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Swifts
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3 swifts north over Ewood Bridge this morning. Other odds'n'sods today: About 100 hirundines over the sewage works am. Mostly swallows but c30 house martins Bubbling curlews Alden and Musbury (bottom of valley) Singing wheatear Alden and a pair (male chacking) Musbury Blackcaps, chiffchaffs an...
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Great Grey Shrike, Musbury Valley, 22nd April
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Like the subject says! I had 3 great views of the bird over a period of 30 mins before it disappeared. It was right at the furthest end of the Rossendale Way, where the valley narrows and the path comes back down the other side of the valley, below what is shown on the OS map as Musden Head Moor. It was in a bush...
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Grane, 21st April 2018
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06:30-10:00 G.C.Grebe, pair on Holden Wood, 3 on Ogden & single on Calf Hey, Cormorant, 1 on Ogden, Grey Heron, 1 on Holden Wood, 1 on Calf Hey, Canada Goose, c12 pair inc moor top and sitting birds in the quarries, Teal, pair on Calf Hey and in Jamestones, Mallard, c20, Tufted Duck, pair in Jameston...
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Clowbridge Res 20th April '18.
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11-30 - 2.30. Female Ring Ouzel around small pump house, SE corner of res. 2 reeling Grasshopper Warbler (1 each end of res), 2 LRP, 3 Sand Martin, 6+ W Warbs, 2 Buzzard, 4 Mallard. No Stonechat seen this spring up there but I may be missing them?? Bob / Dave you seen any?? Pic today of Gropper..
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Cuckoo. Grane 21st April ‘18.
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Cuckoo reported singing top end of Calf Hey on morning of 21st April. Report come from This is Helmshore Facebook page.
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Rooks 2018, 22nd April 2018
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Hi everyone, managed to get to most of our rookeries over the weekend with the following totals: Healey (Rochdale Road) 11 Crawshawbooth 36 Peersclough 13 Water 25 Broadclough 37 Rook Hill 34 Rawtenstall 1 A...
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Clowbridge, 21st April 2018
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19:30-20:30 Mallard, 3, Kestrel, 1 hunting behind boat house, Moorhen, 1 on Limy, Curlew, 1 calling south of res, Skylark, 3 singing plus calling bird, Swallow, 2, Meadow Pipit, c4, Willow Warbler, 3 in car park, Grasshopper Warbler, 1 reeling between boat house & south bay, Jackdaw, c300 to ro...
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Cheesden Valley, 21st April 2018
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14:00-16:00 Canada Goose, 4 pairs, Buzzard, 2 pairs, Kestrel, pair plus a single, Pheasant, c4 calling birds, Snipe, single flushed off Harden Moor, Lapwing, just 2 pairs, Curlew 3 or 4 pairs; good numbers, L.B.B.Gull, c40 over off AMR, Stock Dove, pair, Skylark, c8 singing birds, Swallow, 2 chas...
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Cheesden/Buckhurst/Ashworth Moor.
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1830/ 2100 hrs light northerly, 14 degrees, sunny. Of note....no great numbers of any species. Curlew....at least six feeding and displaying. Wheatear.....five males, one female. Meadow Pipit....well spread. Skylark....singing and displaying Stonechat....one pair feeding Willow Warble...
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Reedsholme19/4/18
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1st Blackcap at Woodcroft St this morning + 1 Nuthatch and pr Long-tailed Tits Kestrel on hillside on W. side of valley Grey Wagtail in river, otherwise quiet despite the sunshine. Bob.
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Over night arrivals..
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19th April. 3 new W Warbler singing this morning in c/booth plus a new Blackcap. All Folly tip and Folly Clough, Hardmans Ruin area.
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Reedsholme 18/4/18
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Goldcrest w/nest material 1 Swallow high to S. 1m Sparrowhawk Pr Grey Wagtail - Leabrook Chiffchaff singing - Leabrook 1 Treecreeper - Leabrook on 17/4/18 Whitaker Park - singing birds of note 2 Nuthatch calling 2 Song Thrush 4+ Blackbird Pr Goldfinch 3+ Chaffinch No migrants here yet Oakenhead Woo...
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C/booth 18th April ‘18.
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Had a decent walk/ search around usual W Warb territories today in c/booth and not a single one! Only 1 Blackcap singing also. But noticed 2 House Martins over Goodshaw Lane at 12 noon and 6 H martins over same area at 4.30 this afternoon. Plus 1 Swallow. I cant remember ever, in 45 yrs of birding in c/boot...
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Clowbridge, 16th April 2018
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20:15-20:45 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 reeled briefly behind The Boathouse, Jackdaw, c500 to roost at New Laithe. Regards, David Nuttall.
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AMR etc
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Ashworth Moor Res 1 common sandpiper, 1 white wagtail (plus 5 or 6 pied), 1 male wheatear, 1 bubbling curlew. 1 mallard, 2 black-headed gulls, 3 herring gulls only things on the water. Moors AMR to Whinberry Naze via Cowpe Moss, Cowpe Lowe 3 ring ouzels Cragg Quarry. 2 curlews flying east the only ones s...
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Rawtenstall to EBSW 15/04/2018
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Rawtenstallrook - 1 in a tree at Longholme Methodist & 1 stood on a nest nearby Groundwork willow warbler - 1chiffchaff - 2grey wagtail - 1 male Holmes Terrace Lodgelittle grebe - 1Canada goose - 3 prmallard - 3m & 1fmoorhen - 1nuthatch - 1 K Steels to Ewood Bridgebuzzard - 1pr soaring over by...
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Grane, 15th April 2018
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08:00-12:00 G.C.Grebe, 2 on Holden Wood, Cormorant, 4 in trees at Holden Wood, Grey Heron, 1 over the valley, Mallard, c12, Canada Goose, c60, many paired up, several sitting birds, Buzzard, 2, Sparrowhawk, female up the valley, Kestrel, 3 together and probably 5 seen in total, Pheasant, 1 called,...
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Plunge, 14th April 2018
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16:30-18:30 Mallard, pair, Buzzard, single bird soaring high over the valley, Curlew, calling bird from moor top, L.B.B.Gull, c6 over, Stock Dove, single bird flew across the valley, Skylark, c6, a couple in song and hopefully more on the tops, Meadow Pipit, c20, several in display, Pied Wagtail,...
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Clowbridge, 14th April 2018
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08:30-10:00 G.C.Grebe, 2, possibly a pair, Cormorant, 2 on 'U'-Boat, Grey Heron, 2 flew up the valley north, Canada Goose, c12, Mallard, c8, Common Scoter, flock of 6 (5 males) in the middle of the res. Flew around for a while before landing back on res. Kestrel, 1 hunting rough grasslands, Pheasant,...
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Reedsholme 14/4/18
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Afternoon - 1pr Bullfinch. 1 Goldcrest in same conifer as last 3 occassions. 1 Buzzard over w/ 1 Raven in attendance. Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Wren, Dunnock, Wood Pigeon all in song. Decent numbers of House Sparrows hereabouts in gardens, c10 prs. Bob.
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Stubbins to Ewood Bridge
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Overcast becoming brighter, calm 8 then 12 degrees, 0830/1130. Of note.... First Swallow and Willow Warbler for me, both in Chatterton. House Sparrow population in Chatterton excellent. Chiffchaff.....several in song Sand Martin.....4/3/6 over Irwell Vale Three more Swallow at Ewood Bridge...
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Mostly Clowbridge
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Clowbridge today 2 little ringed plovers, 2 great crested grebes, 2 goosanders, 2 cormorants, 2 black-headed gulls, 2 bubbling curlews to the north and west of the res, 2 willow warblers around the res plus another 3 in the plantations to the north, 4 redpolls Limy Lane On the way back 2 lapwings Green...
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Grane etc 11/4
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Merlin (brown one I think an immature male) from Holden Wood north straight over hill. Nothing else unusual around and no summer migrants on a full lap. Great spotted woodpeckers at Calf Hey car park and Heap Clough, 4/5 yaffling green woodpeckers. Curlews both sides of valley. 2 pairs teal and 3 gre...
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More Willow Warblers
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Big increase in willow warbler numbers today with at least 9 singing birds heard (2 around sewage works, 2 on the way up to Haslingden,1 nr Pike Law, 3 between Top of Slate and Stone Fold, 1 nr Goodshaw Fold). Otherwise migrant numbers appeared much lower than yesterday - only about 5 swallows and 1 or 2...
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River/EBSW/Grane/Cribden 8/4/18
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One male common scoter Calf Hey. Other waterfowl today - 2 great crested grebes, 3 teal, 1 cormorant and a few moorhens HWR, pair tufted duck back on Jamestones. 20 golden plovers above Jamestones heading N towards (over?) the moors. Curlews bubbling south of HWR and north of Jamestones - perhaps a fe...
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Above Woodcroft, Crown Farm and Greenfold.. 8th April '18.
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Only 2 Curlew seen, no Lapwing or Snipe seem to be breeding on fields that used to have decent numbers on them years ago. Loads of corvids on the other fields which have been muck spread on. Unusually large number of Ravens up there. A MINIMUM of 15 were soaring around together, croaking, tumbling and di...
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Brambling C/booth. 8th April '18.
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There has been a few Bramblings coming to our feed station this last week. 3 Males, all singing to each other, on Monday 2nd and numbers seem to have risen to 11 today. Most seem to be Males with only 2 Females been seen. On a down side.. a number of Brown Rats have appeared, even coming out in the daytime and...
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EWBS and circuit 8 4 18
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EWBS and circuit Swallow c30 Sand Martin c20 House Martin 1 Willow Warbler 1 Blackcap 1 Kingfisher 1 Grey Wagtail 2 pair Buzzard 2 Dipper 1 Goldfinch 6+4+2 singles Chaffinch c6 Robin c10 Dunnock 2 B H Gull 4 Blue Tit and Great Tit Bullfinch1 Canada Goose 1pair Mallard c10 Chiffchaff 1 at ground work Pete...
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Reedsholme to Greenfold 7/4/18
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09:00 hrs - rain and more rain. Goldcrest, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Chaffinch, Robin, Wren, Dunnock all singing at Reedsholme Dipper at Leabrook Raven calling above Heightside lane + Skylark in song from hilltop. Flock of c50 Fieldfare w/3 Redwing & 3 Starling, on pasture nr Bottomley Bank far...
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Swallows
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Around 5.30 this evening several small groups of swallows around Ewood Bridge and over the sewage works. Biggest gathering 14 birds but I suspect rather more than this altogether (no other hirundines and nothing else unusual between here and Rawtenstall). Andy
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