By the lord Harry, the Calderdale telling bones have been quiet today!
A lovely crisp sunny morning and looking down over Halifax from the garden there was a line of white mist running through the valley.
A Goldcrest was seen in a nearby conifer as I sat in the garden.
The sun did its work and the mist lifted into low cloud as the morning progressed.
(Light 'till after 6 p.m. here this evening).
Sue needed some free range eggs so we decided to go the long way round to Pavement Lane.
Emma (from across the road) with her dog , caught up with us at Taylor Lane bottom and accompanied us to Ingham Lane, where we went ahead to Keighley Road and Pavement Lane.
This meeting was very fortuitious because I could practice being even more anti-social than usual, hanging back and gawping through me bins, while the ladies enjoyed some serious chin wagging.
The dog did some wagging ,of a different sort, too.
For such a great sunny day the birds were pretty scarce - especially Gull species.
This afternoon Sue headed off to pick Abi up from school so I wandered off up to Soil Hill and risked a trek to the bottom of the very brambley strewn north slope - but it was a waste of puff.
I had a mooch about on the hill before heading back down Taylor Lane but it was really dead... just some distant Lapwings in the Shay fields with 2 Teal on NK pond.
Birds:-
First Outing:
Little Owl Number 1. (Bonnet Field).
Curlew (Ogden Area).
2 Rooks (Taylor Lane).
1 Skylark singing (Soil Hill).
11 Common Gulls sunbathing (Illingworth Road).
An opportunist photo of a distant wall beyond The Moorlands Inn revealed Number 2 Little Owl.
Second Outing.
Buzzard.
Common Gull.
3 Stock Dove.
2 Teal.
2 Moorhen.
2 Canada Goose (Bradshaw Pond).
c25 Lapwings - distant Shay Fields.
Curlew Calling (Ogden Area).
Little Owl Number 3. (Taylor Lane).
Bye Bye February 2025.....
Little Owl 3.
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