Lower Gorple Calderdales birding hotspot

A quick hike over yesterday and only 45mins by the dam wall with a pair of bins and no scope produced:-

9 Red Grouse - close to home on walk over

2 Redshank
1 Oystercatcher
4 Common sandpipers
8 Lapwing
1 Redpoll
1 Siskin - juv
4 Swallows
2 Pied Wagtail (incl 1 juv)
1 Grey Wagtail
min 2 Reed Bunting
1 Peregrine
1 SEO
1 Male Tufted Duck

and in good numbers the following

Blackbird
Mistle Thrush
Meadow Pipit
Curlew
Canada Goose
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
BH Gull
Pheasant

lots of shore line so more time and a scope could well add Jeff's Dunlin and who knows what else,
the other negative (if I being picky) is that I was there between 14:45 and 15:30, definately worth a look in an evening/early morning.

Perhaps not today though unless you take your water wings with you, lets hope the res doesn't fill up completely.