10:25 - 11:45.
Birds hard to come by throughout.
Cold and sunny with a chilly SE breeze, strong in places on the top.
(Snow Bunt hunt).
1 Fieldfare early on with 6 more later.
A Raven mobbed by smaller Corvids.
Green Woodpecker airborne.
3 Pied Wagtail, Wren, Dunnock.
c20 Starling. Gulls very distant.
Possible short burble from a Skylark in the long grass, but I could not locate it!
2 Meadow Pipit, Jay, 20 House Sparrow.
A Kestrel was disturbed by the Helicopter, landing!
Hag Lane circular.
11:45 - 12:50
Hoping to improve my fortunes I clogged on.
This is a real beaut. of a walk when the sun shines like today.
Green Woodpecker calling from the valley.
A few Rook in the fields.
2 Wren.
80 Starling ( 20, 40,20).
5 Goldfinch.
A small bird by a ruin was probably a Robin.
Although a Wren was at the ruin when I got there.
Bradshaw - Soil Hill.
13:45 - 15:20.
Undeterred, another Snow Bunt hunt.
Raven.
A Raptor very, very high mobbed by a Gull is probably a Sparrowhawk but it looks very long bodied?
The picture at the long distance aint too great, but I was pleased to get any photo at the distance!
3 Meadow Pipit.
2 Starling.
2 or 3 Kestrel.
Pheasant.
A Cormorant was on Mixenden Res - seen from Soil Hill top!
I told you birds were hard to come by!!
2 Really awful Raptor photos
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