Bradshaw - Soil Hill - Ogden Water - Soil Hill - Bradshaw.

Not a great day to be my arm pit!

Very hot on my birding outing this afternoon (12:30 - 16:30) up and over Soil Hill (10 yds down north slope only).

Across to Ogden Water, back up Ned Hill Road, over Soil Hill ( again!) to home.

The Sedge Warb. escaped both my hearing and eyesight!

The best I could find was a Garden Warbler singing its heart out at the top of the north slope and a Grasshopper Warbler reeling at the SW end above the diagonal path to Ned Hill Track.

Ogden was poor given the large amount of shore with just a Oystercatcher worth a mention.

Birds:-

Soil Hill etc.

Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler.

3 Stock Dove, Pied Wagtail , 6 Linnet.

7 Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark, Blackbird.

2 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, Carrion Crow.

6 Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler.

4 Moorhen.

Kestrel. 

3 Pheasant, Chaffinch.

2  BIG GULLS!

Curlew, 5 Starling, 3 Swallow.

Ogden:-

c65 Large Gulls.

2 Black Headed Gull.

Mallard with 9 Ducklings.

Oystercatcher.

Goldfinch, Goldcrest.

Coal Tit, Long Tailed Tit.

Willow Warbler, 2 Tufted Duck.

Wren, Goldcrest, Goldfinch.

Chiffchaff.

A couple of confusing Gulls looked very large - the photos below are poor.

Soil Hill etc.

Ogden Gulls.

Garden Warbler.

A: This Gull looked very large?

B:This Gull looked very large?