Ogden - There and Back.

I enjoyed a walk through the fields to Ogden and back this afternoon.

A windy start but it calmed down later. 

A few short showers and then some sunshine - a big improvement on the last two days!

Lots of waterlogged paths and fields today.

A short visit to Bradshaw Park for some 'football', late afternoon, with Abi and Sue revealed a singing Mistle Thrush and the fact that I am now a tired old giffer.

Birds:

Bradshaw Fields:-

Raven.

Buzzard mobbed by a Crow.

I thought I'd got a solitary Little Owl, but when I look at the photo there is a second one as well!!

(A Little Owl was seen (on the deck) as I looked West from Bradshaw Lane on my way  home from the Park - Probably one of the  earlier ones).

2 Red Legged Partridge.

3 Stock Doves.

Ogden Area:

No Gulls on the water, with a solitary Common Gull airborne.

A few smaller birds calling as I did the circuit remained hidden.

The circuit has proved tough to find owt special this winter (for me anyway).

13 Canada Geese.

3 Lapwing > N.

4 Mistle Thrush (2 singing).

Raven.

Buzzard.

7 Gulls, airborne later, did not land on the water either, and remained in  bright sun so I've no idea of the species.

1 Herring Gull over as I approached Back Lane and also here a slate-backed Sparrowhawk, low over the fields, disappeared into the conifers.

Two Little Owl