Back from holiday and after looking after Abi this morning, I was rewarded with a free afternoon for birding.
I thought I'd have a try for NK's great find of Green Sandpiper at Ogden recently, and, more recently, DJS's Redstarts.
A bit quiet around the circuit, but over half way round I eye-balled a Wader in the shallow water - a Green Sandpiper.
This is a 1st for me in Calderdale and brings my Calderdale this years list to 100 and my all time Calderdale List to 135.
Hoping my luck would hold I walked past the Golf Clubhouse and past the maintenance buildings, along the track before a left turn took me and over the rough ground hereabouts trying to locate DJS's Redstart(s). No joy here today.... my second long stint here looking for Redstart.
Just a few Goldfinch and a brief glimpse of a Calling Whitethroat.
Birds:-
Green Sandpiper.
5 Cormorant, Willow Warbler.
Black Headed Gull, Common Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull, Herring Gull.
A possible Teal (Asleep distant ).
3 Tufted Duck, Great Crested Grebe.
Whitethroat, Stock Dove.
3 Buzzard over Roper Lane, seen at distance, from the garden.
A dog walker called out "He's lost his ball" - "He's a ball down now".
Perhaps they will rename their dog Hitler.
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