Soil Hill and Bradshaw

I was out with friends for most of the daylight hours today - went to Wildes cafe at Crossroads above Keighley for elevenses.

I had a cuppa tea and the biggest jacket potato I've ever seen with lots of Tikka curry filling.

Took some swallowing but I got there in the end -  we certainly know how to live in Bradshaw!

Mid-afternoon,  to work off some of the calories, I headed off up Bradshaw Lane to cross Soil Hill summit.

A very mirky outing with thin foggy stuff here and there.

No sign of the recent Black Redstart although I only checked the soil hill east side boundary wall before contouring around the top and going down to Ned Hill Track and home via the farms/fields.

Soil Hill was ..... well ... Soil Hill with 1 Crow and a Blackbird seen.

A few Gulls were in the distant Shay Fields.

There was a good number of Gulls in the Bradshaw fields a bit later.

A Buzzard was on a fence post as I left Ned Hill Road bottom along the track.

Nothing new really.

Birds:-

Blackbird, 1 Crow - Soil Hill.

36 Canada Geese.

2 Mistle Thrush.

4 Stock Dove.

Buzzard.

3 Pheasants.

2 Greenfinch.

2 Bullfinch.

Chaffinch.

Long Tailed Tits.

c100 Jackdaw.

c170 Small Gulls - Bradshaw Fields

I forgot to mention - at Whitelome yesterday - I was making a note on my blogger pad,  trying to spell Grey Plover and, don't ask me why, I put an F in the spelling.

I mentioned this to birder up there and he told me there's no F in Grey Plover - I had to agree with him - funny that.

I went for a pint to the Raggalds yesterday tea time - Redwing were calling from the darkness as I walked up the bonnet.