A busy day out and about today.
Given that we are all doomed with snow on the way (remember snow?) I thought we would have a run out today before we are snowed in next week!
Mid-morning we arrived at Hollingworth Lake and did the usual exercise walk around the circuit.
A cold 3 degrees early on lifted to 5 degrees a bit later.
After losing some calories on the walk, we both opted for some toasted tea bread and a scone to put fewer? calories back on again.
(£20! - no Wetherspoons here alas boo hoo).
On the way home Sue dropped me at Ogden to enjoy a birding walk around the water.
Home was via Ned Hill Grunt, Percy Road , Taylor and Bradshaw Lanes.
I was too tired and it was too late to venture over Soil Hill (soft sod).
Birds:-
Garden:
A very distant bird in the trees opposite our house is probably a Meadow Pipit?
Hollingworth Lake:
Probably 6 Great Created Grebe.
A pair of G.C.G curtseyed to one another but nothing more!
2 Pied Wagtail.
4 Goosander.
1 Teal!
2 Mute Swan.
I took a lot of Gull photos but did not pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Black Headed, Common, Herring and (a few) Lesser Black Backed Gulls seen.
Many Cormorant.
Coot, Moorhen.
Ogden:
Quiet again with the water very calm and still with c40 Small Gulls at one time.
A Great Crested Grebe was at the north end diving and grabbing tiddlers easily.
Raven.
Treecreeper.
Goldcrest.
Song Thrush belting a song out, behind the closed "visitor centre".
(I'm starting to miss the coffee in the visitors centre).
Ned Hill - Bradshaw:
A distant photo from the roadside end of Ned Hill Track revealed 6 or so distant birds flitting about. Hard to ID but the money is on Meadow Pipit.
2 Herring Gull over head.
Pheasant.
2 Fieldfare seen from Taylor Lane.
Kestrel Over Bradshaw Lane.
Peregrine Falcon elsewhere.
Methodist Chapel tea room Smithy Bridge not far from the lake good value Mike W
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