An enjoyable birding walk around the Swalesmoor area today.
Cool in the breeze, very warm in shelter and dry throughout.
The pong was bearable as well!
I was hoping for Yellow Wag. but no joy today.
Ringby Top area:
Birds:
Many, many Corvids as usual here.
A Kestrel appeared, immediately mobbed by Corvids.
A second Raptor soon appeared, very high, a Peregrine Falcon which soon left towards Shibden.
Happy to get a half decent picture of it in flight for a change.
A few Pied Wagtail, 30 plus Meadow Pipit.
Groups of Linnet flitting about throughout 20 plus.
A Skylark left a field and burbled as it flew low.
A few groups of Starling - 15 ish.
Few Gulls here today - 1 Black Headed Gull and 1 Herring Gull overhead - none on the building roofs.
2 big brown Bulls , one in the fields on either side of the track, looked content.
Then one began to roar at the other across my path - time to get a clog on!
Hag Lane Circular:
13:15 - 14:15.
This is a lovely walk and always promises me more than it delivers - or is it my eyesight.
A cracking Green Woodpecker flushed from a field near the path to disappear into nearby trees.
Jay, c10 Linnet, Kestrel.
A good spot for a Peregrine up there John. Pretty special.
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