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
Dunnock and Coal Tit John. A grim day for birds and birding.
ReplyDeleteThough so Bri. but clomping about in the snow I had my Megga "might be a Marsh Tit" hat on!!!
ReplyDeleteThe 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