The weather forecast reliably informed me that the rain was to arrive at 15:00 so, at 13:00, I ventured out to walk up to Soil Hill hoping for a scarce Bunting.
Not the finest idea I 've ever had as I was met by a gale blowing up there, poor visibility and nasty drizzly stuff.
To top it all the elastic keeping my hood tight snapped, die-a-boll-e-cal.
I went up the main track, turned right at the quarry and looped round to join Percy Road at the corner.
I'm sure the 2nd field stile gap is shrinking - I had a right job getting through it avoiding the barbed wire.
Ah! well, it's good exercise, and there could have been a mega.
Birds:-
Taylor Lane: 3 Fieldfare in among a sizeable Starling flock.
Soil Hill: A Blackbird flushed with a loud squawk.
5 Ducks flushed fast from the small pool on the main track, immediately swallowed by the mist. They seemed to have lots of white, I thought Wigeon, straight off but they could just as easily been Mallard.
No photo because my camera was sheltering from the rain at the time, soft sod that it is.
My next camera is going to be tough, with "Wimpey" tattooed on the lens cap and muscles in its zoom.
All I can say for definite is they weren't Bombay Duck.
A Pheasant along the field edge completed a memorable afternoon's birding.
(Abi with us all next week so we will see how my birding fits in with her wishes!).
Some extraordinarly great photos:-
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