River Ribble - Marles Wood to Dinckley Hall and Hurst Green

I went for walk along a short stretch of the River Ribble with two work colleagues today and this produced the follwoing birds:

• Female Goosander with seven young in tow
• 2 Dippers near the bridge
• Female Mallard with about ten ducklings
• Two drake Mallards
• Lots of swallows over the fields
• Curlew calling
• Chaffinch and Chiffchaff singing loudly in the woods near Stonyhust College
• Lots of unidentified warblers - still learning the calls
• Grey Heron over the river on the way home

I wrote the original report of these sightings on the Manchester Birding Forum