Calderdale Birds

Little Ringed Plover Common Scoter pair Great Crested Grebe 5

Ringed Plover 2

Merlin juvenile. Dick Forsman (1999, Raptors of E and ME) has a photo of a juvenile Merlin, and notes that there are dark streaks on the bre...

Ringed Plover juvenile Also: Wheatear 1

Meadow Pipit with 2 or 3 prey items Common sandpiper

Ringed Plover juvenile. Body more 'dumpy' than LRP, and rear not attenuated. Thicker bill. No yellow or pale buff orbital ring. Pale...

Chiffchaff Grey Heron on shoreline exposed by falling water level

Little Ringed Plover, (with Pied Wagtail juvenile). The narrow breast band indicates female Solitary Black-headed Gull Also:  1 Redshank, an...

Great Crested Grebe 2 Cormorant 5 Common Gull 1 Stock Dove 2

Tufted Duck male Teal 4 British Cormorant, P c carbo, immature. The rear edge of the yellow gular patch slopes forwards below the gape Pheas...

Juvenile House Martins

Tufted Duck

  I had completed my route around Soil Hill and was just on my way back home at around 07:20. As I passed the Entrance Copse my attention wa...

2 singing Whitethroats

Singing Greenfinch

Coot pair with 2 young

Long-tailed Tit juveniles

Song Thrushes

I have heard from the BTO about the ringed Coot I saw here on 21 May. It was ringed as an adult, in Shibden Park (!), on 27 November 2023.

Nuthatch juvenile Robin 1 of 2 juveniles Dunnock juvenile. Dark streaks on underparts