Ogden & Bradshaw

12:30 – 15:00

After a bit of snow shovelling this morning I decided to give Ogden a coat of looking at this afternoon.

A mix of snow, hail, rain and sun were all on offer today.

If I was a banjo player I’d have called myself Slim Pickings on today’s performance.

There was not a lot happening, but with my recent Redstart sighting at Bolton Abbey, and being a deluded optimist, I had a look for Redstart in the small scrubby bushes ,on the right of the main path up to The Withens.

Needless to say I came up blank – it took all my patience to get a Robin today.

Great Tit,Chaffer, Wren, Long Tailed Tit and Robin were the only birds I came across in the woods.

Even the trick of banging a stick, rapidly, against a rotten tree stump, to attract Woodpecker, didn’t work – mind you it seldom does for me.

Earlier a LBBG went over > W and on the water there were just 2 Canada Geese and a few Mallard.

 I was hoping a Wader might have dropped in.

The outing was finally salvaged with the sighting of c10 Linnet, far off in the fields on Cow Hill Gate Lane – my first Linnet of the year. 

The picture’s rubbish though.

Also here a couple of Swallow!!

Earlier still a Mistle Thrush had nabbed all the Meal Worms that I’d put out for the resident Blackbird.

I didn’t mind it having a few, but all! The Blackbird looked a bit miffed when it turned up for some grub.

I don’t normally feed the birds after winter, but seeing it is still winter…..

Enjoy the week-end - there's a heatwave on the way - you heard it here first.

Looking over the golf course

The scrubby bushes area

In the woods

Leaving Ogden towards Union Lane

A few "spot the Linnet" pictures

Cow Hill Gate lane fields

The best pic. of a bad bunch