Thornton Cycle Track and Local Circular Walk

A better day today , dry, cool, breezy as we had our walk along the cycle track, to Queensbury tunnel , and we stopped for a café visit on the way back.

Not a birding walk but a few birds did pop up, now and then.

After lunch I enjoyed my usual (even breezier) local birding stroll taking in Ned Hill Track and Soil Hill main track.

Great to be out and about.

Birds:

Cycle Track:

Sparrowhawk, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Bullfinch, a few Gulls.

Local Circular:

Little Owl, Common Gull, Black Headed Gull, Herring Gull.

Great Spotted Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush.

Starlings, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk.

In excess of 390 Gulls(give or take 10 or so!) in the fields across Thornton Road looking north from Soil Hill top, together with a good few Lapwing.

Shame that the distance is so great, with the Gulls hard to ID even using max. zoom on my camera.

Elsewhere Today:

Peregrine Falcon.

Cycle Track Sparrowhawk - best I could do as it zoomed past.

Spot the Great Spotted Woodpecker.

There is a Great Spotted Woodpecker Calling

from theses trees - but I can't see it!

Gulls / Lapwing - beyond Thornton Road

One of a few photos taken on high zoom.

Still difficult to ID