Birdcage Lane & Soil Hill.

Birdcage Lane

11:15

Sue called to see her dad this morning so I sloped off to have a look around the Birdcage Lane area, hoping for Lesser Pecker.

There was plenty of birdlife and plenty of birds calling with nuthatch calls being the ones that stood out.

I had a walk along Birdcage Lane and down and  along Broomfield Ave. and then along the bottom of the Rugby Ground.

This path emerges onto a one-way road where a right turn leads back to Birdcage Lane.

The bushes and trees along this stretch of road held lots of birds.

Birds:-

House Sparrow, Woodpigeon,3 Nuthatch, 4 Jay, Blue, Great and Coal Tit, 4 Greenfinch, c25 Goldfinch, Robin, Dunnock, Chaffinch, 5 Long Tailed Tit, GSW calling, Mistle Thrush.

Soil Hill

14:25

I had a later than usual check on Soil Hill today. I put some Nyger Seed down –It seems that something likes the seed – the previous lot had gone.

It was mild (for Soil Hill) but when I got to the top of the hill the mist began to role in from Thornton spoiling things a bit.

It was another poor outing for me up here I’m afraid.

I had a good nosey about, but all I had top show for it was 2 Goldfinch, Hen Pheasant and a Wren!

I heard a call, possibly a Reed Bunting but a 10 mins. hunt for the elusive B…..(ird) did not produce the goods.

Ned Hill Track produced a solitary Wren.

Perseverance Road had 6 or so Common Gull in the fields and gulls were going over in 10’s towards Thornton Moor Reservoir.

Taylor lane had a Kestrel on the power lines and the fields below Roper Lane were bereft of any Geese today.

I was going to check out Raggalds Flood but yesterday’s hike was taking it’s toll and the light was getting very poor… and I can’t think of any more  excuses.

A TRUE tale from yesterday’s visit to The Fleece at Haworth.

While I was in the loo in The Fleece, a man came in and started chatting to the man next to me.

“What an awful day I’ve had – It’s good to relax and get sat down with a pint and no nagging kids or wife blah blah blah”

The second guy says “You should moan?”

“I was at the bar 5 minutes ago when a lady came in with a dog, and guess what? Her dog actually  S**T on my shoe!”

First bloke said “Actually my day was pretty good then” and walked off.

First thing that entered my head was that the dog must have been ,yes you’ve guessed it, a Shih Tzu.

The poor light is reflected in the poor photos