Low Moor and Oakenshaw Wildlife

Wood Pigeons featured strongly today at the watch point from dawn to around 10.30. The movement was on a broad front but the main movement as always here was to the E of the watch point over the pasture of…

Redwings were coming in today at the watch point some very high from both the N/W and N/E…but finding them was at times very hard work. Many calls were heard from 07.05 till the first bird went through from the…

What a morning! no not for the quality of the birds seen but for the fog that came in from the south east….At 07.00 visibility was about 15 miles by around 07.20 it was just 50 metres…….. these conditions lasted…

Incredibly a Hawfinch my second ever record flew low to the N at 09.00 this morning at Caldene Fields watch point!!!! I use the word ‘incredibe  ‘ as the species is uncommon in the Bradford area and is described as a…

We decided to treat ourselves over the weekend and instead of me vismigging at Caldene Fields we spent the weekend at Spurn brushing up my Vismig ID skills.  The we came back to he heavy rain and now fog……So vismigging here…

A really surprise this morning at Caldene Fields watch point,  4 Tree Sparrow flew low to the N last recorded here on 21/10/1979……. so really pleased with that!.  Also moving was a distance skein of 92 Pink footed geese that…

Had two local reports of Pink-footed Geese in the Oakenshaw area.  Firstly Vic saw approx 20 on the 25/9 moving over the Chair Bar roundabout heading towards the Halifax area.  Then on the 27 Sept Phil Andrew saw 60+ Pink Footed…

Another influx of Jays again this morning with 7 N and a further 8 tree hooping but gradually moving N.  David Barker who watches Oxenhope Visible migration also recorded 17 yesterday. Other highlights included 6 Snipe moved N and a…

At last the fog has gone! And an unprecedented numbers of Jays were recorded at Caldene Fields, 28 in total.  Around 09.00 a party of 10 came from the S and moved N at a reasonable height. Then small parties…