A short drive out to Swalesmoor after lunch this afternoon and a walk up Ringby Lane past the recycling plant and back.
Warm and sometimes sunny but very, very windy on the tops (again).
There were a few birds about to keep the interest ticking along nicely but just 2 Butterflies.
A Wall butterfly was one of them , thanks to a heads up from DJS earlier (I don't do Butterflies - Yet).
Unfortunately it no sooner appeared than it disappeared over a wall.
Birds:-
Skylark, Meadow Pipit.
Whitethroat singing, the bird trying to match my whistling rendition of "Spark by Amy Macdonald" - the bird had NO chance!
Linnet.
c10 Lesser Black-backed Gulls here, with c20 following a tractor in a mown field further to the south of me,
An enjoyable outing but the constant wind is a real pain - now where are the Rennies.
Earlier Hawkeye Sue spotted 2 Buzzards high near City Road Brackenbed ,while we returning from the Tip ,(Sue's was driving, I was looking for birds from the passenger seat Doh!).
Amy Macdonald .... Spark click here.
Thought you might get a wall up there - nice one John the other one is a Small Tortoiseshell. Those Whitethroats and Skylarks seem to be doing pretty well up there.
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