A birding walk from Denholme Velvets car park along Thornton Rd to check out the lower reaches of Soil Hill was followed by a walk up the bridleway to the abattoir ruin nr. Back Lane, Ogden and then a short circular route up Foreside Lane, across to 'Blackwall Lane' (I think its called) and back to the car.
A sharp, cold n/nw wind was present throughout, not helping, but it was dry and sunny.
Soil Hill Area:
c10 Lapwing, 4 Curlew, 2 Pied Wagtail over.
Meadow Pipit and a large flock of very mobile Starlings was all I could muster.
Elsewhere:
c10 Lapwing, 4 Curlew, 4 Meadow Pipit.
Little Owl (calling not seen).
2 Pheasant, 2 Stock Dove.
A Snipe flushed silently rising without any zig-zag to land again within 100 yds.
The 'colour' contrasts seem quite 'vivid' if that makes sense!
(Probably flushed too soon to be a Jack Snipe though).
I was hoping for Wheatear, with some sightings reported on the grapevine today, but I'll have to wait a bit yet!
A large helping of frog spawn was present in the bog of 'big bog' field in very little water.
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