Calderdale Birds

A quick walk with my noisy kids in tow 1 garden warbler 4 willow warbler 4 chiffchaff 1 blackcap 2 bullfinch 20+ swifts overhead 12 swallow ...

brian!!!!!! got brians text and was up there in a flash-but no brian again seen on soil hill were : no ring ouzel 1 lrp and the usual suspec...

This afternoon in the drizzle! 1 Twite 1 Oystercatcher 1 Redshank 5 Common Sandpipers (probable 2 Great-black backed Gulls - immatures >S...

A pair of little owls likely breeding near Bradshaw. If Dishfish wants the location then please email me.

04/05/2008 am S>3 inc >5 Heavy rain by 0930hrs 15 Twite 1 Redshank 4 Common Sandpiper 6 Wheatear 1 Reed Bunt 2 House Martin >...

0510 - 0840 E 1-2 very dull overcast Shag 1 adult Cormorant 1 imm G Heron 3 Goosander 1 male L Grebe 1 Pool Kestrel 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Kittiwak...

2 linnets seen this morning 1 stock dove =) a first for the garden others of note: pair greenfinch 1 male chaffinch 2 blackbirds 3 starlings...

Walsden The churchyard was alive with birdsong this evening - Magpies notwithstanding - a blackbird on the gravestone is etched on the memor...

Fly Flats 1 adult Kittiwake came in from Oxenhope side with 5 B H Gulls. The gulls kept going >S and the Kit dropped in to rest on the re...

2 Grey Partridge 4 Twite 8 Linnet 2 Kestrels

1 grey wag on the res song thrush mallard graylag goose

Saturday 3rd May 7:30 - 9:45am 6 willow warbler 5 chiffchaff 1 cormorant on the ski lake - until the skiers arrived. 3 swift 1 swallow 5 gar...

1 Cuckoo yesterday singing in the upper dean.

Just over 80 text alerts sent out since 1st Feb! Good value for some goood birds I think! Please remember to send messages to Nick Carter in...

Notice the BTO ring on the right tarsus of the Pied Flycatcher(is this another Bolton Abbey bird I wonder - perhaps the returning male from ...

1 pair of kestrel also breeding in a cavity in large beech tree approx 100 m away.

At last a good bird this spring at Roils Head a LESSER WHITETHROAT found this evening feeding in larches on the north west boundarie just to...

11 male Blackcap 7 male Whitethroat 4 Garden Warbler 3 Willow Warbler 3 Chiff Chaff 2 Reed Warbler 30 Swift 3 Song Thrush 8 Linnet

2 Common Sandpipers 5 Twite - still putting Nyger seed down 2 Wheatears 2 Swallows 2 Pied Wagtails

This morning 1 Great Crested Grebe Several Willow Warblers c20 Swallows 1 Swift >NW