Another Cold / Hot day - wet early on, sunny this afternoon.
I had a short walk this morning while Abi was getting her act together.
I managed to escape from home to walk over Soil Hill and down to Ogden while the ladies did their thing.
I had a look at the north slope venturing down 20 yds or so before realising that I'll have to remove it from my flight path - it is very, very overgrown and the incline is too tough for me negotiate these days.
It was good to chat with Geoff the farmer along Ogden Lane.
Just one circuit of the water before the family taxi arrived with the straight jacket just as I was finishing my coffee and choc biscuit in the visitor centre.
Birds:-
Local Fields a.m.
2 Starling and 7 Mistle Thrush in a conifer before moving to a 'very berried' Mountain Ash (3 Mistle Thrush over the house at 7.30 this evening).
2 Swallow. 4 Meadow Pipit.
Chiffchaff, Wren, Goldfinch, Greenfinch and House Sparrow all heard.
Little Owl.
Bradshaw to Soil Hill:
7 Swallow along Bradshaw Lane and a few low over the Syke Lane fields with a couple over the house later.
15 Common Gull, 3 Stock Dove.
c30 Goldfinch flock.
4 Meadow Pipit (6 bobbing birds near home later - probably Meadow Pipit).
A couple of Lesser Black-backed Gull over Soil Hill.
3 Buzzard sightings from Soil Hill (not sure how many birds though).
One of the Buzzards? was on the wall by the standing stones but not for long. Very long wings see poor photo.
35 Canada Geese in the Shay Fields.
Gulls in the fields beyond Denholme velvets.
3 Moorhen on NK pond.
Nothing seen in the 20yds I ventured down the north slope with my Mr Magoo head on.
Ogden:
Not a lot.
Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Gull, Black Headed Gull. Mallard.
A Great Crested Grebe was way out in the middle.
Garden:
Buzzard, 5 Swallow.
A possible Raptor species (not a Sparrowhawk, Kestrel or Buzzard anyway) was very, very high.
Flying mostly south, meandering off line a bit, but intent on getting somewhere was out of camera range.
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