Local Misty Stroll

My resident Blackbird, Robin and Dunnock were all flitting about the hedge this morning waiting for me to serve them their Meal Worm breakfast and a pair of Blue Tit were having a, early than usual, flirtation with the Blue Tit box .

It’s only 11^th January , hope they don’t nest too soon.

We had a short leg-stretcher today, or with all the extra pounds added over Christmas, more a pound-stretcher.

On a cold day, where the mist kept floating about, we kept to the lanes / roads doing a circle from home, up Ingham Lane towards Ogden and then up the main Keighley road to Asa Nicholson’s Tea Rooms where a bacon butty negated any benefit the walk was doing.

We went home via the Kelham farm shop and the Raggalds.

Looking up to Soil Hill, one minute it was visible, the next it was shrouded in fog.

As expected there was not much birdlife seen from the roads.

A couple of Mistle Thrush was in the fields opposite the cricket club.

2 Canada Geese a Pheasant and 3 Woodpigeon were seen as we walked  along Syke Lane.

A few House Sparrow were in the bushes near the Soil Hill quarry entrance on the way up to Kelham where a Carrion Crow looked to have found something disgusting to eat.

A group of hens and a Cockerel were huddled together in an open gateway 5 yards from the busy "A" Road near Sandal Farm.

30 (ish) small, mainly Common, Gull was in the fields here.

12 (ish) Black Headed Gull were on the Raggalds Flood – no sign of the lapwing today and a House Sparrow chirped from the corner of the pub roof and that was it!

I kept looking skyward for some Pink Feet but did not see any.

Ah well at least we got out and about – better luck tomorrow perhaps.

Some House Sparrow somewhere in here

A bit of snow still present at the Kelham farm shop

Plenty of juice in the flood