9:15 - 13:40
A very dull quite nippy sort of day - but dry.
The wind 'got up' as I was on Soil Hill summit making for a cold trudge along the top.
It was good to chat with Pat and Steve in the Ogden visitors 'cafe' and also Chris who was working there today.
A Swan-Gull was on Ogden Water when I arrived - just "Swan-Gull" was all.
A Buzzard was calling from far over the north side and what I thought was a second Buzzard was calling near to me.
The second Buzzard was actually a Jay that was in a tree next to me - a really excellent mimic.
Birds:-
2 Little Owl (1 Ward's Garden. 1 Syke Lane Area Wall).
1 Reed Bunting.
5 Linnet.
3 Chiffchaff.
3 Mistle Thrush.
2 Herring Gull.
5 Lesser Black-backed Gull.
2 Drake Tufted Duck.
3 Buzzard.
2 Drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker (1 East Ogden. 1 West Ogden).
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker "Test Drilling" a nest hole heard several times - seen but no photo.
1 Jay.
1 Raven.
4 Curlew.
Greenfinch.
1 Kestrel.
6 Skylark.
3 Meadow Pipit.
c30 Starling.
Rook.
"A good few" Fieldfare in the trees behind Rabbit Dell, Taylor Lane, chattering - just 4 visible.
Later 4 left the trees for the nearby fields, left loads chattering.
Woodpigeon.
Coal Tit.
Blue Tit.
Great Tit.
Robin.
Wren,
Blackbird.
Carrion Crow.
Magpie.
Jackdaw.
Feral Pigeon,
Mallard.
4 Pheasant.
6 Stock Dove.
1 Song Thrush.
Dunnock.
Pied Wagtail.
Goldfinch.
Chaffinch.
At least 6 Goldcrest Ogden Water.
1 Very Large Gull over Back Lane - Probably a Lesser BB Gull.
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