Pecker Hunt - Coach Road and Bradshaw/Soil Hill etc

9:30 - 13:30

A free day today so I had another try for the Lesser Pecker.
A dullish day, especially early on, mild but dry.
I parked near the Golf Club and did a couple circuits or the Golf Course, a couple of strolls up and down Coach Road and a look at Sefton avenue.
I enjoyed a chance meeting with M.St. on Coach Road and a stop for a butty at the Lightcliffe café was a welcome break.

Birds:

Lots of birdsong/calls today.

At least 5 Nuthatch.
2 Bullfinch, 2 Mistle Thrush.
3 Song Thrush, 6 Dunnock, Coal Tit.
2 Jay, Greenfinch.
Treecreeper.
A late Brambling was a pleasant surprise.

3 Great Spotted Woodpecker (2 Drumming).

and a few others.

(The Lesser P. remained incognito).

Bradshaw - Soil Hill etc.

15:00 -17:00

Another outing this aft. making the best of the weather, saw me on the Wheatear hunt - but not seeing any!
Nevertheless a good afternoon out and about.

Birds:

3 Little Owl.
4 Meadow Pipit.
2 Red Legged Partridge, flushed from underfoot to land a good way off!
5 Skylark.
3 Curlew.
3 Kestrel.
65 Woodpigeon see from Ned Hill Track.
Single Herring Gull seen from Ned Hill Track.
6 Lapwing.
Moorhen.
2 Pheasant.
3 Pied Wagtail.

A Heron was eating defenceless frogs, from the very distant small pond to the right of the Soil Hill Quarry - who wants to be a frog! 
Sacre Bleu!

Coach Road Area:

If you can hear this bird call- what is it??

Bradshaw / Soil Hill:

Kestrel ?