Sue went for a long breakfast with her best buddy today and left me all on my lonesome - oh diddum's.
I wondered how I might spend my lonely time and BINGO!
I came up with a cracking idea - why not go for a local birding walk.
I had a really enjoyable late morning - mid-afternoon outing.
I went across the fields to Ogden Water, around the water and up towards Back Lane.
I sat a while hereabouts and noshed my lunch sat on a big comfy stone.
Along Back Lane and up Ned Hill Lane , along Ned Hill Track and over soil Hill main track.
Home via Taylor Lane and Bradshaw Lane.
A dull, mild-ish , calm sort of day with Ogden Water like a mill pond,
Masses of shoreline looked good for a migrant Wader but, a lot of searching failed to find me one.
Just the usual Gulls mostly Black Headed and Lesser Black-backed.
I did eyeball an unusual plumaged Gull that is probably a 1cy Common Gull?
Soil Hill was kind for a change with 3 Raven 2 Skylark, 2 Stonechat and 2 Snipe seen,
Taylor Lane was alive with Meadow Pipits in the fields, I think a conservative estimate of the number would be C50.
Raptors were about later on in the walk with Buzzards and Kestrels seen,
Birds:
c70 Meadow Pipit (c50 in Taylor Lane Fields).
53 Canada Geese.
4 Grey Partridge flushed along Bradshaw Fields.
Little Owl.
2 Wheatear (1 Bradshaw Fields top - distant, 1 ploughed field Taylor Lane).
1 Swallow.
2 Stock Dove.
4 Wren, 3 Pheasant, 3 Cormorant.
Black Headed Gull, Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Chiffchaff (singing), 2 Chaffinch, 3 Goldfinch, Blackbird.
5 or so Goldcrest, in the dark Ogden canopy were difficult to check for YBW.
3 Great Spotted Woodpecker (1 seen 2 heard).
4 Buzzard.
2 Skylark.
2 Snipe.
2 Stonechat.
3 Kestrel (at least).
Robin. Jackdaw, Carrion Crow.
Pub Quiz:
At birth babies have no what?
A. Kneecaps.
B. Elbows.
C. Eyebrows.
D, Nails.
Answer below.
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