10:30 - 15:45
Hot and Sunny.
Following a Calderdale Birding Group Whatsapp from CK of a Cuckoo and a Tree Pipit near the Giant's Tooth, Ogden I thought I'd bite the bullet and go for a long twitch to see if I could locate either bird.
It was quite a grueller today , from Bradshaw to Ogden Water (rammed with people for the Halifax Harrier annual run) and up to Giant Tooth where Per-Spire-a-tion was in evidence.
After a lengthy look-see near the Tooth I sat on the stone seat here to have my sack's meagre supply of rations - 1 Pk Crisps, 1 Choc Choc Bar and an apple.
I slurped some water and had a look a bit higher up to my left at the conifers.
I did get a distant call that I could not place and my Merlin App could not hear it(deaf as a post) but it definitely was not either bird I was after.
Soon after I had passed the Wooden Seat near the Tooth a Pied Flycatcher called several times to my right from high in foliage.
I did not eyeball it , and it soon flew across the path >East-ish to call from further away in inaccessible woodland before being heard even further away.
I called at the Visitors Centre for a coffee and a Kit-Kat to fire me up for my trudge up Ned Hill Road and over Soil Hill to home.
(Some) Birds:-
Loads of birdsong today.
Willow Warbler. Chiffchaff, and lots Blackcap singers.
4 Whitethroat. 4 Stock Dove. 6 Swallow.
A Mallard with family in tow sailed very close to a Heron at Ogden Water, luckily the Heron did not bite!
3 Tufted Duck. Buzzard, Curlew.
10 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Herring Gull.
Pied Flycatcher.
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