A steady morning on Soil Hill with little moving until 08:50 when all of a sudden the skies above Halifax were filled with Pink-footed Geese. In the following 20 minutes I saw five large skeins all heading southeast and picked up by various observers across the area. But after 09:10 I only had one more flock, a small group of 15, which brought the morning total up to 931 individual birds as counted from the, albeit distant, photos I took of the flocks. No skeins noted in the Aire Valley today, all the birds I saw were heading down the Calder Valley.
After this I went to Ringstone to look at the excellent assortment of wildfowl there, found by AC. For me the highlights were the three drake Pochard, my first in Calderdale since 2008, but the 13 Wigeon, 12 Teal and a Shoveler made for quite a spectacle, at least locally. Nice to see AC, AT and PD up there as well.
-Pink-footed Geese
-Pochard
In total managed 42 species today, the full list here; https://ebird.org/checklist/S275198635
Trektellen count here; https://www.trektellen.org/count/view/767/20250924
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