Friday, 8 July 2022

Local Circular Via Soil Hill

A smashing evening for a stroll along the fields to Ned Hill bottom, the usual grunt up Ned Hill. I bypassed Ned Hill Track - too windy. A walk up Soil Hill main track then a right above the quarry to contour round to near Percy Road.

The field adjacent Percy Road had some large cows 'braying loudly' and I decided to retrace my steps back over soil hill.

Home via Taylor Lane and Bradshaw Lane.

This morning I had an hour or so up the local fields on a breezy, very warm outing.

Loads of Brown Butterflies.

Birds:-

Morning Stroll:

3 Red Legged Partridge, c15 Swallow, Kestrel.

Little Owl, Whitethroat singing loudly throughout.

Meadow Pipit.

A Buzzard was seen, high, over Oats Royd from the garden later.

Evening Circular:

Goldfinch family.

Pheasant with 4 large offspring.

Headless Pheasant chick along Soil Hill main track - Sparrowhawk prey?

4 Kestrel, 18 Mistle Thrush > S, landed on a pylon.

Skylark, Meadow Pipit.

Whitethroat, Stock Dove.













1 comment:

  1. Butterfly looks like a Ringlet, John. Plenty about at the moment as well as Meadow Browns. Not always easy to distinguish the two species i d in flight. Keep working on it !!!!
    Dave

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