Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Déjà vu

It was another very snowy day like Saturday with heavy snow continuing from early morning to 14:00 or so when it kept on snowing but at a diminished rate.
It's now 16:00 and it's coming down thick and fast again.

Sue had to go to Sowerby Bridge this morning and she had a hard time getting home with traffic snarled up because of the snow.
After lobbing some white stuff about I thought a walk to the paper shop was my best option today.
The Bradshaw main road was in fair fettle with snow ploughs and gritters about, keeping things moving.

The bird life was thin on the ground, to be expected, given the weather.

Birds:-

A small Tit was singing  “cup-o-tea”, “cup-o-tea”, “cup-o-tea - tit”,  (or so it sounded to me)  in the bushes at Bradshaw Park – the white on it's head makes it a Coal Tit I think. I've included the (non too great) photo's in case it's something else.
Magpie, Carrion Crow and Rook were waiting out the snow, sitting on chimneys and tree tops.
Also seen were Wren, Woodpigeon, 8 Starling, 3 Collard Dove, House Sparrow, Blackbird.
A pr. Moorhen were feeding below the trees near the park.
Black Headed Gulls were circling about looking for tasty morsels in gardens.

Our resident Blackbirds didn’t take long to come looking for their mealworms this morning.


A pretty Bradshaw Park













Towards Oats Royd


Towards Bradshaw church




Any Ideas? Possibly a Dunnock



2 comments:

  1. Dunnock and Coal Tit John. A grim day for birds and birding.

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  2. Though so Bri. but clomping about in the snow I had my Megga "might be a Marsh Tit" hat on!!!
    The Coat Tit song was nice to hear in the snow.
    Don't know how the birds survive in this stuff.
    The snow should go by weekend apparently.
    John

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