Ogden to Bradshaw / Ringstone Reservoir (Barkisland)

Sue dropped me at Ogden this morning on her way to "er air do".

A windy outing, espicially at the Giant Tooth, where I slogged up to to, to be greeted with no birds at all.

The best part of the outing was the coffee and KitKat in the café there.

I did the usual circuit of the water then home via Crabtree Hall Farm.

Nothing new on the horizon today.

This afternoon we had a visit to make to Greetland and I took the opportunity to visit Ringstone Reservoir.

Pretty windy here as well , and the large contingent of Lapwing in the north? field took to the air as we parked the car by the houses, remaining there for ages.

I did not see what, if anything, spooked them.

The large Lapwing flock were accompanied by many Gulls and a good number of both Starling and Fieldfare in the same field.

There looked to be 3 or 4 Golden Plover maybe in the mix.

A Kestrel was hunting nearby and Sue eyeballed a Buzzard from where she waited for me in the car.

I took lots of photos but the birds were probably too far away to pick owt special out.

During a low point of today's Ogden birding, my mind wandered off somewhere, and a bit of humour? seemed to take shape in there.

Here it is.

Johnny moved from Yorkshire to a very, very posh school in London.

During an English lesson the very posh teacher said:-

"Johnny can you give me an interesting sentence using the word fart?"

Johnny: "No Problem Miss".

"My dad goes to the pub, drinks Guinness, and this makes him fart, Miss" .

Posh Miss: "No, no, no Johnny  - you misunderstand. 

I said F a rrrr T as in obese, overweight, chubby".

"Get It Johnny?".

"Lets try again Johnny, this time try the word terrace in an interesting sentence - this should be easier".

Johnny: "ok miss".

"My dad bought me a puppy for Christmas and all it does is Tear Arse around the house"

"Get It Miss?".

There seems to be some men outside my house with a strange jacket thingy with long straps hanging off the sides.

Riddle:

Which letter would be useful to a deaf woman?

Answer Below the photos.

Birds:

Ogden:

1 Canada Goose.

c10 Common and c20 Black Headed Gulls at one point.

c50 Mallard.

Blue, Great and Long Tailed Tit.

Wren, 4 Blackbird.

5 Treecreeper dotted about the walk, were nice to see.

The Female Goosander was here, not seen it in a while.

Bradshaw.

2 Stock Dove.

c20 Common Gull.

c40 Jackdaw.

1 Herring Gull.

Ringstone:

Buzzard.

Kestrel.

Lapwing.

95 Fieldfare (counted from a slowed down video - probably more over the hill!).

Starling.

Examining the photos 3 or 4 birds are  perhaps a lighter brown shade and maybe Golden Plover - but I don't think I'll add them to my yearly list!!

Many, many Gulls.

I'll hopefully find something decent in the photos when I get a proper look at them.

Ogden - Bradshaw.

Ringstone:

Riddle Answer:

The letter "A" - because it would make her "hear".

(I did not understand this one but Sue did!).

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