A cold start to todays walk especially on a wet and squally Soil Hill.
The squally showers packed up more or less by the time I got to Ogden Water.
It was windy for most of the outing today.
Ogden car park had 70+ cars!
(You know it's one of those stunning stunning days when you have to resort to counting cars in a car park).
Birds:-
Disappointing sums it up.
A few Common and Black Headed Gulls in the Bradshaw Fields. Nothing of note along Taylor Lane and Percy Road.
A very Windy Soil Hill had 3 or 4 Meadow Pipit.
A Snipe flushed from 100 yds away, called, rose in the sky before disappearing below the hill/mounds.
Always a good bird to see.
A Kestrel was being mobbed by 2 Crow types above Ned Hill Track.
A Pheasant in the plantation.
Not much happening at Ogden Water.
A 1st year Herring Gull (?) was trying to decide what to do with a 'dogs ball' that it had picked up.
(And I'm trying to decide if it is a Herring or Lesser Black-backed).
Fortunately, for the dog, the ball was not attached to it!
A Cormorant and the usual Gull sp.
Nothing seen along Passerine Alley, a few Chaffinch and Coal Tit heard.
3 Pied Wagtail along Cow Hill Gate Road was me lot.
Nevertheless an enjoyable bit of exercise.
I was wrong about Ogden Water filling up quickly - there is still a long way to go to Tipping Point.
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