Calderdale Birds

Spotted flycatcher tonight.  It's a bumper year so far up here.

Has anybody else noticed what appears to be a shortfall of swifts this year? I've only had 2 so far in my part of Elland.Just wondering ...

Cuckoo still singing in the upper Dean this afternoon with no other summer visitors other than Willow Warblers, a Blackcap, Swifts and Swall...

House Martin Survey House Martins are in serious decline and this has been especially notable in Calderdale in recent years with a big...

3 male whitethroat in a singing battle this morning close to the house, including one in the garden. Blackcap seem very evident this year to...

My son regularly has 5 siskin coming to his feeders. 2 pairs and a male. He lives in Cornholme near the main road.

Not much to report - lots of common stuff (willow warbler, song thrush, chiffchaff, curlew) but not a squeak from the (currently) less commo...

Finally got a record shot of one of the Cuckoos in the Dean.  Plenty of Willow Warblers.  Box number 6 has fallen to the ground and found a ...

I thought perhaps just a chance of Sedge Warbler singing in the old sewage beds, now overgrown with a small area of  phragmites along with w...

I tried the scrub area at the back of Park Wood Crematorium where Lesser Whitethroat has been recorded in the past. Nothing doing though the...

Posting from BL - Hen Harrier Day Peaceful Protest Sunday 7 August, 2016, Dunsop Bridge in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire. http://rapto...

We checked a lot of woodland areas today between the crags Midgehole car park and Blake Dean and returning on the other side of the valley t...

Lovely afternoon in the dean trying to find a few summer migrants 1 Cuckoo 1 Grey Wagtail 1+ Green Woodpecker 2 Blackcap c10 Willow War...

A pair of garden warblers were finally back on territory today! Although the whitethroat seems to have quietened right down. A pair of tree...

On the Yellowhammer hunt today, there were 3 calling from the hedgerows near Hartshead church - about 100 yards out of area, and about half ...

An hour or so this morning first thing to check the former reclaimed landfill site between Shroggs Road and Brackenbed Lane. Just a few war...

Cuckoo reported calling on Thursday afternoon near Cat I'th Well by SF.

On a walk to White Holme Drain, I heard a whimbrel calling from somewhere on White Holme Moss.  Also, raven, common sandpiper, pair of tufte...

I went out looking for Tree Pipit this afternoon, without success, and ended up playing pee-po with this Tawny Owl instead.!

Called up there late morning for about 40 minutes. 1 drake Goosander 1 LR Plover skulking around the shoreline and in and out of the veget...