Got a new bike, so I cycled the track from Lead Mines Clough to Hempshaws for starters: Canada Goose, Grey Wagtail, Curlew, Goldfinch, Meadow Pipit, Buzzard, Lapwing, Skylark, Black Headed Gull, Pheasant, Wheatear, Stonechat, Long Tailed Tit, Kestrel, Coal Tit, Nuthatch. Then off round Yarrow and Up...

Something up with the links but I did get this https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7641/166 ... e562_m.jpg which certainly looks like a wheatear to me... never seen one in a tree before, they're normally atop a bit of millstone grit

Went for wheatear on the dry stone walls but none about. Traipsed towards Old Rachel's and saw quite a few meadow pipits, lapwing nearby, oystercatcher over also. Loads of BHGs flying west at dusk as usual.

Was there this evening, walk round revealed the usual mallards, coots, moorhens, turdidae, plus heron, kingfisher and goldcrest.

The BTO are looking for house martin survey volunteers. http://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/house-martin-survey?dm_i=IG4,37Z6W,IUXHH8,BJABP,1 to quote: We know surprisingly little about House Martins despite the fact that they breed alongside us, using our houses on which to build a nest made of hu...

Thank you Brian I will contact the society and try and make contact. I've had contact from three descendants of ruined farms which is exciting stuff too.

Tawny also calling this evening near the Gillibrand Arms.

Common Bank Blue tit, great tit, nuthatch, coot, 4 goosander (1m 3f), 3 heron, blackbird, wren, s thrush, woodpigeon, chaffinch L Burch Meadows kestrel, song and mistle thrush, fieldfare, several reed bunting, many magpie YVP Big lodge 2 gc grebe, 10 tufted, many Canada geese, Coors, moorhen and mal...

Not a lot about, highlights being heron and goldeneye (m) on #3. single gc grebe on drive past watermans cottage. Moorhen on top of Alance Bridge feeding on seed left by visitors. Heron also overhead at Jepsons.

Today in an hour before dusk- Several rooks and jackdaws around Nick Hilton's bridge, plus gulls too far away - generally lots of black headed around. Leicester Mill Quarries and Anglezarke Nature Trail plenty long tailed / blue / great tit plus odd coal tit. Single goldeneye (male first winter) on ...

A bit more light this evening so a chance to start counting for me... Yarrow Reservoir Blue / great / coal tits and nuthatches all feeding on seed laid at Alance Bridge. 2 x goosander (m+f) together, who knows if a pair. Upper Rivvy Lots of black headed gulls and a couple of lesser BB's. Lower Rivvy...

I've got a website http://www.anglezarke.net on the go dedicated to our moorland area. Presently I've got quite a bit of info up there on the moorland ruins, and am working on other articles in the background such as natural history (what to see, where and when). I hope it's of interest to people, a...

Saw a few of the above there today, plus a single little grebe bobbing around the tern raft.

Two still present... hopping around Peewit Hall ruins near Jepsons Gate as of yesterday.

Apologies for the following reports not being particularly "recent" :) but I've been reading some of D.A.Owen's press clippings from the 1800's and found the following rather interesting: Chorley Standard, 9th June, 1866 Mr. John Taylor, farmer, of Rivington Lane, recently shot a bird in h...