PHEW!!

Soil Hill 10:00 - 12:00.

A hot sticky walk up and around Soil Hill this morning - not expecting much in the heat and not seeing much!

I dropped some Nyger Seed (you never know) and had a walk around the footpath.

A Juv. Woodpigeon was “lazing on a sunny afternoon” (well morning actually), looking tres chic, sitting on a fence post in the sun.

A Moorhen was far off on the lower pond.

A single Meadow Pipit and a family of Red Legged Partridge (I believe) left the hillside, in a hurry, as I walked the West contour path.

I hope the disturbance does not affect the RLPs adversely.

I took a random photo and actually captured one of them!!

1 Swift >S and a juv. Pheasant was near the main track below the "soil heaps".

5 Linnet flew past and, as I strolled about on Ned Hill Track there were at least 2 Whitethroat, very mobile. They remained stubbornly hidden in the lower branches of the small bushes there.

Also here 2 other birds, again very mobile and secretive, possibly Blackcap, but not easy to ID.

Coming down Taylor Lane 2 Swift floating about, c12 Swallow, a Kestrel, a few Goldfinches, a LBBG and a juv. Linnet on the telephone line??

 C15 Canda Geese came in to land on the Batty Pond.

Stunning RLP! shot

Even more stunning cropped!!