Out and About

It was another scorcher and another tour around the local area on the hunt for Tree Pipit. If past form is anything to go by I've got Meadow Pipit!!

11:00 Odgen

A tour of the water brought the usual suspects my way. Willow Warbler & Chiffchaff singing, 6 Canadas, 3 separate families of  Mallard with one, four & eight Ducklings.

A Green Woodpecker was calling from far away at the north end of the reservoir. Wren singing and a very skittish Heron, a Juv. I think.

13:00 Golf Course Area

Not as much birdsong as I was hoping for.

A few Meadow Pipit were in Trees and a few more on walls.

I managed a fairly lousy pic of one in the trees a long way off.

Second Green Woodpecker calling a couple of times from very near the Golf Course. The second call only 20yds away but I still didn't eyeball the G.W.

A Jay close by may have instigated the Woodpecker call.

A weasel ran across the track or was it a Golden Ferret.

A Kestrel was hunting above the Golf course.

The best of the bunch today was a singing Reed Bunting. 

It took me 15 mins to locate it, even though it sang for the whole 15 mins!

A walk home via Brockholes , Peat Pits and Oats Royd (where a noisy dog was being lobbed a stick) was a poor do , with just Collard Dove, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Greenfinch and a Heron - flushed by the dog - and a few others was as good as it got.

Halifax Gala with Granddaughter tomorrow so it’s forced to pour down.

This bird was a possible Tree Pipit contender, but alas no song, and it flew from a tree a lot nearer than this one, before I got the camera on it - ah well must improve!

Oats Royd Area

A Kite but not Red

There are some lovely colours down here at the moment

Ogden : Another stunning video:

 Possible Garden Warbler but the song was soon interrupted by a Chaffer.