Saturday, 26 February 2022

Raggalds Flood / Home - Soil Hill Circular / Garden

A walk up to Raggalds Flood this morning was a cold breezy affair.

Just 1 Black Headed Gull on the water.

This afternoon I enjoyed a cool, but very windy outing along the local fields and around Soil Hill - back via Taylor Lane.

A rat was seen in a barn as I went through the farm buildings and a bit further along and  a high pitched squeal that  came from some large stones could have been a Weasel, but I did not eyeball the squealer.

Birds:-

Nothing much doing until Soil Hill.

A Partridge species flushed immediately flying 'early doors' from the north side of Soil Hill it flew quickly down the north side to the fields below.

Just a Pr. Mallard and a Moorhen on NK pond.

c25 Lapwing with Starling were seen in fields, North as well, on the very limit of my camera and bins.

A bird flushed as I walked the quarry top footpath and I manged to track it with the bins and get a half decent photo of a Skylark - my first this year (Hopefully many more to come).

(Where are all the Meadow Pipits?).

2 wild Wabbits were in a Taylor Lane house garden.

Pr. Pheasant were near the midden, further along.

2 Lapwing and a few small Gulls were just visible on the Raggalds Flood, seen from the top of Percy Road.

A cold half hour, late afternoon garden sky watch brought me a Heron and a very distant,  Raptor, very high over Oats Royd, drifted south (Buzzard ?).


Some L S Lowry Golfers.
On Ogden, seen from Soil Hill








Raptor, high, over Oats Royd.



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