Sunday, 8 February 2026

Bradshaw - Soil Hill - Ogden - Bradshaw

10:00 - 14:10.

A bright morning for a change and I had a walk over Soil Hill summit and around Ogden Water coming home via the Bradshaw Farms and fields.
Some Pinkies skeins reported but I seemed to be in the Ogden cafe when the local ones went through!

Ogden car park was rammed again - nice to be on foot at times like these.

I lost a black woolen glove (probably on Ned Hill Track or Ned Hill Road) - £1.99 from Boyes in Brighouse - Now I'll have to save up to buy another pair.
Luckily I've got a cupboard full of odd gloves and one of them will do for now.

There were plenty of bird calls in the brightness this morning but Ogden was poor again - probably affected by the number of folk here.

Birds:-

Bradshaw, Soil Hill & Ned Hill Track:

Greenfinch, Starling, House Sparrow.
6 Skylark, 21 Magpie. Woodpigeon.
Both Pied and Grey Wagtail on the lower Taylor Lane midden.
Canada Goose. 3 Mistle Thrush, Robin.
Chaffinch. 2 Herring Gulls over (probably lots more over!).
Common Gull.
Blue Tit, Great Tit, Blackbird.
3 Mallard.
c10 Meadow Pipit.
Crow. Dunnock.
c50 Jackdaw. Feral Pigeon.
2 Pheasant. Kestrel.
Little Owl called from west of Ned Hill Track.
2 Little Owl usual garden area Bradshaw.

Ogden:

Goldfinch, 3 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull. c40 Small Gulls.
Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, Buzzard.
2 Raven. Long Tailed Tit, Crow,
Mallard. Blackbird, Robin. Dunnock.
Goldcrest.
Nuthatch. 
c60 Gulls in Syke Lane fields.


Wobbly Video of distant Gulls in
Syke Lane Fields.





















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