• Canada goose - 148 on Holden Wood
• mallard - 7 on Holden Wood
• teal - 7 on Holden Wood and 11 on Calf Hey
• cormorant - 13 to 16 birds present on Holden Wood and Ogden
• grey heron - 1 on Holden Wood and 1 on Ogden
• great crested grebe - 1 on Ogden & 2 on Calf Hey
• sparrowhawk - 1 over Heap Clough and 1 over Holden Vale
• buzzard - calling bird at Holden Wood, then later 3 birds seen soaring over Hutch Bank & half an hour later 1 soaring over the church at Holden Wood
• kestrel - 1 on the hillside at Ogden
• lapwing - just a single at Calf Hey
• black headed gull - c25 up the valley
• lesser black backed gull - juv on Holden Wood
• great black backed gull - adult on Ogden
• green woodpecker - 1 at Holden Wood & 1 at Calf Hey
• great spotted woodpecker - calling adult and a juv at Calf Hey
• magpie - c8
• jay - 2 at Holden Wood, 1 at Ogden and 1 at Calf Hey
• jackdaw - c16
• carrion crow - c25
• raven - 1 harassed by a carrion crow near Calf Hey
• goldcrest - family party near the car park and  c20 in a mixed flock on the other side of the res
• blue tit - family party at Holden Wood
• great tit - c5 in mixed flock at Calf Hey
• coal tit - c10 in mixed flock at Calf Hey
• skylark - 1 at Ogden
• sand martin - c8 at Calf Hey
• swallow - c16 at Calf Hey
• house martin - min 100 over the valley
• long tailed tit - family party at Holden Wood
• nuthatch - 2 calling birds near the houses at Calf Hey and 2 in mixed flock on the other side of the res
• treecreeper - 1 at Calf Hey in mixed flock
• wren - 13
• blackbird - just 2 at Holden Wood
• dipper - 1 at Holden Wood
• robin - 16
• stonechat - 1pr and 2 juvs at Calf Hey
• dunnock - 1 at Holden Wood and a family party at Calf Hey
• grey wagtail - 2 at Holden Wood and 3 at Calf Hey
• pied wagtail - 3 at Calf Hey
• meadow pipit - c12
• chaffinch - 4 at Calf Hey
• greenfinch - 4 at Holden Wood
• goldfinch - just 5 seen
• reed bunting - 2 at Holden Wood and 1 at Ogden

the walk home produced the following

• siskin - 6 over Ravenshore
• starling - 62 over Snig Hole and 24 at EBSW
• pied wagtail - c150 at EBSW
• dipper - 3or 4 between Ewood Bridge and Townsendfold & 1 at Warth
• grey wagtail - 1 at Townsendfold
• little grebe - 2 adults and 2 juvs on Holmes Terrace Lodge
• moorhen - 2 on Holmes Terrace Lodge
• house martin - 10 over Rawtenstall & c50 over Waterfoot

cheers Kevin