Sue dropped me off at Ogden on her way to town.
Very wet again this afternoon but as it's been a day since my last soaking I was missing the experience.
Quite a long birding stint this aft but not much to show for it and a real job keeping the camera dry.
Birds:
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull,2 Common Gull, 7 Black-headed Gull on the water at one point - Gulls coming and going throughout.
Both a Dipper and a Kingfisher were in the very murky depths of the sluice area.
3 Song Thrush, Many Blackbird, Robin, Wren, 2 Jay, Chaffinch.
Treecreeper.
A largish contingent of small birds were moving through the north end bushes on my second circuit including - c12 Long Tailed tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal, Tit, 4 Goldcrest with another 2 Goldcrest seen a bit further along.
The 'highlight' of the outing was when I went for a Jimmy Riddle into the woods at the north end and got a different sort of riddle!
A small Raptor, was chasing a small bird when in say me it changed direction with amazing speed, it's wings and tail splayed like a fan as it turned.
The bird was Little Owl sized but much, much slimmer.
The only colour I could discern was brown!
It all happened in a few seconds and the Raptor was lost in the trees.
Best guess is a Merlin, although it is an odd place for it to hunting?
Perhaps the bad weather had brought the bird in off the moors to try it's luck in the woods.
Either way one that got away.
Along the way I enjoyed a chat with Ian from Queensbury who had seen a Pr. Nuthatch.
p.s. Viewing the blog on a Kindle Fire the view seems to have gone a bit haywire?
Best I could do in the rain and murky sluice area.
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