Spring arrives on Soil Hill.

Oats Royd – Roper Lane – Soil Hill.

A beautiful warm sunny afternoon had most of my warm clothes residing in my rucksack.

Oats Royd:13:00

An usual high count of dogs with their companions down there today – 6.

Pr. Mallard. LTT. Kestrel. 6 Woodpigeon. 6 Chaffinch. Jay. 3 Wren. Dunnock.

Roper Lane area 14:30.

Skylark singing over the cricket pitch and Greenfinch calling in flight and in the trees.

Raggalds Flood: 14.45

2 Lapwing

2 Common Gull. 

Pied Wagtail on the wall further up the road.

Possibly 2 Oystercatcher > NE.

On the pylon and in the field C200 Starling.

Soil Hill (No Coat!). 15:00

Skylark song everywhere.

8 Skylark. 

Curlew calling from Ogden Moor.

1 Meadow Pipit.

 Lapwing patiently sitting on the top.

On the exit track C30 Starling on the mast / field.

3 Fieldfare. 

2 Redwing.

Greenfinch calling on Taylor Lane.

Pied Wagtail waiting for me on the house roof.

                                                        Raggalds Flood.

Soil Hill Lapwing.

Heron's Dinner