Back on the circuit

13:20 – 14:45

After a bit of catching up at home, following our holiday on the Isle of Wight I managed an hour or so on Soil Hill this afternoon.

Dull and cloudy mostly with nuisance drizzle now and then.

There was no sign of the Little Owls in the 2 regular places.

No birdsong on Soil Hill which was spookily quiet.

A guy came off soil Hill, walking an Alsatian,he  passed me on the main track this may have had a bearing on the lack of birdlife?

I kept to the main track today and there were Black Headed Gull and a few Lesser Black-backed gull passing overhead with several BHG in the fields.

3 groups of 8 or so Starling and a c100 group were seen.

Just Pheasant, 6 Meadow Pipit and a Whitethroat (carrying food) were on the hill with a few other sp.

2 noisy Mistle Thrush were calling at the top of Taylor Lane.

One of the Mistle Thrush  (perhaps a juv.) made the usual call regularly but it also made a more squeaky call just a couple of times. I've not witnessed this call before?

I enjoyed a nice chat with a lady at Railes House on the bridleway as I approached home.