10:15 - 11:30
Where has all the snow gone!!
A very foggy start to proceedings today at Bradshaw but with a walk around Birdcage Lane area on the agenda, while Sue entertained her dad, the fog was not a great problem.
It is a very interesting area with lots of Oak Trees and plenty of Ivy etc.
Birdcage Lane held the usual birds. Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit and Long Tailed Tit.
A calling Nuthatch greeted me as I went down Birdcage Hill.
A 'solitary' Redwing was a nice 'spot' well camouflaged in a tree .......... then c30 Redwing rose in unison, from the woodland floor, into the trees!!
Another calling Nuthatch and 2 calling Jay came next, along with a Great Spotted Woodpecker , calling from Scarr Bottom Road area.
I went towards the call where there were '100's' of Woodpigeon but no Woodpecker 'spotted'.
Another nice 'spot' was, what I thought was another Woodpigeon type, but which morphed into a Male Sparrowhawk , when I got the bins on it.
A look at the river revealed a few Mallard and a short stroll along the canal held another couple of Jay.
Later in the afternoon we had a late leg stretcher from home up Ingham Lane along to Ogden, then up Keighley Road for a 16:30 stop at Asa Nich's - just got in there under the wire.
The walk home, past Keelham farm shop was a chilly affair with a cold north easterly wind for company.
Just a few lapwing seen near Ogden with possibly 2 Stock Doves flying past at a good lick and although the Raggalds Flood has plenty of juice it did not have any bird life.
Top Tip:
If you purchase a new mobile phone, and the mobile phone shop geezer, tells you he has copied you phone records to your phone from you sim - always check that he is not telling porkies BEFORE cutting you old sim card in two.
OOPs - now where is that manual record I keep of all my numbers - I haven't a B clue!!
Birdcage Hill Area:
Spot the Jay
Nearer Home:
Distant Lapwings over Ogden
Even more distant Stock Doves.
A damp Raggalds Flood
Nice Sparrowhawk John
ReplyDeleteThanks.
ReplyDelete(nice Lesser Pecker).
John