Friday, 13 March 2020

Jay House Lane - Soil Hill - and a Snow Bunt Mystery

Jay House Lane:
10:00 - 13:00

I met up with JM at Jay House Lane this morning and we had an hours birding together before JM left and I had another nosy about.
A cool bright morning with very little wind which made a pleasant change.
I also bumped into Mick and Kath (Spurn Point birders) and enjoyed a short chin wag.

Birds:-

Tree Sparrow.
House Sparrow.
Dunnock.
Pr. Stonechat, on the muck heap and later very distant on the long grasses lower down.
2 Singing Song Thrush.
3 Curlew (Mick and Kath had 7 or so over).
2 Alba Wagtail.
5 Moorhen.
Many Common and Black Headed Gull.
Skylark singing.
Lapwing.
Both Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker heard, neither seen.
Greenfinch.
3 Raptors high - 2 Buzzard for definate.
Long Tailed Tit.
Wren.
Noisy Rooks in a Rookery.
Collard Dove.
Woodpigeon.
Pr. Bullfinch.
2Jay.

...and a few others.

Soil Hill
13:00 - 14:30

I called at Soil Hill on the way home.
Very pleasant and virtually tropical along Ned Hill Track.
2 Stock Dove.
2 Lapwing.
4 Mallard.
c50 Woodpigeon.
3 Singing Skylark.
Pheasant.
3 Curlew.
Heron.

Snow Bunting Mystery.

Just finished cleaning me boots when I got a phone call from BS re: a Snow Bunting seen somewhere below Taylor Lane > Bradshaw.

I had a slow walk up the road to the Taylor Lane area and back again scanning the fields but came up blank.
A very large area to cover and a small bird to find!

2 Herring Gull and a Greenfinch were of note.

Abi to entertain, this afternoon, otherwise I would have probably spent a bit longer on the search, but on a bright day like today, the bird had probably moved on?

Not best pleased with my photographs today!



Jay House Lane:-














3 Raptors ?






Soil Hill etc.





Whimbrel looking Curlew


Long Legged Common Gull.




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