Not Calderdale For Once

Warm and Sunny in Can Picafort and not too many birds around which is good cos I’m cheesed off with having wasted a lifetime on them.

c9 Audouins Gulls. 6 Turnstone. 1 elusive sneaky rotten Shag. 2 almost sociable Sedge Warblers. 3 Red rumped Swallows.

c22  Coot (thank goodness) couple Moorhen. Best of the bunch plenty of  House Sparrows 🤓 👍.

Queensbury South

Been a while since I did Littlemoor Park and the wider adjacent fields so off I trekked this morning.

The park wasn’t too interesting but a fair few Robin were singing.

The fields and the huge quarry area at Cross Lane fared better. Several Meadow Pipit ditto Linnet. Plenty of BHG & a Common Gull.

A Wheatear was reluctant to leave the post it was perched upon. 1 Kestrel & a small number of Goldfinch also present.

Ogden Water To Mixenden Rubbish

Talk about gash! Best pick at Ogden was WW, Buzzard and a Comma Butterfly. I dug out my old camera just to see if it worked. Don't look any further cos the photos are non avian.

Cold Edge Dams Downer

I have always suspected I am certifiable and today convinced me even more 🤨. I mean who would go to Wainstalls on a wet Saturday knowing the fresh gusty wind was blowing from the SW? Look no further ‘twas I ☹️.

1 Cormorant, c20 BHG, 11 Canadas, 4 Pheasant (3 of em in a garden).

Small numbers of Meadow Pipit and Starling. A flock of Linnet, 1 WW, 1 Swallow & a Blackbird.

Pink-Footed Geese Over Queensbury

I was walking up Chapel Lane at around 1000 hrs when I jerked to a sudden halt by the sports field behind Springfield. The familiar call of  Pink-footed Geese came from above and lasted for approximately 3 minutes 😁.

My attempts to look skyward were unsuccessful partly owing to roof tops obscuring my view so no visuals. I felt at the time and still do that it was a small party of birds possibly heading SE.

Thanks to BS for informing me that 3 other birders observed flocks of PFGs over a widespread area.

Ogden Water was a pitiful experience. Gulls down to low numbers and no migration evidence seen. A Buzzard called 4 times.

2 Stonechat and 2 Swallow seen at Hunter Hill bottom.

Ogden Water Delivers

BS gave me extra motivation to get to Ogden this morning with his message about the presence of 4 Shelduck 😜.

Fortunately they were still there when I arrived at 1050

hrs.

Not much else to smile about just the culprits that have been lounging around for weeks.

A WW at Carrs Beck.  Stonechat at HH bottom and a Green Woodpecker nearby.

Slow Start At Ogden Warms Up

Not much excitement at Ogden other than I did get the

baby Cormorant seen by BS previously 😅 it was of course a Little Grebe.

Passerines were more active today. 1 WW ditto Nuthatch.

A small Tit party included Coal and LTT. 3/4 Robins seen and heard. A Green Woodpecker was very noisy.

A Stonechat seen at Carrs Beck and a Skylark and a pr Linnet a little further on.

6 House Martin were nearer to Mixenden Res which surprised me in having 3 female Goosander present 😳 😁.

Mobile Bone alignment problems still persist.