Checked the site this morning in view of 5 Common Scoters (found by JM) at Ringstone Reservoir earlier on. They are normally sea-duck though they quite often have a trans-pennine crossing between the Irish Sea and the North Sea. Invariably drakes seen in our area, occasionally female/immatures with them. Maybe brought down with those really heavy downpours yesterday and overnight.
Mixenden was quiet - just 16 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls 'loafing' around and very little else.
At home a Grey Heron flew over high at 08:30 >SE and a Sparrowhawk took a tit species out of our garden tree across lunchtime. Earlier on I failed to locate the usual Dippers at Dean Clough though the Hebble Brook was flowing pretty fast after thunderstorms and heavy overnight downpours. They would be there somewhere !
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