10:00 - 14:45
It was a dry sunny day for a change today - pretty chilly out of the sun early on but Ogden Water was warm enough.
I had a long birding outing today, that included a walk to the bottom of Soil Hill's north slope, hoping for a migrant but not seeing one.
Later on a walk back from the Paper shop on School Lane, Bradshaw a Raven passed overhead calling, flying towards Oats Royd conifers.
Birds:-
Bradshaw - Soil Hill - Ned Hill Road.
3 Pheasant, Greenfinch, c20 Woodpigeon.
Magpie, Crow, Robin, Wren, Blackbird.
3 Curlew, 14 Meadow Pipit, 6 Skylark.
2 Heron (NK Pond), 2 Buzzard, 1 Lapwing.
1 Stock Dove, 2 Herring Gull.
Ned Hill - Ogden:-
4 Chaffinch, 2 Curlew, Pied Wagtail. Bullfinch.
Pr. Tufted Duck, Robin, Blackbird, Long Tailed Tit.
c15 Gulls on Ogden Water at One point included 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring, Common and Black-headed Gull.
Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Mistle Thrush, Blue Tit, Great Tit.
6 Treecreeper, 2 Buzzard, Pheasant.Wren.
(Nothing special see along Back Lane!).
Syke Lane - Bradshaw:-
2 Stock Dove, c50 Jackdaw, Long Tailed Tit.
Blackbird, Pheasant.
3 Curlew, 2 Meadow Pipit, Little Owl.
Greenfinch and a few others.
School Lane Shop to Home:
Raven, Song Thrush, Starling.
Blackbird singing it's head off from my garden - in the dark this evening.
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