Sun 1/2 13:15-16:15 hard slog from 'normandie flats' to res through snow and muddy tracks sunny clear bitter n breeze
Highlights
Raven 2 displaying rolling

Cormorant 1

G heron 1 imm

Goosander 2f

Teal 7 at least 1 m

Stock dove 2

Bullfinch 1f

1 willow tit in mixed flock with goldcrest great, blue & coal tits just inside Rossendale (near the chimney) when seen yesterday. Thought it was worth mentioning due to the scarcity of this bird in the area and no doubt this flock will move across the boundary into Greater Manchester

cheers Kevin

Deeply Vale itself is outside - the others are in but you never said thats where you saw them, just Deeply Vale

Dave

Thanks Dave but surely it depends where you are in in the Valley and the lower section I was in is in Rochdale and therefore GM.
Have a look at the OS Map.
The Buzzard was over Stand Lees farm and the Snipe in the part of Cheeden brook which is in Rochdale.
Pete

Great Stuff Pete, though should be posted in 'Out-of area' as a) Deeply Vale is not Rochdale and b) its not in Greater Manchester

Dave

Had a long walk from Ashworth Moor Res down into Deeply Vale this afternoon
1 Buzzard being mobbed by 3 Carrion crows
1 Snipe
1 Kestrel
15+ Fieldfares
4 Chaffinch
2 Greenfinch
3 Long tailed Tits
3 Robins
1 Grey Heron
4 Canada
2 Feral Pigeons
4 Wood Pigeon
2 Lapwing
2 Jay
6 Magpie
8 Meadow Pipits

Pete

-- Edited by Pete Stevens on Sunday 29th of March 2009 04:11:58 PM