Calderdale Birds

Ringby Lane mid afternoon. The top fields have really gone off the boil since everything was weed-killed and ploughed, then sown down entire...

My mum was getting the bus home this afternoon and mentioned she saw a bird on the berry trees in George's Square which when described s...

The drizzle started to set in as soon as I got to Wainstalls this morning, then the mist, so conditions weren't good. They were even wor...

A Dipper in the stream under the bridge by the 'catty' pub was a decent start this afternoon. Also in the dean 2 Little Owls, 8+ Sto...

Very little seen for most of the walk due to heavy fog. But a grey squirrel seemed to be hibernating under the lip of the east facing side ...

3 SEO's  out hunting  this afternoon in the thick fog and fading light One made a kill and obligingly landed on a post around 40yrd aw...

Hope you all have a great Christmas. Still a few decent birds being reported despite the poor weather and with it being dark so early in t...

A small flock of Brambling in Centre Vale Park this afternoon was a nice find, looked like 10-12 birds but very mobile along the path neares...

I sent the picture of the suspected White-tailed Eagle to world raptor expert Dick Forsman and he seems happy that the bird in question is i...

There were still 6 Crossbills in the plantation at Walshaw Dean yesterday.

Over the canal yesterday near the marina in Todmorden a big brown female Sparrowhawk inches behind a Song Thrush which got away. It flew hig...

Poor weather last few days but still a few birds about locally. 21st  Dec - Peregrine on and off  flying around and on the top of Dean Clou...

All from JM   Redwing  Kingfisher (and below looks to be disgourging a pellet)   And some more from John M at Ogden and Coach...

From Roger Ranson   Some details about our Islay trip in February 2019 in case any Calderdale  birders would like to join us. ...

Ogden - 25 Redpoll along the west bank (MM) Also from last week a flock of c30 Brambling feeding along the reservoir weedy embankments (JM...

Mixenden Reservoir 1 Cormorant and not much else ! Soil Hill 1 Snipe 1 Grey Heron 1 Blackbird 1 Kestrel 18 Magpies by the small shel...

Following on from numerous recent sightings of a cormorant on a lamppost in Mytholmroyd, a couple of Hebden Bridge Birders members have repo...

Last Friday whilst on my way to a concert I received a call of a possible White-tailed Eagle seen flying out of Calderdale over Buckstones ...

No sign of the Red-crested Pochard on Cold Edge Dams today, we checked ever dam. Did have 2 Goldeneye, 2 Tufted Ducks, 1 Reed Bunting and a ...

Plantation mainly 22 Canadas and lots of Mallard and a Dipper in the top east dam but tried the woodland after I drew a blank trying to fin...