Friday, 8 October 2021

Bradshaw Fields, Ned Hill, Soil Hill (Main Track) etc

Another cracking October day with some very warm sunshine.

I had 2 1/2 hour birding walk around my local-ish area.

(No sign of any Little Owl today).

I went along the fields , up Ned Hill, along Percy and down Taylor Lane with 2 short diversions. 1 along Ned Hill Track, 1 Along Soul Hill main track.

Earlier, the grapevine was buzzing with "local" Pinkie sightings.

I spent quite a while in the garden sky scanning, and of the 4 local sightings I managed to pick out exactly zero.

(It was then I realised that I had the "thick" end of my bins to my eyes).

(Just a few Gulls in the sky with a possible Buzzard salvaged from one of the photos).

Birds:-

1 Kestrel.

4 Stonechat (very mobile along Ned Hill Track) ... Possibly more than 4.

2 Snipe flushed. 

Both called and left, flying fairy low, but not landing.

1 just beyond the mast on soil hill track. The second near the corner "puddle" . Both were snapped immediately but somehow manage to miss the lens (mostly).

A family of Pheasant were in the Taylor Lane midden.

A few Meadow Pipits was about all.



Possible Buzzard?






3 Stonechat







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