Cold Edge Dams To Mixenden

Via Ogden which we will not mention any more. Yet another not too exciting experience. Cold Edge produced a Buzzard and a Kestrel. A Reed Bunting was carrying food. 5 Tufted Duck 2 Meadow Pipit couple Goldfinch Blackbird & Linnet.

A Nuthatch family were at Hunter Hill bottom where once again it was busy with Swallows & Linnets.

Canadas and a few mixed Gulls on Mixenden Res. A WW sang in the woods for a short spell.

An Ogden Water Goody

Real run of the mill stuff at Ogden this morning until I got about two thirds of the circuit completed. Matters improved big time as I saw a pair of very busy Spotted Flycatcher fly across from one side of the track and back again a couple of times. It’s been a long wait for them.

3 Cormorant present and the usual suspects on the water. I got lucky and found some free fruit even if it did come with a sting in the tail

 

 c20 Linnet flying just beyond Carrs Beck as were a similar number of Swallows.

Too Windy Blackstone And Whiteholme

Picked a wrong un today (so whats new?). The W'ly blow kept everthing down including me 🥲.

Whiteholme was appalling just a pr of noisy Common Sandpiper at the far channel and a Meadow Pipit.

Blackstone Edge was marginally better but the birds seen were at distance. 2 Little Ringed Plover 1 Common Sandpiper 1 m Stonechat 5 Pied Wagtail 1 Herring Gull across the water. 4 Meadow Pipit.

3/4 Swallow seen on the road home and a perched bird on a rock ledge did look like a Peregrine if a 2.5 second view can be trusted 😏.

Catch Up On Not Much Doing

Third time out this week to Cold Edge Dams Ogden & Soil Hell Mixenden. Wednesday at Cold Edge was mediocrity enshrined nothing worth a mention.

Friday I went up to Soil Hell and just got a few Meadow Pipits. The digging seems to be over and done with but what a grim scene it is. I half worked out that potentially there is a chance of one scrape being formed when the maxi moisture descends.

Ogden just had the usual gulls plus 2 Common on the W shoreline. 

Today Saturday saw me at Cold Edge again where the only thing worth a mention is a group of c40 Goldfinch.

I saw a wader species at Ogden Water while I was on the W side. Problem is the bird was on the far E side. It appeared to be a Common Sandpiper but I couldn’t trace it again. Plenty large gulls again.

Forget Mixenden .

Be warned about Soil Hell. From the Perseverance Road entrance after you have gone through the two subsequent holes/gates you come to the gate that runs parallel to the quarry. A gang of Cows have partially wrecked this gate and it is extremely difficult to get through it without a struggle.

Cold Edge Dams To Mixenden

Again via Ogden which was mundane. Leadbeater Dam had a single Lapwing and 7 BHG on it. Haigh Cote had 37 Greylags including 3 white variants. Also the Tufted Duck family and a bunch of Canadas.

A Raven was calling. A Pied Wagtail seen along with a fair few Meadow Pipits. Swallows were into low double figures. 3 WW & 4 Linnet.

HX Golf course turned up a Curlew and a pr Buzzard 👍. Mixenden Res had a f Goosander on the drink but nothing else. A Chiffchaff & a Green Woodpecker were breaking the silence in the trees.

Belated Photos Cold Edge Mixenden

 

Cold Edge Dams To Mixenden

Ogden Res was included but not much doing.

Cold Edge was rather interesting and showed quite a bit of movement activity. 7 Lapwing & a Grey Heron were on Leadbeater Dam. A Kesrel was hovering close by it.

Haigh Cote sported female Tufted Duck with 4 young. A Pied Wagtail was seen as were the expected Canadas & Greylags. Several Linnet & Meadow Pipit were on the track along with a few Goldfinch.

A real pleasant surprise came as I rounded the track to walk past the large farmhouse to the right of Haigh Cote. On the large manicured lawn sitting or standing without a by your leave or a beg your pardon were 4 Oystercather 😅😁.

A pr Kestrel were hovering near the old Withens Pub and I got one by the golf course later.

Another pleasant encounter took place at Mixenden Res. 11 BHG were loafing on the W shoreline but in with them was a cracking adult Common Gull my first returner of the year.

No time to publish photos today so you two viewers can have a laugh later on.