School holidays are here and it was dentist and shopping for the ladies today so I had a free day.
I had a drive over to Swalesmoor and had a welly walk up the main track past the recycling buildings across Queensbury Road and down Howcans Bridleway for 1/4 of a mile or so before trudging back.
Tough going to find much today, I went with the hope that an Owl species might be out hunting given the wet weather yesterday but no luck.
It was dry, cloudy and breezy here - not bad for a walk as long as you put the nose peg on.
After lunch I enjoyed a traipse up to Soil Hill, over the apex on the main tracks along Ned Hill Track and home again.
Quite warm, which fooled me, (easy done), with the big jumper superfluous to requirements.
Birds - Swales and Howcans:
9 Linnet, 3 Swift, 2 Whitethroat, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gull over in ones.
2 Buzzard, distant, to my east.
3 Pied Wagtail.
Wren, a few Goldfinch and House Sparrow.
Howcans Bridleway was unusually quite with 2 Swallow, a singing Chiffchaff and a Blue Tit or 3!
Meadow Brown and Red Admiral Butterflies in abundance.
Birds - Soil Hill Circular:
4 Common Gull, 2 Black Headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Herring Gull.
2 Swallow, 4 Pheasant, 3 Stock Dove.
c50 Woodpigeon.
Willow Warbler or Chiffchaff calling,
10 or so Meadow Pipit,
2 Whitethroat was a nice find though.
A Little Owl was behind DJB's house.
Some, probably Buzzard, hunger calls, hereabouts also.
Swales and Howcans:
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