I was on the look out for Chats today - should have gone to the chippy!
Very breezy with the odd drop of rain, mild in the intermittent sunshine.
A walk up Foreside Lane and a left across the big, boggy field.
Then up again to pass the old abattoir building and on to Back Lane.
I also took the opportunity to scan Soil Hill as I walked along Thornton Rd for a while.
Birds:-
Amazingly 1st bird seen was a Little Owl!
Bird of the outing though was a Stonechat albeit very distant, seen early on - then presumably the same bird a bit later on in the outing.
c80 mostly large Gulls were resting in the fields with 20 or so strewn about the nearby fields - mainly Lesser Black-backed Gulls with a few Herring Gulls.
Also seen were Black Headed Gulls and Common Gulls.
One Meadow Pipit!
3 Swift, 16 Canada Geese.
A Curlew called constantly, flying around periodically.
(Probably getting a bit late for Curlew sightings now).
c10 Swallow with one entering the stable block.
8 Goldfinch on a massive field of Thistle - blowing 'white hairs' all over the shop.
House Sparrows.
2 Blackbird.
c10 Linnet.
One of my Gull photos show what could be a Snipe sp. in the grass - then again in could be pile of...
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