank Lodgemallard - 5wigeon - 1 fmoorhen - 4black-headed gull - 6grey wagtail - 1redwing - 7 flying up the valley Healey Dellmoorhen - 3great spotted woodpecker - 1nuthatch - 2goldcrest - 2jay - 1 Spring Mill Resgreat crested grebe - 1cormorant - 4goosander - 1 redheadbuzzard - 1black-headed gu...
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Reedsholme area 17/10/24
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2 Buzzard over west side as far as Cribden Clough. 3 Kestrel above Reedsholme as far as Cribden Hill. 1 Dipper at Leabrook. Twin Lodges - Flock of c/30 Redwings amongst the scrub - my first this autumn. 5 Blackbird 1 juv. Greenfinch 1m Bullfinch c/3 Chaffinch c/12 Goldfinch 1 Moorhen 7 Canada Goose c/6 M...
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Reedsholme 14/10/24
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4 Buzzard in the air this morning outside my house. Prompted me to don my boots. Constant sightings all afternoon as far as Cribden Clough. Display seen from one bird and much calling from what I presume are young birds. 3 kestrels hunting over the hillside as far as Cribden all afternoon. 1 pair of Rave...
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Strongstry winter feeding station.
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1200/1400 hrs 12 degrees calm sunny. The feeding station has been up and running for seven days now so I have done a 2 hour count today lots of coming and going so numbers are averaged. Blue Tit. 8 Great Tit. 10 Coal Tit. 7 Long-tailed Tit. 7 Goldfinch. 14 Chaffinch. 5 Two have white legs (papilloma...
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pink-footed geese 13/10724
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2 skeins of Pink-footed geese very rough estimate of 50 - 100 birds in each seen heading east, south-east over Weir this morning. A further skein (c100) seen a short while later heading west over The Hile cheers Kevin
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twite 13/10/24
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Flock of 17 twite at undisclosed location today. Flock included several colour ringed birds from the RSPB monitoring scheme cheers Kevin
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East view lodge.
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0830/1030 hrs 5/9 degrees, calm sunny. Redwing. Only 8 this morning, seems to be a poor Hawthorn berry year. Blackbird. 17 in total looks like an influx of continental birds. Redpoll. 3 Jay. 2 Mistle Thrush. 1 Blackcap. Single females was a surprise. Goldcrest 3 Good numbers of Blue, Great an...
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Ring Ouzel Grane 12/10/2024
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Calf Hey 3 Ring Ouzel Hill side 1M 2F 250+ Goldfinch in the heather all along hill side from Ogden to Calf Hey in small charms of 15/25 3 Mistle Thrush 18 Redwing over Cheers Craggy
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sharneyford to Deerplay 10/10
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Snipe-1
Skylark-1
Meadow Pipit-40 plus
Kestrel-2
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Raven-1
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East view/Ox Hey Woods.
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1400/1630 hrs Sunny 16 degrees. Redwing. 14 feeding on Holly and Hawthorn East View. Redpoll. 3 with flock of Goldfinch. Greenfinch. 5 sunning on top of Poplar. Kestrel. Over. Long-tailed Tit. Flock of 9 Ox Hey wood Song Thrush. 2 as above. Sparrowhawk. Hunting through woods Several Blckbi...
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Deerplay Area 6 10 24
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Deerplay area Lapwing 30 + 50 Starling 200+ Canada Geese 20 Grey Partridge 3 Pied Wagtail 2 minimum Meadow Pipit c20 Carrion Crow 6 B H Gull 1 Peter
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Whitworth Quarry 06/10/24
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teal - 1 flew up from wet area on the mosssnipe 7jack snipe - 1buzzard - 3kestrel - 1meadow pipit - 29 cheers Kevin
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Waterfoot 05/10/24
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A few bits from an afternoon strollswallow - 2house martin - thought I could hear birds calling from a nest on the con club this morning. at least 8 birds flying around this eveningstock dove - 2 at Warthgoldcrest - singing bird at Warthredwing - 2 at Warthdipper - 2 at Sandybank, 1 of which had to dive in t...
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Stubbins/Ewood bridge round Robin.
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1400/1700 hrs pleasant sunshine 15 degrees. Good numbers of Blackbird, Robin, and Wren around the route. Jay. 3 along the railway Strongstry. Song Thrush. 4 in woodland. Blue Tit / Great Tit numbers seem ok. Long-tailed Tit. Group of 7 Alderbottom. Coal Tit. Only saw 2 at Alderbottom. Great Spo...
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Redwing 28-9-24
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Overhead Redwing Newchurch 22:30, 29/9/30 3:52am, Moorhen 2:00am 29/9/24 Ian
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Clough bottom
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1130-1245hrs Reed bunting pair Stonechat 4 not all together Long tailed tit 4 Coal tit 3 Goldfinch c20+Goldcrest Meadow pipit 50+ around Swallow 3 Lapwing 100+Golden Plover Great crested grebe single Stock dove pair Black headed gull Common gull single Lesser black backed gull 4C...
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Clowbridge res. 24/9/24
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Afternoon ramble - 4 Cormorant inc. 1 white breasted individual. 1 Grey Heron 12 Canada Geese in fields c30 Mallard 3 Teal on the back pond feeding amongst the blue green algae. 1f Goosander 1 Common Sandpiper 1 male Kestrel 1 Buzzard over the woodland Pr Raven 1 Pied Wagtail 1 Kingfisher on the outflo...
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Shortclough res
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6 little Egrets plus 3 little grebes courtesy of Vanessa land owner
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Cloughbottom
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Golden plover 1 teal 3 gc grebe1 stonechat3 reed bunting 2 jay1
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Clowbridge 1245-1345hrs
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Cold, Stonechat c7 south bay total of 13 around the res. Reed bunting 3 Linnet 3 Wheatear single female Cormorant 4 Mallard 10 Moorhen Pied wagtail 3 Heron single Common sandpiper single Kestrel single cheers, Phil
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