Bradshaw - Soil Hill (Thur)

8:25 - 10:30.

With a decent  weather forecast for this morning and a poor weather forecast for this afternoon I enjoyed an earlier birding outing than usual, leaving home at 8:25 a.m.

This is early for me but late for serious birders.

I suppose I could set off at "silly o'clock" many mornings as I often wake up just after 5 a.m. -  try to drop off again - but fail  - getting out of bed at 7:15 a.m though is plenty early enough for me.

The unseasonable cold weather continues with quite a cold wind on the hill and frequrent heavy showers this afternoon, some with hail.

On Soil Hill , I ventured down the north slope to the bottom tree line and I did get a reward when 2 Swift flew past, very low > W.

Other than that the same birds as previous were on offer with Whitethroat calling from a few locations but difficult to see.

A bonus was a singing Reed Bunting that refused to show itself remaining ensconced in a tree, out of the wind.

I came back down on the same route as I had gone up via Taylor Lane

Birds:-

Greenfinch. 3 Swallow. 3 Pheasant.

C10 Linnet. Chaffinch. Red Legged Partridge (called).

5 Skylark. 2 Robin. 6 Willow Warbler.

6 Whitethroat. 

2 Canada Geese. 2 Mallard. Moorhen.

2 Dunnock. 3 Wren. 2 Lapwing.

Kestrel.

2 SWIFT.

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