I walked across the fields to Ogden Water and around the circuit.
No cafe open today so I was a slim Jim for a few hours.
Good to chat with NK doing the rounds hereabouts.
A Calderdale WhatsApp message from DJS pinged on my phone as I was going around the water, reporting a Shelduck and Great Black-backed Gull on Mixenden Reservoir - a very welcome change for Mixenden which had been poor for months.
My birding walk was a really dismal affair with not much seen at Ogden and even less seen on a very windy Soil Hill on my return leg.
After my Caviar and Smoked Salmon Fricassee lunch, I was contemplating driving over to Mixenden Reservoir for the 'specials' when a confirmation ping on my phone (from DJS via NK - thanks both) of the 'specials' still in situ galvanised me into action!
The drive over was a success with both the Great Black-backed Gull and Shelduck seen along the NE side.
Just as I was leaving a dog walker appeared walking along the banking at the north end towards the Gulls so I guess they would have been flushed by the dog.
The Shelduck had already flown onto the west side of the water.
Two 'ticks' - not bad, not bad at all.
Birds:
Bradshaw - Ogden Water - Soil Hill.
2 Singing Mistle Thrush.
9 Stock Dove.
4 Robin.
Coal Tit.
Chaffinch.
1 Kestrel.
Goldfinch.
House Sparrow.
2 Dunnock.
Blackbird.
Herring Gull.
c20 Small Gulls - Ogden.
c20 Common Gulls - Bradshaw Fields.
and a few others species.
Mixenden Reservoir.
1 Tufted Duck.
1 Great Black-backed Gull.
1 Shelduck.
c5 Herring Gull.
c100 Small Gulls.
Mixenden:-
Mixenden Gulls.
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