Monday 20 October 2014

Ogden & Soil Hill



13:35 Showers and sun.

Ogden:

Usual Ogden gang:-

C90 gulls mostly BHG with a few Common and a couple of LBBG.
One LBBG being mobbed by a BHG.

Some interesting bird calls came from the first lot of bushes through the kissing gate , after crossing the promenade but the birds proved very illusive and I failed to spot any of them.

The bushes on the west side of the res. were alive with birds flitting about.
It proved difficult to get a decent photograph though.

Robin 8, Chaffinch, Blue, Great & LTT with at least 6 Goldcrest.
Jay 2.

3 Cormorant, GCG and the usual Little Grebe diving , and catching small fish ,by the look of it.

Soil Hill Contour Footpath.

Breezy up here with the odd shower.

Very quiet today Kestrel, Common Gull , 2 Carrion Crow and that’s that.

At least I managed to put a bit of bird seed down. For anyone interested I have put a small container of bird seed (cheap stuff) behind the wall on the left, just beyond the radio mast. Please feel free to lob some out! I normally put some around & under the large rocks that block the footpath , about 5 meters from the mast. 


On the way down a possible sighting of 3 Partridge as they disappeared over the hill east of Taylor Lane.
No winter thrushes about.






My most photograph GCG


Look out Bri. I'll be taking 'em like you soon!



Come here


That's it - now stay still


Nearly got you


GULP (now where are those chips and mushy peas)






Mixenden Res. from a damp SH



Couldn't find a post so this is today's very interesting rock.



Solitary Common Gull on the underground res. field



Halifax sprawl from Perseverance Road - Wainhouse Tower is somewhere in the middle - honest




2 comments:

  1. Good to see a shot of the Little Grebe with a fish which looks like a Minnow sized job. I don't know if they live in such acidic water however.

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  2. Nice shots of the Grebe with fish.Apparently the water is well stocked with fish hence the long staying Cormorants and Grebes, or so I,m told.
    Good do with the seed, I,ll scatter some Nyjer in that area.
    The Snow Bunts were attracted to ordinary wild bird seed a couple of years back put down by one of the Halifax lads.

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