9:30 - 11:00.
I thought I'd have a try for a Snow Bunt.
A real ear-lug stinger on Soil Hill this morning, very cold with gale force winds.
Not much about up here at all really.
3 Meadow Pipit (2 heard, 1 seen) on the way up Taylor Lane.
The near resident Common Gull was on the covered reservoir field.
A couple of hardy Meadow Pipits still hanging in there, on Soil Hill.
A few Gulls on the lower Shay Fields.
The lower Soil Hill 'improvements' continue apace with reeds and bog fast disappearing, as I looked across the diggers, to Kelham.
Some good juice in the Raggalds Flood bodes well for the future, but for today just 9 small Gulls.
The Taylor Lane Little Owl was playing hide and seek and had moved to shelter.
I picked it out looking west from the Bonnet - on the way home.(I was looking West - The Owl wasn't).
Bradshaw/ Holdsworth.
13:15 - 15:45.
I tried birding a bit lower down this afternoon but the wind was still very strong.
I walked down to Holdsworth via Bradshaw Park and St, John's Farm and back via The Calderdale way.
Not a lot about.
Bradshaw Park:
3 Moorhen by the pond.
5 Goldfinch going ,11 Goldfinch on my return.
St. John's Farm fields:
A few small Gulls - mainly Common Gulls.
3 Herring Gull.
Holdsworth Area:
5 Mistle Thrush and 1 Fieldfare, Jay, Heron.
The Bradshaw fields seem to do well for Mistle Thrush.
A nice bonus of a single Fieldfare, landing high in a tree as I went through the park.
It did not stay though.
An enjoyable outing.
Soil Hill:
The Soil Hill 'Wheat Fields'
Bradshaw / Holdsworth:
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