Calderdale Birds

Common Sandpiper

Little Ringed Plover,  Common Sandpiper

Whitethroat male. Sang briefly Willow Warbler also present Little Ringed Plover Reed Bunting Roe Deer

1 of 3 Common Sandpipers Skylark

Greenland Wheatear male: - pot bellied - long wings - short tail with broad black band - strong supercilium - brownish grey back - underpart...

Common Sandpiper Little Ringed Plover 2 of 3 male Reed Buntings

4 of 9 Linnets

Kestrel male dust bathing

1 of 11 singing Willow Warblers Great Crested Grebes

 Had an hour to spare this afternoon. It was in the drizzle, very little singing other than Chiffchaffs, a couple of Blackcap, Song Thrush, ...

Singing Nuthatch

Mallard female with 8 young

  The very handsome male Ring Ouzel that has been at the bottom of the North Slope continued into its third day today, although the second b...

Reed Bunting male Little Ringed Plover White Wagtail. Its upperparts and flanks are silver grey. There is a sharp contrast between black nap...

Kestrel male with prey

                                         Adult winter Kittiwake , Whiteholme stayed for an hour on the water...                             ...

Wheatear pair It's awful: most of our side of Rishworth Moor is black after the fire yesterday - south of Baitings to the summit, and we...

Wheatear 6

Twite

Wheatear female Wheatear 2cy male. Black mask gives the sex; brownish-black wings, and brown in the upperparts, give the age