Cloughton

after about 20 years I went back to cloughton
Parked up the camper and chilled out, it was wonderful peregrine flew over then the wife saw a barn owl we laid in the middle of a field watching the stars total bliss

shearwaters and whales

Tarifa

july 2016 17 years since  i was last in tarifa the towns got bigger
booked a whale tour 3 hours
it was fantastic

corys shearwater

 fin whale

 orca

the star of the trip

Mytholmroyd weekend

Out around the village on Saturday

Warblers seen were whitethroat blackcap chiffchaff and willow warbler
4 swifts back
Grey wagtail dipper and a kingfisher along the calder

Erringden moor sunday

After moving to mytholmroyd last year I have been looking for good areas to go birding and apart from the garden, erringden moor seems as good a place 

So off I went with the dog up and over the moor

Very few birds about a five mile walk produced 

Snipe 1

Chiffchaff 2

Willow warbler 1

Wheatear 1 

Stoodley pike 

Mytholmroyd

Recent un-employment and no car means i am now having to stay very local!!!! so decide to concentrate on southowram, using the parish boundry which is Red Beck in the east, River Calder to the south,the Hebble in the west and the A58 to the north, for ease i have ammended it slightly.............

The Patch

1st November 2012

common gull 64 in fields around coal pit lane
pink footed goose 200apx flew se from wainhouse tower
fieldfare 5 east
redwing 23 east
meadow pipit 4
skylark 2
grey wagtail 1over the house
warbler sp
in the few trees at Pit House Farm, picked up on call which to my ears sounded 'whoeet' like but squeaky, i managed to see the bird briefly feeding in the tree,an obvious phylloscopus warbler,feeding on the outer most leaves,in size it was between a blue tit and goldcrest( blue tit present) very active constantly moving from leaf to leaf before flying off to the trees nearer the lane,after looking for 20 minutes it became obvious it had moved on.
i only noted plumage wise it had green upperparts, pale greyish underparts, one obvious wing bar the head pattern could not be made out due to it moving and being above me.

mytholmroyd to siddal

walked the canal from mytholmroyd to home about 8 miles.

very quiet expected more

chiffchaff 1
grey heron 1
jay 7
meadow pipit 2
skylark 1
goldfinch 30
bullfinch 4

the with this afternoon

just a quick hour up here around mid afternoon

swallow 7 sw
skylark 4
meadow pipit 21
pied wagtail 2
carrion crow 1