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Gaghills Christmas day am
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2 (possibly 3) bramblings were at our feeders this morning. Also noted were 1m 1f great spotted woodpecker, 3 blackbird, 1 song thrush, 1 robin, 1m 1f bullfinch, 11 goldfinch, 15 chaffinch, 40 greenfinch, 2 coal tit, 3 blue tit, 2 great tit, 1 jackdaw, 5 starling, 3 house sparrow,...
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Staghills Woods, Irwell Valley and Haslingden Grane 24/12/06
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Staghills Woods
4 jay, 1m 1f great spotted woodpecker, 2 song thrush singing, 1 mistle thrush singing, 1 dipper on the Irwell, 6 redpoll.
Lower Cloughfold
2 redwimg, 2 song thrush, 3 long tailed tit, 2m 3f bullfinch.
Holmes Terrace Lodge
2 grey heron, c55 mallard, 2 moorhen, 16 blac...
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Shortclough res.
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24/12/06 Shortclough Res. ref 813 250 -2:00pm
2 Cormorant (1st I've seen here), 17 Goosander, 2 Moorhen 1 G.S.W. and c60 mixed Starling, Fieldfare and Redwing. Total absence of any Mallard. Very quiet otherwise with little sign of any finches or tits.
All the best to everybody for...
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Haslingden 23 Dec 2006
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Peregrine flew over house. Flock of 50 Lapwings flying over Haslingden
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Calf hey Res 24 Dec2006
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NEW HALL HEY
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22/12/06 11-00AM
UNDER RAILWAY BRIDGE
1 PAIR GOOSEANDER,2 DIPPER,1 GREY HERON,
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR READERS DAVE
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Ho Ho Ho!
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17/12/06
Shortclough Res - Clowbridge Res 13.30 - 15.45
Shortclough Res ref 813 250 - 20 Goosander (9 M.), 6 Mallard, 7 Teal and c100 Fielfares and Starlings.
Bonfire Hill Quarry ref 816 254 - 1 Jay
Liver Hill ref 830 262 - 3 Goldfinch and c20 large gulls moving from E >W also a Kestrel p...
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Pink Feet - Reedsholme
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20/12/06 - 11:30 hrs
Reedsholme ref. 809 244
c60 Pink Footed Goose moving from E. > W. - would have overflown Newchurch and the Cribden area of Haslingden in all probability.
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Holden Wood, Grane
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was there from 3.05pm to 4.20pm thursday
1 great crested grebe, 14 mallard, 2 mallard flew over passing the reservoir, furhter 6 mallards came and landed, saw 3 moorhens - not sure is all 3 were different birds though......i think possibly 2 birds in total,
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Haslingden Moor. Sunday 17 Decmber 2006
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8 Golden Plover. 4 Red Grouse. 5 Snipe.
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Clough Bottom, Jack Lodge, Shadlock Cote 17/12/06
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Jack Lodge
1 grey heron, 18 mallard, 1 moorhen and 1 green woodpecker
Shadlock Cote and Lumb Corner
1 grey heron, 24 black headed gull, 4 mistle thrush, flocks of 20 and 70 fieldfare
Clough Bottom
1 cormorant, 2 kestrel, 1 grey wagtail, 2 redwing, 1 jay
cheers Kevin
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Ashworth Moor Res 16/12/06
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Turn Village/Bleakholt 14:00
sparrowhawk 1m, lesser black backed gull 3 south west, circa 150 mixed black headed gull and common gull feeding in fields nearby, 20 fieldfare, 17 redwing, 1 mistle thrush, 2 long tailed tit.
Harden Moor 14:30
circa 250 mixed black headed gull and common gull, 3...
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Whitworth Garden 16th Dec
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At first light this morning at 08:10 a lone Female Siskin was feeding with 10 Goldfinch.
Also the Grey Wagtail is still a regular and has now been coming for over 15 months.
A Sparrowhawk was being mobbed by several Carrion Crows.
40 Starlings also present. -- Edited by Ste Rush at 08:38, 2006-12...
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holden wood reservoir - grane
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was there at 2.45 .....1 great crested grebe, 7 mallards.....of which 2 males flew away bt replaced by a pair after 15 minutes
cormorannt flew off in the direction of ogden reservoir...presumably on the bank or in the trees
4 meadow pipits, plenty of black headed gulls a...
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Gaghills, Cowpe, Plunge, EBSW and Holmes Terrace Lodge 10/12/06
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Gaghills 08:30. The following were at our feeders 26 goldfinch, 1 pr bullfinch, 15 chaffinch, 3 brambling, 40 greenfinch, 1 coal tit, 1 long tailed tit, 6 blue tit, 2 great tit, 8 collared dove, 2 blackbird, 1 robin, 9 starling, 1 jay and 6 house sparrow. A song thrush was singing briefly yesterd...
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North West Rossendale Res's 10/12/06
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Ogden. Cormorant 2, mallard 4, Grey Heron 1, B.H Gull c50, Common Gull 2.
Holden Wood. Cormorant 2, G.C.Grebe 1, Mallard 7, B.H Gull c80, Common Gull 1,Meadow Pipit 2, Grey Wagtail 1, Fieldfare 120, Redwing 60, Mistle Thrush 5, kestrel 1, Stonechat pair, Jay 1.
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Cowm Res 9th Dec 2006 pm
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~ 100 Black Heads, ~10 Common Gull, 12 Canadas, 4M+2F Tufted, 1F goldeneye, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Mallards looking good, 2 Moorhen
At 12:30 ~100 Geese flew over Bacup which I took to be Pink Feet but I was in the car and couldn't make a positive ID.
Cheers
Ian
PS I won't be able to make the n...
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Ashworth Moor Res 26/11/06
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Ashworth Moor Res: 1 great crested grebe, 20 canada geese flew in to roost, 4 mallard, 1f shoveler, 51 goosander, 1 kestrel, circa 50 common and 500 black headed gulls roosted, 2ad & 1 juv great black backed gulls, 2 short eared owls, 1 pr stonechat, 35 fieldfare, 57 redwing flew east, 9 pied wagtai...
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Dipper and nuthatch sightings & others
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Walking the dog up the Alden stream, Musbury on 27th Nov at 10am, a dipper was feeding in the leaves at the western end of the stream. New white splashes on the rocks as I walked upstream told me he was about, as we had had rain in the night and sure enough, the white flash of his chest was visibl...
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Limy Valley Bottomlands
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Dec 4th 2006 3pm ish - Leabrook ref 809 237 - Tip Lodge ref 814 237
Greetings all -
Several species showing despite a poor day weather wise. A pair of Dippers were at Leabrook on the river and a group of 16 Long Tailed Tits were in trees close by. A further group of at least 10 birds (there's a lot ab...
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Edgecote, Irwell Valley, Grane etc 03/12/06
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Edgecote 10:00, 26 common snipe, 1 skylark, 2 meadow pipit, circa 600 starling put to flight by a sparrowhawk, 40 fieldfare.
Marl Pits 10:50, 1m sparrowhawk, 21 black headed gull, 2 jay,2 mistle thrush, 7 redwing, 3 lomg tailed tit, 1m bullfinch.
Holme Lane and Holmes Terrace Lodge area 1...
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Cowm Res, 08:00 - 09:00 A.M 02/12/06
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G.C.Grebe 1, Canada Goose c 20, Tuted Duck 2 males, Goldeneye 2, Mallard c50, Kestrel 1, Wood Pigeon c400 flew over, several flocks of 15-20 also present, B.H.Gull c 70, Common Gull c 6,Blackbird c 8 in same Hawthorn, Song Thrush 2, Mistle Thrush 2, Redpoll 1 flew over, Bullfinch 2, Chaff...
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Early morning! 01/12/06
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Birds singing / calling this morning in the pitch dark at 06:15 were Tawny Owl, Robin and Dunnock!
Regards,
David
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DO IT ALL
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10-00AM RIVER IRWELL 29/11/06
2 MALE, 3 REDHEAD GOOSEANDER
NICK FYLDES
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NEW HALL HEY
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RIVER IRWELL UNDER RAILWAY BRIDGE 15-30pm
1 pair gooseander,1 heron,mixed flock blue and great tits c12
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park rd ind estate bacup 28/11/06
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1 song thrush singing today, mistle thrush singing today and yesterday, 5 teal flew over yesterday towards newline or cowm res.
cheers kevin
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Clowbridge 25 Nov 06
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40 Canadas, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Female Goldeneye, 1 Great Black Backed Gull, 4 Mallard, 8 Lapwing over moor.
12:30 - 14:00
Ian -- Edited by JimOrmerod at 08:58, 2006-11-27
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brambling at Gaghills 26/11/06
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1 female brambling was with around 20 chaffinches at our feeders at 09:00.
other minimum counts at our feeders this weekend: bullfinch 3m, 1f, greenfinch 40, goldfinch 6, song thrush 1, mistle thrush 1, blackbird 4, robin 2, blue tit 6, great tit 2, coal tit 1, long tailed tit 3, great s...
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New Line Res 12:30 21/11/06
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12 mallard, 22 black headed gull, 1 common gull, 3 moorhen, 7 blackbirds and not a lot of anything else.
kevin
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Owl sighting off the a56 - 18/11/2006
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i was driving up te m66......and just entered the section where the motorway ends and becomes the a56 at 7.45pm.....when an owl appeared andflew across the motorway......it appeared fairly light in colour..........not a tawny owl.......
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