I had a sit in the garden contemplating me navel with my winter coat and gloves on this cold morning.
I did actually see some birds as well.
For lunch we had a run out to Wildes café at cross roads, beyond Denholme.
We came home via Fly Flats (with a bit of persuasion ) along Sue's least favourite road in the world - the Oxenhope to Wainstalls road.
I had a very quick walk through the north end stile down to the waters' edge but there is no shoreline and just Canada Geese here.
A scan across the water, into the glare, revealed a flying Common Sandpiper.
I legged it back to Sue in the car and although we stopped a couple of times along the road to check the water the glare and the distance , kyboshed any half decent photos.
Mid-afternoon I had a walk through Bradshaw Park to Holdsworth and back.
Nothing special seen but 2 Oystercatcher passed overhead twice.
The sky came really, really (that's two really's - that is) dark so I legged it double time up Bradshaw Lane but I needn't have bothered with only 3 drips and a dollop dropping.
Birds:
Garden:
Curlew unless it's not!, Mistle Thrush. Coal Tit.
Fly Flats:
3 Red Legged Partridge.
Mallard.
2 Large Gulls with 1 very Large Gull - pictures rubbish.
Canada Geese.
Common Sandpiper.
Skylark, Meadow Pipit.
Lapwing.
Odd ball White Goose with probably 2 Greylag Geese.
Holdsworth Walk:
Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Long Tailed Tit.
2 maybe 4 Oystercatcher.
Bradshaw Fields p.m.
The usual late evening stroll up the bog path to the fields.
Linnet, Pheasant, Wheatear.
Still hanging on here was the Ring Ouzel that clicked / clacked from a tree before flying into another - then off somewhere else!
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Thursday Evening Local:
A cold walk up ' The Bog' Thursday evening was a quiet affair.
Birds:-
Wheatear (took some finding).
Linnet. Mistle Thrush.
Pied Wagtail.
4 Meadow Pipit.
2 Mallard.
A Large Duck ? overhead was to quick for me!!
The weather is to warm up at the weekend so something juicy might arrive?
Thursday Evening:
Today:
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