Bad Timing (Soil Hill).

With news of a Short Eared Owl influx reported lately, I thought I'd try find one on Soil Hill!!

With snow forecast for this aft, I opted for my exercise walk this morning.

The house was enveloped in fog early doors , but a glimmer of brightness emerging at 9am , made me think that the fog would lift by the time I'd trudged up to Soil Hill.

Taylor Lane was still bottle ice in places and there is still lots of snow on the hill.

Unfortunately the fog remained quite thick throughout, and a snow shower arrived as I got to the top of the north slope.

No surprise , then, that birds were hard to come by.

Birds:

2 Wren, a few Common Gull and Black Headed Gull.

3 Magpie, a few Crows.

Stock Dove and Lapwing airborne.

Robin, Pheasant.

1 Fieldfare. 1 Mistle Thrush.

That was about all, but if you don't go and look.

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Heavy snow in Spain, apparently, and Scandinavia and Russia temperatures are below freezing during the day now, so here's hoping a Short Eared Owl (or two)  might appear on one of my exercise walks.

Last time I saw one, it was on Ringby Top, Swalesmoor.

Snowing here at the moment.

A bit of a change from AC's photo from this spot yesterday

The sun trying to peek out through the fog and snow.

Soil Hill north slope.