Bradshaw – Queensbury.

9:45.

After escaping Igglepiggle,  Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka,Ninky Nonk , the Pontipines and the Tombliboos I had the usual stroll today; from Bradshaw to Queensbury via Scholes & the Old railway cycle track.

Hot sultry day with little breeze.

Raggalds Flood is now like the Sahara with just a Pied Wagtail & Swift to be seen.

Low Lane.

The usual birds knocking about here Greenfinch, Swallow, Linnet, Goldfinch & Pied Wagtail. I did not see any Lapwing in the fields.

Junction Pub Area.

Swift, Swallow, c100 Starling mostly Juv. by the looks of it in the fields & on the walls.

Cycle Track.

Lots of birdsong today with a Whitethroat singing loudly from a tree top far off.

Wren in good voice also Blackcap singing and Willow Warbler& Meadow Pipit with a possible Tree Pipit see photo.

Nr the Tunnel.

The bushes here very active with birdlife with young birds asking to be fed.

A Male Bullfinch very kindly allowed me to snap it also present a Juv. Bullfinch? Also here singing Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, and at least 2 Blackcap, with many birds moving about, it was difficult to pin point how many Blackcap there were.

Station House.

In the trees behind station house a warbler with a song I am not familiar with. The bird was very flighty and difficult to see but after listening to the song on the RSPB website at home I am fairly sure that it was a Garden Warbler a first for me. Strangely enough further up the lane another warbler was skulking about, low, in the Willow Herb before quickly exiting into a tree. I believe that this was also a Garden Warbler ( they are a bit like buses, wait ages and then 2 come together). Also heard from the lane a Male Pheasant.

Not a bad day for me

Today's Post.

Tree Pipit?

Juv Bullfinch?