Home Time - Easter Break Tuesday – Hollingworth Lake, Soil Hill & Ogden

Hollingworth Lake.

We enjoyed a final stroll around this morning through some of the farms near the lake.

Birds:-

Great Crested Grebe, Canada Goose on a nest, Coot, Grey Heron, Pied Wagtail, Coal Tit investigating a nest site.

Soil Hill – 15:45 – 17:00

After settling in at home I decided to try Soil Hill for Wheatear and Ogden for whatever.

It was a bit breezy on the tops but quite pleasant. After dropping a bit of Mallard Grub on the track I had a good look around but produced no Wheatear. The usual small birds were about on the way up. On the top there were 3 Lapwing, 5 or so Skylark, 12 Meadow Pipit, and a very active Kestrel looking to nab a Meadow Pipit by the looks of it.

Ogden Woodland 17:00 – 18:00

At Syke Lane Cottages a very vociferous Coal Tit was in the conifer there & Sue rang to say she’d been delayed and she would pick me up nearer 19:00 was it OK? That fit in well with my plan!

I went up back lane bridleway and turned diagonally right to reach the Ogden wood boundary wall. Here I turned right and had a lovely surprise when I spotted a Green Woodpecker on a Grassy Mound near the marker post V5. This was my bogey bird this year. The bird was in silhouette so the pictures are poor. I remained with the wall and followed it to its demise before crossing the fence into the wood and retracing my steps this time in the trees.

A quick tour of the reservoir and a lift home followed.

A fly over of 30 Mallard as I left via Boggart Brig and a mystery bird > N as I sat on the wall by the Golf Club Road.

Birds:-

Green Woodpecker, 4 Meadow Pipit, Curlew calling, Red Grouse calling,3 Nuthatch.

Ogden Water 18:00 – 18:40

The water was quiet with 16 Canada Goose, Mallard, Tufted Duck and Barney  with Goldcrest calling from the Xmas tree fence.

Hollingworth Lake:-

Ogden & Soil Hill:-

Ogden palm tree

Today's mystery bird

Not much better cropped