I seem to be stuck in local birding mode at the moment with yet another local walk along the fields and up Ned Hill to look at Soil Hill Top.
I was hoping for.... well lets not go there.
Another quite cold but sunny day with a nagging E or NE wind keeping birds at bay?
Tomorrow (It's always tomorrow, isn't It?) we are due some south in the wind and some welcome heat.
Chris next door tells me he whacked a spider with a shoe, he was wondering what happened to the other seven.
Speaking of spiders.
Sue nudged me the other morning at 5:30 am!! with a "I can't sleep with the monster looking at me".
I raised my eyebrows??, but she pointed to the wall next to the ceiling, where a large spider was asleep.
So after turning off the alarm, going downstairs to get a container to catch the wee fellow and getting a chair for me to stand on (I suffer from height-less syndrome) and a tickling stick thing that Sue uses to dust, and unlocking the window. I manged to release the wee fellow into the wild and get back to sleep, without it shedding a leg!
Birds:-
2 Green Woodpeckers called nearly all day.
C25 Meadow Pipit - good to see some at last.
2 Skylark.
2 Partridge Species flushed. I just caught them in a photo, but I cannot say with conviction what species, I think they are Grey.
A Snipe flushed at distance, from a boggy bit of Soil Hill main path, called and left.
Pr. Little Owl.
3 Stock Doves.
Greenfinch calling in 3 different areas.
2 Kestrel.
3 Common Gull.
An optimistic, distant photo of the shay fields, reveals c20 Lapwing when I zoom it up a bit on the laptop.
An enjoyable jaunt,
A Chiffchaff was singing / calling in B&Q car park.
A Pair of Peregrine was seen elsewhere.
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