Juvenile Sparrowhawks were heard hunger calling at two locations approx 1.8 km (1.1 miles) apart. So certainly two different broods (see the Species in Focus post on Sparrowhawk in the GM Atlas section of the forum).
These were in two different tetrads: SD81Y Broadley (actually in Rossendale) and SD81X Shawclough where two birds were glimpsed flying through the trees and calling.
Other species seen / heard: Chiffchaff Bullfinch Jay - 3 Grey Heron - standing in tree
Steve
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The Watergrove Skyline (January 2010) - before desecration.
An early afternoon walk in miserable weather (+8C, wind and drizzle) produced the following:
Canada Goose sitting on nest (ON) Great Spotted Woodpecker Wood Pigeon sitting on nest in hawthorn (ON) in SD81X Shawclough Robin - 8 singing (S) Wren 3 S Blackbird 8 S Song Thrush 1 S Willow Warbler 7 S Chiffchaff 2 S Blackcap 3 S
Great Tit carrying food (FF) appeared to be struggling to squeeze into its nest hole in a wall. The first confirmed breeding record for this species in SD81T Prickshaw
Magpie flew out from nest (ON) Chaffinch 4 S
Steve
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The Watergrove Skyline (January 2010) - before desecration.
usuals on lodge. 2 Canada Goose 4 Mallard 1 Moorhen
around the dell plenty of blue + great tits, robins, blackbirds, chaffinch 1 Coal Tit c3 singing chiffchaff 4+ singing Willow Warbler 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 noisy Green Woodpecker 2+ Jackdaw, c10 Carrion Crow, c10 Woodpigeon + Small White, Orange Tip and Brimstone Butterflies
-- Edited by Charles Farrell on Saturday 23rd of April 2011 02:52:28 PM
-- Edited by Charles Farrell on Saturday 23rd of April 2011 10:28:45 PM
12.00-1.00
usuals on lodge.
2xcanada
2xmallard
1xmoorhen
around the dell
4xjays
2xtreecreeper
1xdipper
2xheron
1xchiffchaff
plenty of blue + great tits
Went into dell from shawclough side down to lodge.(3-4.30)
2x canada(back again) 2xmoorhen 2xmallard Looks like they all found a partener Kestrel (being mobbed by a crow) Green woodpecker(heard) Plenty of the usuals.
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 18th of March 2011 09:09:00 PM
We don't get enough records from Healey Dell (once the haunt of Wood Warblers, even quite recently), so thanks, Danny, for those records. Any breeding records next year, the last of the national and local atlas, would really be appreciated.
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Judith Smith
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Lightshaw hall Flash is sacrosanct - NO paths please!
after a walk in the rain yesterday afternoon: some good sightings 1 cormorant 1 kingfisher 1 dipper all on fishing lodge. 1 dipper 3 grey wagtail on river. 1 buzzard in meadow. plus usual.
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 1st of April 2011 08:56:40 PM
