Cold Edge

Scaup: 4 juveniles

Cold Edge

Tufted Duck: 2 broods. Female + 3 young, female + 5 young

Cold Edge

Black-tailed Godwit

Halifax Railway Station

Siskin fledgling

Cold Edge

1 of 3 juvenile Stonechats

Ogden - 5th July

Tried this morning in the drizzle for yesterdays Black-tailed Godwit that was there at some point  yesterday. Gone now, just too late for it !

8 Grey Heron on the res'r shoreline along with 1 Cormorant and a single drake Tufted Duck. 

2 adult Herring Gulls and 25+ L B B Gulls to and fro along with 17 Black-headed Gulls.

Chiffchaff and a Willow Warbler also present along with at least 5 singing Blackcap and a Treecreeper.

3 Oystercatchers, 1 Curlew and then 14 Swallows, mostly juveniles passed through >W.

Cold Edge

Short-eared Owl

Tufted Duck female with 3 young

Bar Lane, Rishworth, 4 July

Its avian name is my feeble excuse for putting this wonderful Hummingbird Hawk-moth onto a bird blog. It hovers like a Hummingbird while it drinks nectar from a flower through its long tongue.

Fly Flatts

Tried hard this morning till noon for the summer plumage Black-tailed Godwit found by BS earlier in the day. In a strengthening wind up there I failed to relocate it and just about managed 1 Oystercatcher and 2 Common Sandpipers scoping from the top road watch-points. I suspected the bird had moved on.

I gather that NK relocated what was presumably the same bird later in the day at Ogden Water and a Little Egret turned up there too.

Whiteholme

Well camouflaged LRP

Whiteholme

Little Ringed Plover. This is a different bird from yesterday: the breast band is narrower, suggesting it is a female. The breast band of the (presumed) male yesterday was broader either side of the midline, giving a 'dickey bow' effect.

Common Sandpiper: adult and juvenile. The upperparts of the adult (lower bird) are plainer than those of the juvenile. The juvenile's upperparts have dark and light markings, and are lighter brown overall.