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by MarkF
Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:56 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Fish id required
Replies: 3
Views: 1664

I'd say they're almost certainly chub - the Yarrow has loads of them!!

http://www.freshwater-fishing-guide.com/chub.html
by MarkF
Fri May 09, 2008 12:09 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Anglezarke Moor (Holts Flat, White Ledge Hill, Simms, LMC)
Replies: 2
Views: 1570

Thanks Neil - I managed to get the sound off my phone and have mailed it!
by MarkF
Wed May 07, 2008 7:29 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Anglezarke Moor (Holts Flat, White Ledge Hill, Simms, LMC)
Replies: 2
Views: 1570

Anglezarke Moor (Holts Flat, White Ledge Hill, Simms, LMC)

Grey Wags, Chaffinches, Blackbirds, Crows, Song Thrush, Blue tit, Great tit, Coal tit, Pigeons, Pheasant, Skylark, Lapwing, Curlew, Grasshopper Warbler, Black Headed Gull, Meadow Pipits, Grouse, Hare, Deer. Plus a medium sized bird, dark (black or brown) with a white rump/tail, which flew into Holts...
by MarkF
Thu May 01, 2008 11:21 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: White Coppice(10:30-12:30).
Replies: 3
Views: 1794

Never seen 'em on Black Brook, thanks!
by MarkF
Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:54 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: White Coppice(10:30-12:30).
Replies: 3
Views: 1794

Hi Rick, where was the Dipper?
by MarkF
Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:39 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Healey Nab 28 Apr 08
Replies: 0
Views: 1134

Healey Nab 28 Apr 08

Grasshopper Warblers in exactly the same spot as last week, just 50 yards up the track from Cliffs Farm. Usual garden birds. Pipits. Larks. Linnet (pair). Hare. Also from Pilkys Pile, I have heard rumours that you can apparently see Snaefell from here, if the conditions are right. I've never seen it...
by MarkF
Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:08 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Healey Nab 22/04/08
Replies: 0
Views: 898

Healey Nab 22/04/08

Curlew, lapwing (lots - very active just Chorley side of Grey Heights). No deer. Grasshopper Warbler! (posted in Summer Visitors). Oystercatcher heard in distance. Larks. Pipits. Kestrel. Several Willow Warbler. Pretty certain I saw a Redstart alone atop a fir - at first I thought it was a stonechat...
by MarkF
Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:02 pm
Forum: 2008 Summer Visitors First Dates
Topic: Grasshopper Warbler 22/04/08
Replies: 0
Views: 4221

Grasshopper Warbler 22/04/08

In the rough grass between Blue Waters and the back of Healey Nab. Clear, loud and persistent.
by MarkF
Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:29 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Yarrow Valley Park request
Replies: 0
Views: 909

Yarrow Valley Park request

River Yarrow - between Drybones and Duxbury - here : http://tinyurl.com/2lphvv A huge plastic bag full of small polystyrene "figure of eights" has been dumped in the river here :evil: It's only just started leaking out, but over the next few days it will empty and foul up the river complet...
by MarkF
Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:20 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Bufflehead on Kem Mill Pond
Replies: 3
Views: 1564

Very funny :D
by MarkF
Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:20 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Lead Mines Clough 31/03/08
Replies: 1
Views: 1145

Brians thread about his garden jogged my memory - saw 2 or 3 pipistrelles on the same trip.
by MarkF
Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:05 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Lead Mines Clough 31/03/08
Replies: 1
Views: 1145

Lead Mines Clough 31/03/08

7-8pm, usual garden birds, still no grey wagtail in Limestone Brook (they used to always be there!). 11 curlew and 5 hares. Larks, pipits. A lamb woke up as I passed it, and it thought I was its mum - it followed me bleating for a couple of minutes or so!
by MarkF
Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:43 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Anglezarke - Alance Bridge to Simms, then Stronstrey Bank
Replies: 3
Views: 1771

Didn't look like a Muscovy but was probably a "farm duck" of some sort. It certainly wasn't the Bufflehead, anyway :) Seemed to have an Aylesbury duck's head, and a pied body. The Goosander was on Yarrow Reservoir. The Goldeneye was at the start of the path to Lead Mines Clough - probably ...
by MarkF
Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:29 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Anglezarke - Alance Bridge to Simms, then Stronstrey Bank
Replies: 3
Views: 1771

Anglezarke - Alance Bridge to Simms, then Stronstrey Bank

Oystercatcher, Goosander and Female Goldeneye (was this the one that Tony saw on a Heapey Lodge on Monday?) between Alance Bridge and Meeting of the Waters. Loads of pipits, very active. Larks. Great and LT Tits. Stronstry Bank - Buzzard, Curlew, usual garden birds. Also on Anglezarke Reservoir, a s...
by MarkF
Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:47 pm
Forum: 2008 Recent Sightings Submissions
Topic: Bits
Replies: 0
Views: 864

Bits

Checking out footpaths today, saw a few bits and pieces - Goldcrest near Clayton Quarry. 20+ lapwing on the River Darwen just N of Hoghton Gorge. 2 Oystercatcher in Heapey near the Trig. Grey Wagtail on brook in Plock Wood. Loads of blackbirds kicking off, not much more though, certainly no larks, c...

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