A very cold morning with minus 3 on the car temperature gauge.
This morning I had the usual walk up Bradshaw Lane, Taylor Lane, Percy Rd and Soil Hill main tracks before coming down Ned Hill Lane and through the farms to home.
Some kind soul has dropped 8 big black bin bags at the end of Ned Hill Track.
You could see a long, long way from Soil Hill top today.
Good to chat to DJB on Bradshaw Lane this a.m.
An enjoyable outing and not as cold as I thought it was, before I set off.
For some further exercise I did it all again (nearly) in reverse order just before dark this evening (missing out Soil Hill main tracks).
The second outing was a tad better than the first, although both were enjoyable.
Birds:-
Stock Dove, 3 Mistle Thrush, 1 Lapwing (a.m.) 2 Lapwing (p.m.).
The four 'common' Gull species were seen today.
A pair of large Gulls high NE over Soil Hill looked 'interesting'.
Probably Lesser Black-backed although one is a mean looking brute?
c12 Fieldfare were in awful light seen from Percy Rd this am with a few Starlings.
I did better in the evening with 10 Redwing along Taylor Lane.
A Goldcrest, Blue, Great and Coal Tit were seen near Crabtree Hall Farm.
Usual Jackdaws and Crows here.
2 Little Owl (1 Bradshaw Fields, 1 Taylor Lane bottom looking N ).
3 Stonechat was a pleasing find - a pr. at the side of Ned Hill Road and a solitary one
in the enclosed Taylor Lane midden with a Robin.
8 Magpie - probably more . Love 'em or hate 'em they are doing well.
A single Red Legged Partridge was in a field above the Taylor Lane Midden as the light faded.
Dunnock, Wren and a few Blackbirds about,
A Fox in the Bradshaw Fields was marking its territory.
A Meadow Pipit was calling as the Fox passed by.
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