Jumble Hole - 6:00pm

Usual woodland stuff, but precious few migrants other than willow warb's and swallow.There's time yet I suppose.......

Whiteholme

2 "Commic" Terns flew west this afternoon. An addition to the Ringstone records for today is a Greenland Wheatear mid afternoon.

Ringstone Edge

Latest text message received from Ringstone quoted 5 Ringed Plovers and 12 Dunlin now present with "waders arriving all the time". This movement appears to have been mirrored at Thornton Moor res (just outside Calderdale) where David Barker also reported Dunlin and Ringed Plover.

Ringstone

12 Dunlin, 2 Oystercatchers and 1 Ringed Plover at Ringstone today (John Beaumont)

Cold Edge Dams

Despite the heavy rain managed to find a pair of Tufted Duck, 2 Common Sandpipers and a Redshank but very little else!

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Calderdale Birds

Fly Flats - yesterday am 28th April very very windy just two twite and a wheatear

Swifts

Two Swift flying N over Blake Dean on Sunday 24th April at around 9am. Has anyone had any earlier ones in Calderdale?

27 April

Colden - 8:00am

Cuckoo calling

Jumble Hole - this eve

2 Tawny owl - one feeding on ground
2 woodcock

Jumble Hole

Woodcock over calling tonight

Nestboxes

Between Nick, Graham and I we have now managed to get 25 boxes up at the 'woodland nr. Hebden Bridge'. Hope to get another doxen or so up by the weekend.

Have heard from RSPB warden in Wales that their male pied fly's are back singing already, so fingers crossed.

hi all

testing testing.4 widgeon and dunlin at gaddings dam yesterday.andy

A true treehugger. 

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Just checking to see if I can post also.

Private wetland site - 12:00

Single LRP on foreshore, along with lapwing
Swallow, mipits, c. 6 skylarks etc
2 curlew over, calling
8 or so lapwing mobbing corvid in marshy fields to east
2 willow warblers and a pair of grey partidge close to cottage on south side (partridge were more or less under pylon)

squacco duck (just a test)

Jumble hole clough this evening

Treecreeper
Dipper
Green woodpecker (h)
2 Willow warbler in scrub on underbank
Woodcock over calling
Usual woodland species

No sign of Monday's Harris hawk!

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