Withens Clough Reservoir

16:30 - 18:15

Windy, dull and quite cool in the wind but dry.
A pretty reservoir with some sand and rocks showing on a good deal of the water's edge.

Not a place we visit very often - a long way from Bradshaw.
We did a slow circuit of the reservoir this aft.

Birds:-

A Buzzard was seen high over the Robin Hood pub on our way here.

First up was a very distant bird on a post. 
I took a speculative photo of it and it looks like a Stonechat, or it could well be a Whinchat but the picture is too poor for me to say.
I'm fancying it's a Whinchat. 
So it's a Stonechat .. cheers Andy.

Canada Geese. Kestrel.
Pr. Linnet.
Lots of Pied Wagtail and a few Grey Wagtail.
Reed Bunting, Curlew.
4 Common Sandpiper plus a couple of young birds.
At least 3 Little Ringed Plover.
Single Mallard dropped in and out.

A 'lively' Pipit along the water's edge and the rocks, probably a Meadow Pipit but it seemed a lot quicker in it's movements!

Raven heard and a few other sp.

(Just chug, chug, chuged passed my 100th Caldedale bird with 101 on my tick list!).
Unless, of course, my Whinchat is a Whinchat!

Very distant cropped photo:

Stonechat or Whinchat?

Lively Meadow Pipit.