Soil Hill etc.. Monday

For this afternoon's exercise walk I went up to the Raggalds Flood, Percy Lane Corner, Field path past Soil Hill quarry, Ned Hill and Bradshaw Farm track to home.

A dull, drizzly affair - windy on the hill.

Birds:-

Not a lot!

Raggalds- 4 Small Gulls with a Herring Gull that soon left, and one Lapwing.

A Heron near the small pond, on the right, just before Soil Hill quarry.

Soil Hill:

Two Meadow Pipit.

The lower NK pond looked frozen over.

5 Mallard overhead - One Female bird, Four Males.

I'm trying to turn the one Female Mallard into a Gadwall but I think it's wishful thinking.

Gulls passing through included one Lesser Back-backed Gull.

The fields near Ogden held C70 Small Gulls.

Nearing home a just a Wren and a Little Owl that took some finding as it sheltered below a wall, out of the rain.

Heavy rain forecast for the next 2 days... Yuk!