I enjoyed a 'late' breakfast and a long chin-wag with Sue's best friend Geraldine in Wild's cafe at Cross Roads above Keighley this morning.
Geraldine kindly dropped me off at Back Lane Plantation on the way home so I could 'go-a-birding'.
I had actually had my porridge at 8:00 am, so the second "small" cooked breakfast at 10:30am (and a big bun) filled my calorie bucket list for the day.
A good nosey at the plantation revealed half a dozen or so calling Goldcrest and a Buzzard but little else.
Leaving the plantation a Red Legged Partridge called from the undergrowth and a tad later a second Red Legged Partridge scurried along the field edge into undergrowth - my 1st Red Legged Partridge this year.
Ogden was poor again with just a few Gulls with lots gone elsewhere to have babies,
Soil Hill Summit in the wind had a few Meadow Pipits flitting about.
I thought I'd struck gold along Taylor Lane with an unusual bird was way distant in a field corner.
I could not ID it in my bins and having only size one legs I had to climb onto the wall to get it in my huge zoom camera's view finder- where it morphed into a Fieldfare - which was 'ok' I guess.
It was good to swap insults with RH who I met loitering with intent at the end of Syke Lane.
His missus soon moved him along smartly though!
(Some) Birds:-
Goldcrest. 2 Buzzard.
2 Red Legged Partridge. 2 Mistle Thrush.
5 Meadow Pipit. Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Nuthatch. 1 Drake Tufted Duck.
5 Herring Gull. 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull. 1 Common Gull. 4 Black Headed Gull.
Kestrel. Greenfinch.
2 Fieldfare. Starling.
Disappearing Red Legged Partridge.
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