Yesterday 15th September

Back to its usual poor visit, my own fault for not going at dawn due to copious beer drunk the night before!!
So just after midday very little not the usual masses of meadow pipits just 30+ heading sw a wheatear livened up the walk but she soon shot off sw a crow and red grouse made a brief appearance and 4 twite

This is why I love it up here

Arrived at 0750 first bird a male chaffinch sat on wires 2nd record for me here, this is why I love this place ... The previous month I found a yellow wagtail here again my 2nd record,so upto the moment I saw the chaffinch yellow wagtail was commoner up here! And that got me thinking
Because it's so bleak and high and the only bird that is resident up here is carrion crow everything else is good
More sightings of common scoter 3 records totalling 71 birds than tufted duck 1 bizzare!!
It really is a level playing field up here
Anyway

Chaffinch 1 male
Goldfinch 28
Twite 49
Meadow pipit 100+
Pied wagtail 2
Wheatear 7
Carrion crow 1
Kestrel 1
Swallow 4
Chiffchaff 3
Wren 1
Stonechat 2
Red grouse 2

Soaked

Got here for 6.50am misty drizzle  it's ok walking with your back to sw wind and rain but it gets you on the way back

Meadow pipit 80 +
Wheatear 2
Skylark 1
Buzzard 1
Carrion crow 2
Canada goose 11

Wheatears every where

Sunny and cold this morning clear blue skies
Wheatear in the drain then another and another on the dam plus another on the fence,not bad.
Then 7 went straight through chased by meadow pipits.
2 lbb gulls went west and 2 Canada geese dropped in
Twite are up to 40+ mainly  by the pump house , a kestrel over the ridge was nice to see.

I headed back and decided to check the pond, it's not a bad area always got something .... And it didn't disappoint 3 reed bunts 26 goldfinch 1 dunnock and a chiffchaff  a grey wagtail flew over

Love it

Up the with this morning

Carrion crow 2
Meadow pipit 40+
Wheatear 3
Buzzard 1
House Martin 1
Twite 26
Mallard 4
Shelduck 2

Green withens Twite

Me and the bear aka Jessie got there for 7 am.
Lots of meadow pipits in total approx 100 maybe more as they like the bracken. Wren and reed bunting calling, 2 wheatears along the dam plus lots of twite around 70 in two groups
They like the thistles along the track plus bracken and they like to settle on the wire fence. Nice to see  such large numbers.
A kestrel and a couple pied wagtails rounded off a nice walk

A good mornings birding

Arrived at 07:50 it looked good sw wind and heavy cloud on the Pennine ridge. Nothing in the valley . First bird seen was a meadow pipit along the track/drain, more mpipits by the boathouse plus 28 twite, this is proberly the only flock in Calderdale...cool no sign of colour rings on them.
A distant bird flying sw in the low mist proved to be a buzzard. The rest of walk was livened up by 3 swallows going west. A skylark was by the track and more mpipits at the rear of the depot along with a wheatear