Ogden – Soil Hill – Bradshaw

After yesterdays' tiring Blackpool trip and Fleetwood Marsh it was nice to get back to normal.

Ogden.

12:45 Cold wet and windy.

The usual jaunt today in wet conditions, improving as the day went by, to become dry , bright and breezy.

Usual Ogden stuff.

Jay, Blue Tit, Great Tit Chaffinch, Wren, Robin, a pretty Mallard offshoot, Carrion Crow.

A Coal Tit (spotted after I had done quite a bit of searching).

A few Common Gull, LBBG, BHG, 2 GCG, 4 Cormorant, Little Grebe.

A Green Woodpecker calling and then spotted flying across the North End of the Res. with a further 2 Green Woodpecker calling from different directions. 

It’s nice to actually spot a Green Woodpecker instead of just hearing them calling.

Plantation Area and Coal Lane.

The breeze seemed to be keeping birds at bay. Just a Coal Tit and 5 Pheasant here.

Ned Hill Track – Soil Hill – Home.

3 Kestrel were enjoying the strong breeze hunting over soil hill.

A couple of them seemed to be playing or maybe fighting?

Only a couple of Meadow Pipit about on the contour footpath with 3 Goldfinch and c12 Linnet seen on the way home.

Pheasants hightailing it on Coal lane.

Today's post. Not much chance of this pole falling and killing you -  is there?

A Kestrel enjoying the windy conditions approaching soil hill.

Soil Hill contour footpath.

BHG 

Swalesmoor area from the top of Taylor Lane