Calderdale Birds

Tree Pipit and Meadow Pipit (double click to enlarge) With thanks to David Crawshaw for this great photo of the two species together tak...

A report today (many thanks R and C or is it K?) of a pair of Ring Ouzel at Walshaw (middle res'r area) on Sunday 6th Oct feeding on ro...

A marsh harrier appeared low over fields as I was driving in the East of our recording area, close to where one has been loitering in the Br...

This afternoon along Hag Lane I went looking for late Swallows and House Martins in the sheltered part of the valley without success. Plenty...

This morning around the Res'r 1 G C Grebe (adult) 5 Goosander 2 ad L B B Gulls 9 B H Gulls 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Kestrel 3 Grey Wagtail...

A single redwing flew west mid afternoon. A raven was high over towards Hebden not long after.

It was a struggle to find anything up there this afternoon despite the favourable weather conditions and good visibility. 2 Kestrel 2 Cana...

A red legged partridge visited this lunch time and spent a little time perched in a bush. A first for our garden. see photo

My first estimate of c80 (miles out !!!!) Pink-footed Geese this morning at 11.30  >W turned out to be 123. A nice noisy skein and my fir...

No chance for any birding this weekend but 6 Swallows over the house this afternoon was nice. They went straight through due south. I have ...

Birds of Prey Me and my wife had our appetite whetted with a Peregrine and Marsh Harrier just out of our area yesterday  so we went up to ...

2 chiffchaff still around. Plenty of siskin flying about today. And there seemed to be a steady stream of pied wagtails over during the day,...

                                 Ogden leg ringed BHG.         Photos BS. Seen at Ogden last winter and now returned, this BHG was rin...

Photos of the Ruff 28-09-13 Ruff still there this morning.

Totally fogged off at Fly this afternoon and the same at Withens Head so called at mixenden on the way back home and that was worthwhile as ...

Just a post to say to everyone feel free to upload local bird photos onto the blog. It's very easy to do, and creates interesting conten...

Loads of shoreline still and some small islands of peat emerging at the southern end but still no migrant waders though 3 Lapwings were on t...

Chiff-chaff singing this morning at the back of the garden and seen briefly 2 Grey Wagtails >SE A few Chaffinches on the move on and of...

2 Parakeets or similar (Cockatiels?) flying around in Crow Wood Park,S/B this afternoon as I was leaving at 4.30. I did manage to find one...

10 Mallard 11 Teal 1 Tufted Duck 11 Canada Geese 1 unidentified small falcon over the moor Kestrel/Merlin but too far away to be sure. ...