Calderdale Birds

Mandarin. I think it is an eclipse male because the bill is pink.

  It has been a sluggish start to the Soil Hill autumn, with low migrants and shocking weather. Still, that was all forgotten about this mor...

My photos of this bird, which surfaced only briefly between dives, were taken with a pocket camera (x30) in fairly poor - though dry - condi...

Scaup. Grey bill with black nail. Grey body - suggests male. Dived repeatedly, showing greyish white belly. The dives were long - perhaps a ...

Stonechat: 2m 2f

  Yesterday morning I stumbled across at least two but possibly three Sedge Warblers in the same area, a location I normally don’t check in...

Any thoughts on these quite distant shots from Nick taken in mid/late July on the roof of the water board building at Pellon res'r. Adul...

Another juvenile Wheatear. Orange margins to wing feathers. A solitary Greylag Goose

 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