Bradshaw-Soil Hill-Ogden-Bradshaw

13:35 - 16:45

I enjoyed a break from the decor hating today and I did my usual walk, on a glorious hot sunny afternoon, around Bradshaw, Soil Hill and Ogden and back.

The walk started out very promising with a Juv. Green Woodpecker first calling from trees, then landing on a nearby telegraph pole on the bridleway up to Taylor Lane.

On Soil Hill I dropped some Snow Bunt jock on the track, and as I was leaving the track at the north end, I was rewarded with a sighting of a Common Snipe .

It left the track sharpish and landed near the muck heaps.

I had the camera at the ready but missed it by a whisker.

After that it was a pint of the usual with the smaller birds playing hide and seek on the Ogden circuit.

Before reaching Ogden, however, there were 2 Kestrel (I believe) flying together in a display? and calling (with a high pitched call).

Birds:-

Green Woodpecker.

Goldfinch  (3), (12), (4), (1). Meadow Pipit (8),(2),

Common Snipe. Canada Goose. (16),(21),

Woodpigeon, (4),( 2), Kestrel,(2). Small Gulls c120

Cormorant, Jay.

Common Snipe going right just out of shot?

Soil Hill from the hill behind Moorlands Inn