Whiteholme

Little Ringed Plover

Common Scoter pair

Great Crested Grebe 5

Blackstone Edge

Ringed Plover 2

Whiteholme

Merlin juvenile. Dick Forsman (1999, Raptors of E and ME) has a photo of a juvenile Merlin, and notes that there are dark streaks on the breast "turning to bars towards the flanks". This bird shows this feature. And I do not think an adult would have let me get as near as I did to this bird.

Also: Wheatear 1

Blackstone Edge

Ringed Plover juvenile

Also: Wheatear 1

Whiteholme

Meadow Pipit with 2 or 3 prey items

Common sandpiper

Blackstone Edge

Ringed Plover juvenile. Body more 'dumpy' than LRP, and rear not attenuated. Thicker bill. No yellow or pale buff orbital ring. Pale forehead visible in second photo.

Common sandpiper

Baitings

Chiffchaff

Grey Heron on shoreline exposed by falling water level

Whiteholme

Little Ringed Plover, (with Pied Wagtail juvenile). The narrow breast band indicates female

Solitary Black-headed Gull

Also:  1 Redshank, and 2 Swifts SW

Ringstone Edge, 22 July

Great Crested Grebe 2

Cormorant 5

Common Gull 1

Stock Dove 2

Ringstone Edge

Tufted Duck male

Teal 4

British Cormorant, P c carbo, immature. The rear edge of the yellow gular patch slopes forwards below the gape

Pheasant female

Kestrel male

Pied wagtail 2 juveniles

Magpie juvenile

Shibden Valley, 12 July

Juvenile House Martins