Thursday, 13 October 2022

Ogden to Bradshaw

A beautiful warm and sunny day today with some reading and sky watching this morning in the garden bringing just a Pied Wagtail over the house!!

2 Geese were very, very high over White Windows Sowerby Bridge this a.m.

A lucky photo caught them as 'specks' - Canada Geese I think?

A Kestrel was seen in Bradshaw on our way there.

We took Emma to MacDonald's for lunch and afterwards Sue dropped me at Ogden, late this afternoon, so I could enjoy a birding walk home.

(Pity no one informed the birds!!).

Still a lovely day for a walk.

Birds:-

Ogden:

Drake Tufted Duck, Kestrel.

Gulls:

Usual Gull species on the water as far as I could tell.

A  would be Yellow Legged Gull is a Lesser Black-backed Gull in bright light I think?

Something flushed the lot - but I did not see what!

Usual small birds around the circuit.

Ogden to Bradshaw (Via Soil Hill Main Track).

I gave Ned Hill Track a miss today, with dogs and dog walkers there.

Very, very quiet again, a typical Mid October outing for me it would seem.

A few Gulls in the fields and a calling Meadow Pipit (not seen) along Soil Hill Track.

A Buzzard was on a very distant pylon - seen from Bradshaw Lane.

A potential large Raptor was way, way off high over Queensbury, seen from Taylor Lane top, was soon lost in the sky! 

It shows as a black pin-prick on my photo alas.



Canada Geese High over Sowerby Bridge?



(Above) Lesser Black-backed Gull in bright sunlight Ogden


Something Flushed the lot - I cannot see a Mega - but.....


Herring Gull in Taylor Lane Fields.









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