Bradshaw – Soil Hill – Ogden – Holdsworth Area – Oats Royd – Bradshaw.

10:30.

A fair trek around Bradshaw area.

Sun then mist then sun then mist - must be Bradshaw.

Birds:-

Bradshaw to Soil Hill.

Pied Wagtail, GSW Calling, 3 Common Gull > N.

Green Woodpecker calling from trees within 20 yds of me – but I did not eyeball it!

Soil Hill – Contour Footpath.

A Common Snipe flushed from the north end did a hasty zig-zag towards Thornton. Carrion Crow & not a lot else.

Ogden Plantation.

Pheasant.

Odgen.

Usual Gull sp. Common, BHG, LBBG.

Coal, Blue, Great Tit, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Chaffinch.

(I Bumped into NK who had some interesting news.)

Holdsworth , Oats Royd & Bradshaw.

No sign of the Black Redstart or the Stonechat alas.

1 BHG, Dunnock, 3 Wren, Moorhen, Chaffinch, Robin, M. Bullfinch, 2 Meadow Pipit, 5 Blackbird, Collard Dove, Goldfinch, Rook.

15 or so Goldfinch on the telephone lines near home with 6 Starling on the pylon wires. A couple of Chaffinch in the trees opposite the house.

Soil Hill

Here comes breakfast

A pale sun.

I don't recall the iron work in the middle of the ruin?

Mist clearing

A new (big) baby turbine

Ogden.

Holdworth to Oats Royd

Today's Post (calderdale way)

Path from Holdsworth to Oats Royd.

A bit of autumn colour at Oats Royd

Bradshaw Park.

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