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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Saturday, December 21, 2013

Soil Hill Snow Bunting

                                     At last, Snow Bunting arrive.

                                            1 solitary Fieldfare

                Hazy sun going down behind the stone circle.

                                                            Top of the hill

One and a half hours trekking the top of Soil Hill in a howling WSW>6  eventually paid off with a single Snow Bunting seen briefly before it flitted over the north slope landing down near the bend.
All was quiet up there with just several Crows and 1 annoying Fieldfare that constantly moved around me all the time I was up there, landing some distance away before moving to another position.
It was because of this that the Snow Bunt was picked out as I did a final circuit after a photo during which time I found it.
It was on the track below the mounds when I saw it but I was already too close and although I froze and got a snap it flew up the track and over the ridge dropping down half way down near the bend out of sight.
With little light left I came away to let it settle for the night , hopefully it will attract some mates down before moving on.
9 Mallard were on the NK pond and 23 Mallard on Raggalds Flood.
BS