Local Last Few Days

Not much birding  happening with me at moment.

Spent some time in the garden watching the sky and I've been up the local fields most evenings.

Friday lunchtime I had a walk up the Raggalds "Flood" a small puddle next to the wall next to the road . 

The main water is non-existent.

I've been doing  some reading in the garden.

I don't want to get too up to date with my reading though - Reading an Old McBain Book.

Birds:

A few Swifts in ones > South , very very high.

Larry Little Owl was present on a couple of occasions.

10 or so Rook.

A Few Swallows over a mown field.

A Buzzard was high, distant over Oats Royd and Buzzard calls are heard most days further to my north east.

A solitary Black Headed Gull was in the horse field - mobbed by a Crow when it flew up.

A few Stock Doves, lots of Woodpigeons and the usual Lesser Black-backed Gulls over.

Some Geese calls that at first were very quiet, got louder as they approached - c30 Canada Geese.

A Green Woodpecker called once.

Pheasant

Raggalds Walk:

The Raggalds held 2 Pied Wagtail an adult and a juv. 

A small mixed flock of Meadow Pipit, Linnet and Goldfinch flitting about.

The Bonnet had a Little Owl on a wall north of Taylor Lane.

Ringstone Oops

Ringstone 26th July 2025 posting.

Logged this as a Juv. Wheatear when in fact it is a Juv. Stonechat or is it???

A very windy day today.. wet with it early on.

Some blah blah blah (That sort of day).

I dropped the car off at Queensbury M.O.T garage this morning. Had an hour to kill before I could catch the bus home so I went to a cafe. 

I had to pay £2.50 on the  bus!!! to early to use my old farts card.

When I added  my cafe bill to my bus fare , I could have got a taxi for the same dosh.

Late afternoon and a call from Pete telling me the car was ready left me one  minute to get to the bus stop or wait another hour for the next bus.

One minute is ( for a man in my superb physical condition ) ages really, and I caught the bus with at least 20 seconds to spare - result.

Early evening and I had a walk along the cow field.

This wind blew my brown flat cap off and I tried on 6 before I found mine... the old ones are the best!

ok enough Blah.

Birds:-

Still very windy.

Seen from the garden mid-afternoon were 5 Swift (in ones) that were flying into the wind struggling. Not often you see Swift struggling is it?

Local Fields:-

2 Little Owl (sheltering in different spots).

5 Mistle Thrush.

Small flock of Goldfinch.

6 or so Stock Dove.

7 Rook.

1 Swallow.

Woodpigeon and Lesser Black-backed Gull.

A few 'awkward' gulls in flight.

Out of the Wind!

Not a lot of birding

Not much birding these last couple of days and tomorrow the car goes into the garage and with the poor weather forecast I'll probably curl up and read The Beano.

This evening I had a short stroll up the local fields where a very skittish, small bird flew back and forth with a call I could not place.

It refused to land and eventually went towards Soil Hill.

I got a poor photo and took a video where the call is nearly inaudible.

It's probably a Greenfinch with laryngitis!

The highlight of yesterday, during a short garden sky watch was 3 Greylag Geese > East.

Birds:-

Stroll.

Wren, 7 Mistle Thrush, 4 Rook, Pheasant.

6 Stock Dove, Willow Warbler.

Lesser Black-backed Gull

and My Little Owl - which had taken to roosting in a tree.

Garden:

3 Greylag Geese.

Lesser Black-backed Gull.

A few pretty Butterflies.

My weeding of the path in the front of the house yesterday was met with some aggression from a Blackbird that has nested in our beech hedge - It's feeding young

My Mystery Bird.

Local Fileds

Not much birding time today just a short walk late evening along the local fields.

It was very dark and unusually calm for Bradshaw.

In excess of 20 Rabbits flitting about.

Birds:

Halifax.

Peregrine Falcon - see in  Halifax as we were shopping this morning.

Local:

2 Juv. Whitethroat.

Pheasant.

Willow Warbler.

Wren.

Canada Geese in the fields and Bradshaw Pond.

2 Mistle Thrush.

Swallow.