Bingley St. Ives / Soil Hiil to Home

We enjoyed an exercise walk around St. Ives estate this afternoon, with the obligatory coffee and cake in the small café there.

Sue dropped me on Percy Road on our way home so I could enjoy a birding walk home via Soil Hill.

I went up the main track, left at the quarry , and along the summit of Soil Hill and along Ned Hill Track, Percy Rd, Taylor Lane, Bradshaw Lane to home.

A moody dull sky and it was dark when I got home.

Birds:-

St. Ives:-

2 Flocks of Siskin (c 30 & c 20) flying about with a high pitched calls, landed very, very high in the dark canopy.

3 Nuthatch.

5 Mute Swan (one with ring 4Y91).

2 Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Many Small Gulls swarming around people feeding them.

Coot.

3 Moorhen.

Soil Hill:-

100 Fieldfare on Soil Hill.

Kestrel over the quarry.

A few Common Gulls overhead.

Nothing else.

2 Mistle Thrush seen along Bradshaw Lane.

I think the 2 Gulls on the left are Lesser Black-backed Gulls.

However there seems to be a huge sized difference between them.