The usual walk this aft.
Breezy on a very quiet Soil Hill but pleasantly warm around Ogden and a bit of perspiration on the slog up to Percy Road on the return leg.
Birds:-
Bradshaw to Soil Hill.
Little Owl, 2 very distant Curlew below Soil Hill north end, Kestrel.
A few Meadow Pipit and Sklylark.
Ned Hill Track to Ogden Water.
A lot of Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the move.
A group of 6 with one very vociferous - possibly a Herring Gull but I cannot distinguish the call of a Herring Gull from a LBBG.
A very elusive Willow Warbler, Song Thrush and a Greenfinch on Ned Hill Track, Kestrel,Linnets.
A second Little Owl.
17:05 Ogden Water.
A slow saunter around the water where there were c200 Gulls as I arrived and c30 as I left.
Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Black Headed and
One very vociferous Gull , maybe the one seen / heard earlier.
5 Cormorant and a couple of Canada Geese.
3 tiny Mallard chicks were on the water.
Very pleased to pick out this Little Owl
An escaping Curlew on the left
Cropped
Another very poor Curlew snap
And a few more..
Another very distant photo - but I can't turn it into anything other that a curlew.
Spot the Song Thrush
It's a while since I've seen so many Gulls at Ogden.
So I photographed a good deal of them
in case I've missed a Mega -
Sorry!!
Middle Gull possibly a Herring Gull?
Mallard chicks looking for Kevlar vests
This Cormorant was swimming very low in the water
and the dive was very shallow so - it's a Cormorant!
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