Calderdale Birds

Out with SC this PM. Not much at Cold Edge Dams, 1 Tufted Duck being the highlight? Moved on to next site and had 3 Common Buzzards, 2 Kestr...

Had a bit of a clear out tonight and have a lot of Birdwatch magazines heading for the recycle bin, if anyone wants them let me know

1 pair of House Martins on the mill at Wainstalls this afternoon and young birds looking out of the nest. 4 Wheatears on walls adjacent to L...

Final reminder for those who are still outstanding in their payment for the next round of grapevine texts. Anyone who is planning on droppin...

At last lots of birds this PM. The place was crawling with small passerines, 2 Spotted Flycatchers, 20+ Willow Warblers, 30+ Long-tailed Tit...

The second video about the Calderdale Seeds Project is now online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQQyCnpHWo&feature=channel_page Hop...

c.120 house martins gathering by Todmorden swimming baths early evening

2 f Goosanders and 1 Cormorant today

Tree Pipit over Northowram at 8 am (AC) Whiteholme Res'r 10 Ringed Plover and 2 Dunlin there between 11 am until and 3 pm

Out again tonight with Roy, at least 800 BHGs, 5 Common Gulls and 3 LBBGs at Ringstone. Also GC Grebe 50+ Lapwings and the White Grey Lag/fa...

Syke Lane - 40+ Lesser Black Backed Gulls at 3 pm this afternoon in nearby fields. Also c200 Black-headed Gulls took off from the adjacent f...

2 Swifts through across lunch time today

At last a good bird at Roils Head. Usually this site is good for passerines in August and I sometimes check it out twice a day, but this yea...

First visit this autumn to my watch point produced 1 Grey Heron, 2 Goosanders, 4 or 5 Kestrels, 2 Stock Doves, 4 LBBGs, 2 Swifts, 4 House Ma...

3 Ringed Plovers in the ploughed field opposite Ringstone Edge Reservoir this evening. 1 Great C Grebe and 3 Moorhens at Ringstone. c3000 Sw...

Nick will be leaving Calderdale at the weekend after a summer season here working on Twite for the RSPB recovery project, this is his second...

Black Redstart this afternoon in the pouring rain around the farm opposite the wind-farm car park (Withens Head Farm). Probably the same bir...

Juvenile Spotted Flycatcher In the valley leading up to Clough Head from National Trust car park this morning; 5+ Spotted Flycat...

Following on from a comment on an earlier post in which Dave Sutcliffe suggested the next good bird at Whiteholme might be a Grey Plover I h...

I checked the Black Redstart spot for an hour and a half this afternoon without success. Just a Willow Warbler and 5 Blackbirds in the shru...