Blackstone Edge

Blackbird - at altitude 370 metres (1214 feet)

Whiteholme

Raven. Typical long-necked long-tailed silhouette

Whiteholme

Teal

Raven

Wheatear

Blackstone Edge

Canada Goose pair with 4 young

 

Whiteholme

Singing Wren

Wheatear

Teal

Blackstone Edge

Mallard female with 9 young

Whiteholme

Common Sandpiper

Blackstone Edge

Little Ringed Plover,  Common Sandpiper

Whiteholme

Whitethroat male. Sang briefly

Willow Warbler also present

Little Ringed Plover

Reed Bunting

Roe Deer

Blackstone Edge

1 of 3 Common Sandpipers

Skylark

Whiteholme (continued)

Greenland Wheatear male:

- pot bellied

- long wings

- short tail with broad black band

- strong supercilium

- brownish grey back

- underparts orange, deepest on breast and flanks

Whiteholme

Common Sandpiper

Little Ringed Plover

2 of 3 male Reed Buntings

Blackstone Edge

4 of 9 Linnets

Whiteholme

Kestrel male dust bathing

Baitings

1 of 11 singing Willow Warblers

Great Crested Grebes

Cromwell Bottom

 Had an hour to spare this afternoon. It was in the drizzle, very little singing other than Chiffchaffs, a couple of Blackcap, Song Thrush,  Blackbird, Wren ...

Ski-lake was almost empty apart from Grey Herons, 10 Herring Gulls and 8 LBB Gulls.

Elsewhere, mainly over the river near the weir I came across a few hirundines - 30+ House Martins, 20+ Swallows and c10 Sand Martins along with a pair of Goosander.

Shibden Valley

Singing Nuthatch

Shibden Park

Mallard female with 8 young