A beautiful day today, hardly a cloud in the sky.
My usual Saturday morning pastime of playing UNO with Abi was interrupted for a bit while I went into the garden to move some leaves about.
This proved a great move, as I was talking to Tracey next door a bird with an unusual call was heard. We both scanned the sky and eventually I spotted the 'White Goose" mega high leaving south. I fired off 3 photos and managed to ID it from them - A Whooper Swan- magic.
We did our usual Shibden Park duck food scatter, walkabout, football and café visit late morning.
Just the usual birds here as far as I could tell.
After lunch I enjoyed an hour or so birding with a walk through Matthew's Farm, up Ned Hill, along the track for a short distance and along Soil Hill Main track for a short distance.
A quad bike was on the top of the hill so I guessed that the rare 'Snipe' species, that I was certain to see, had been flushed by the noise, so I did not linger.
Birds:
Garden Watch:
Whooper Swan, Raven.
Shibden Park:
Mallard, Black Headed Gull, Canada Goose, 1 Mute Swan.
Coot, Moorhen, White Goose.
Bradshaw - Soil Hill circular:
Pheasant.
Little Owl.
2 (maybe 3) Stonechat along Ned Hill Track.
2 Wren, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Black Headed Gull.
c30 Starlings, 2 Blackbird.
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