Calderdale Birds

'Continental' Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis - juvenile. The bird does not look bulky (on average P. c. carbo is heavier), ...

 Muscovy Duck

 Stock Dove

I had a surprise this morning whilst I was checking out some sites around Ogden. Steve C sent me a phone recording of a bird singing in Shro...

 Whitethroat female carrying food

 Reed Bunting male Pied Wagtail juvenile

 2 Meadow Pipits looking pale in the bright sunlight 

 A lot of good work gone on here to make good use of a flood plane near the River Calder. Just need some rain ! Common  Sandpiper on the riv...

One of a brood of 6 young Moorhens Adult Coots with brood of 9 young! And there is another brood of 4 young Coots

 Barnacle Goose Stonechat: breeding and non-breeding males

 I had a lovely couple of hours at Cromwell Bottom yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Half an hour of that time was spent watching a f...

 There is one Dunlin here, but what about the other two? It looks as if one bird has a white rump.

 Any thoughts on this pipit? The bill and posture do not seem right for Meadow.

 Male Reed Bunting 2 Common Sandpipers. Also 4 at Whiteholme, and 1 in Byron Edge drain

 Little Ringed Plover Greylag Goose pair with 3 young

 Can anyone see enough on these photos to identify these 2 waders? They were taken at the limit of my 30x zoom pocket camera. Sanderling?

Thanks Dave, photo of it leaving yesterday evening

Mid afternoon PD located a  Great White Egret along the shoreline. Several of us got up there to see it and for some of us a first for Calde...

Several local birders have spent  time in recent weeks looking for summer migrants. I spent some time, as did NK, this morning doing the sam...

 Moulting Buzzard