Bradshaw - Holdsworth Area – Oats Royd

13:15 – 15:15

June finale.

I had a stroll to Oats Royd this afternoon via the Holdsworth area and spent a good hour there.

My impression of the weather forecast had me don my waterproofs before I set off but the big black clouds did not drop owt on  me ‘ed.

It was a lot warmer that I though as well and by the time I got home I was in a real sweat.

Birds:

Not a lot happening really.

20+ Swallow, Meadow Pipit, Singing Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler.

A bird was on the soil and then in/on the wall – 2^nd gap stile up from the ponds – looking at the leg colour - a Chiffchaff (I think).

The ponds held 3 Geese and a Moorhen.

A smallish Raptor made the most fleeting of appearances, above the conifers.

I managed just one photo before it vanished, and I've no idea what it is!!

Well - I've an Idea it's a Sparrowhawk but the tail looks 'wrong'. Then again it could be a Kestrel!!

On the way home Bradshaw Park had just a Mistle Thrush, a Juv. Pied Wagtail and a few other sp.

Overgrown path at Holdsworth

Spot the Chiffchaff

Overgrown path around the ponds

The remains of a Magpie I think

UNID Raptor 1.

2. Cropped

3. Lightened

4. Lightened and cropped