Like the blog Ian. We had a family holiday in Cala Galdana a couple of years and the most seen bird from our apartment were pied flycatcher. Cala Llonga in Ibiza a year later was a great place for fish diving Audoin's gulls.

7.30-8.30pm - dozen house martin, 2 swift and 3 swallow around the church. Only a pr of mallard on the river, skein of 18 Canada geese over, plenty of pigeon and corvid, lapwing (3), single herring & LBB gull, sg thrush, GSW, blackcap (2), common whitethroat. On coming to a field full of very fr...

In the absence of the Eyes Lane flood, Marshside was the place for a wader fix - BT godwit, little stint, ruff, curlew sandpiper all in full summer plumage, also avocet, redshank, greenshank, little egret. Out at Hesketh Marsh, arctic tern, great white egret and many more avocet (40+) on the east ma...

15 swifts together over the RSPB car park at Marshside early this morning, they are about, just not many in Chorley (yet).

phew, I thought it was just my dodgy observational skills..........

12.30-1.15pm: Buzzard (3, incl 1 fending off a lapwing), LBB gull, sparrowhawk (calling and in flight), swift (2 high above fields between H Bibi & Coppull), common whitethroat (3), blackcap, chiffchaff (3), bullfinch (2), reed bunting. Lepiodoptera: green-veined white, speckled wood Odonata: 4-...

Birdguides has a reported black stork over Adlington at 15.30 today.

8.00am - cricket pitch: mistle thrush, linnet (2), goldfinch (3), c whitethroat (in dried up lodge) Goit: blackcap, garden warbler, dipper Hatherlea: song thrush, more blackcap (3/4) Wheelton Moor: skylark (4), meadow pipit (loads), stonechat Drinkwaters: wheatear, red grouse (heard towards Round Lo...

Two at Marshside this morning, so they are on their way John

8.15-11.15am - from Nook Lane end: Canada goose (2), shelduck (8), mallard, various gulls following the plough, grey (4) and RL partridge (2), buzzard (3 incl one with a distinctive notch in its wing that kept appearing all over the mosses), kestrel, raven mobbing a buzzard (was told that a family o...

5.30-7.30pm: circular walk starting at R Yarrow (St Mary's Eccleston) to Croston and back through Tinckler's Lane fields - lapwing (20+) chancing it on a ploughed field, mandarin duck (pair) flew over, RL partridge (2), Canada goose (4) by a Tinckler's field pond, kestrel, collared dove, song thrush...

7.45-11.30am - plenty of miles but not plenty of birds. On Withnell Moor: cuckoo on a fence beyond Solomon's Temple accompanied by 3 m pipit - later calling from Withnell quarry, Canada goose (2) over, curlew (3), c snipe (2 singing, not the drumming song), lapwing (2), good numbers of m pipit &...

6.30-11.30am - curlew (2 feeding in field), oystercatcher (2), 5 tufties with the mallards on H Bullough reservoir, GC grebe and 2 greylag on Anglezarke Res, gr heron (2), stock dove, cuckoo showing and calling in several places (are there more than 2?), jay, song and mistle thrush, grey and pied wa...

11.45-12.30pm - flood receeding fast so even walkers can now cross. Immature mute swan (on Douglas), gr heron, shelduck (14), LBB gull (48), BH gull (5), buzzard, oystercatcher, lapwing (8), redshank (2), greenshank, c sandpiper dropped on to bank of Douglas before relocating onto the flood, ringed ...

I live on Gillibrand N off YV Way and was thinking exactly the same thing. I have an online account with the Council and have sent a complaint to their grounds and maintenence dept and will post their reply. You can set up your own account by going to www.chorley.gov.uk