Calderdale Birds

 A beautiful humming bird hawk moth seen from our window in Walsden yesterday, flapping furiously round our car.  (Well, I know it's not...

Had a couple of visits to Whiteholme this week. The reservoir is full to the brim, with gallons flowing out of the overflow. However, the ce...

Juvenile Tufted Duck. (Thanks Dave S for pointing out that the bill size and shape are wrong for Little Grebe) Juvenile Skylark Barnacle Goo...

This afternoon, despite the threat of rain it did stay just about dry.  Walking alongside the River Calder, looking up above North Dean Wood...

Juvenile Wheatear  

21 of 23 Greylags 1 Wheatear And a stoat at Blackstone Edge. The black tip to the tail (as well as its size) shows it is not a weasel

 Three Black-Tailed Godwit in the field at Ringstone this morning  

 Not many birds found in the crags today but did manage a couple of 'gems'. Target bird was Spotted Flycatcher - we found a pair - j...

 A single Drake Common Scoter 'sleeping' on Fly Flats res'r this morning which I scoped from the top road. Tricky at a distance ...

sinensis Cormorant juvenile. Another shot which shows very clearly how, in this subspecies, the rear edge of the yellow gular patch drops ve...

'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