Calderdale Birds

 Juvenile Wheatear almost moulted into 1st winter, but still with a scaly head Younger juvenile Wheatear: margins of flight feathers still q...

 Dipper

 Wheatear juvenile

Heard a commotion from Lesser Black-backed Gulls this afternoon. Looked up, high a Red Kite also being mobbed by a Sparrowhawk was a very n...

Coot 1 Great Crested Grebe 2

 Tufted Duck 2m 1f 2 juvenile Grey Herons

 Teal female Close-up of the orchid first posted on 24 June

 Meadow Pipit carrying food

 Tufted Duck Orchid. I photographed this as a Common Spotted Orchid, and it does have a lip divided into 3 with the middle lobe a little lon...

 16 Linnets, including this female Also, a Skylark singing

Luddenden - came across 2 juvenile Dippers along the stream-side this afternoon. They seemed to be feeding themselves, perhaps still relying...

 2 of 3 juvenile Little Grebes Moorhen: 1 of a pair of adults with 1 of 4 tiny young

 Wheatear Some of 23 adult Greylags (including 1 albino), + 2 Canadas Southern Marsh Orchid Also 140 Swifts west, and a probable juvenile Pe...

 Little Owl adult

 Common Sandpiper 2 Greylag family

 Common Cottongrass

 Female Bullfinch gathering food

 Absolutely no shoreline on show at the moment, but the island in the middle of the reservoir has reappeared from somewhere, so that's s...

 Female Wheatear

 A clearer photo of the same Whitethroat