East Lancashire
Ornithologists’ Club
Information of the clubs activities in 2005 can be found towards the bottom of the page.
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Area covered: The area consists of the whole of the Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle and Ribble Valley Districts and those parts of Blackburn with Darwen not in the Irwell catchment. The area does not include the Rossendale District and has not done so for several years, nor any part of Yorkshire, even though these lie on Sheet 103.
Perhaps
the simplest guide to the club’s recording area is that the district
boundaries around its perimeter mainly follow watersheds.
Going clockwise; in the north-east the boundary cuts across the Ribble
catchment following the Lancashire-Yorkshire county boundary; in the east the
boundary lies between the catchment of the Calder and the catchments of the Aire
and Yorkshire Calder; in the south it lies between the Calder and Darwen and the
Irwell; in the south-west it runs down the River Roddlesworth and a small length
of the Darwen before once again cutting across the Ribble; in the west it lies
between the Loud and Brock; in the north-west and north it lies between the
Hodder and the Bleasdale Calder, Wyre and Lune.
The recording area thus includes the Ribble catchment from Alston and
Balderstone in the south to Nappa (between Paythorne and Hellifield) in the
north, the whole of the Calder and Hodder catchments and part of the Darwen
catchment.
Virtually
all of the area can be found on Sheet 103 - Blackburn and Burnley. However, a small part of the western edge of the Ribble Valley
District lies on Sheet 102 - Preston and Blackpool, a small part of the northern
edge lies on Sheet 98 - Wensleydale and Upper Wharfedale,
and a very small portion of the included part of the Blackburn with
Darwen District lies on Sheet 109 - Manchester. These are additions to the
club’s previous recording area. The
extreme north west corner of Sheet 103 is in the Lancaster District and no
longer forms part of the club’s recording area; the very small area of
Blackburn with Darwen on the southern edge of the sheet which lies in the Irwell
catchment is also no longer included. The
southern end of the Blackburn with Darwen District which lies on Sheet 109 and
in the Irwell catchment was never part of the club’s recording area.
THE
ELOC RECORDING AREA.
The bold outline shows Landranger Sheet 103.
Meetings
These
are held on the first Monday of each month at 7.30 p.m. in the school-room next
to St Anne’s Church, Barrowford Road, Fence, at Grid Ref. SD 824371.
(Turn off the A6068 at the Bay Horse at the SW end of the village;
entrance to the school is immediately opposite the pub car park).
Usually there is a talk given by a visiting speaker followed by
member’s verbal records of birds seen in the area during the previous month
and a short business session.
Other
Activities
The
club is affiliated to the RSPB, BTO, Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Lancashire
& Cheshire Fauna Society. Several
trips are organised during the year when members meet at pre-arranged locations
for a day’s birding together. Members
sighting a rare bird in the club area are requested to contact the Chairman or,
if he is not available, the Secretary, who will then arrange for other members
to be notified by a ‘telephone tree’ or e-mail. There is no charge for these
services.
Contact Details
Secretary:
Doug Windle, 39 Stone Edge Road, Barrowford, Nelson, BB9 6BB,
Tel 01282 617401, e-mail - Doug.Windle@care4free.net
Chairman:
Tony Cooper, 28 Peel Park Avenue, Clitheroe, BB7 1ET,
Tel 01200 424577, e-mail - tonycooper@beeb.net
Recorder:
Nigel Leeming, 12 Sykefield, Birch Court, Brierfield, Nelson, BB9 5NB,
Tel 01282 618187, e-mail -
nigelchris@fsmail.net
East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club.
Indoor Meetings 2005.
All meetings (except Aprils) will be held at St Anne's School Fence (next to the Church) at 7.30pm., Grid Ref. SD825372.
Field Trips - 2005.
All trips are to be held on a Saturday.