Bradshaw Lane - Taylor Lane - Soil Hill - Percy Road

12:30 - 15:0

The usual birding walk this aft on a lovely warm sunny day with a cooling breeze on the hill.

Birds:

A look for the Taylor Lane Little Owl failed but a Wheatear was on the wall here.
(oops - see comments).

Higher up at the Midden and Thresher field a Little Owl sat among the tyres and other broken farm machinery.

Along Ned Hill Track, Herring Gull, 6 Goldfinch, Wren, solitary Meadow Pipit.

Soil Hill had a few interesting moments.
A Skylark flushed from the diagonal path to the hill, without a call.
Moorhen on the lower NK pond.
4 or so Meadow Pipit.

A Skylark sized bird flew calling/singing around the hill then I lost it as it dropped down towards the Thornton traffic lights area.
Its flight and call/song seemed similar to a Sand Martin and it was brown and very light underneath.
(One that got away - a lifer no doubt - they always are).

2nd Skylark flushed, this time a call and a burbling song as it disappeared.

A Snipe flushed from a watery tractor rut by the quarry edge.

A Mallard flushed from the grotty pool along the main track.

Also here a Chaffinch - unusual for here.

A Kestrel was on the pylon wires near the Bonnet hill.

Several Gulls were in the Roper Lane fields a mix of Common and Black Headed with one Lesser Black-backed by the looks of it.

An enjoyable few hours.