Soil Hill alive with Tortoiseshells
Gulls a Common sight now
Unusual for us to see Common Gull in summer plumage
Soil Hill once again produced the goods this afternoon in the form of an adult male Black Redstart.
Id been skywatching and finished off with a full circuit of the summit and was near the mast when 4 Mipits erupted and started flying round as I was obviously near a nest site. One of the Mipits landed on the shale hill close to another bird which when I got my bins on it there was a cracking adult male Black Redstart , its white wing bar standing out. As I said a few choice words and grabbed my camera it flitted across onto the wire compound fence then dropped straight down below the mast inside the compound. Unfortunately after 30 mins searching we were unable to re locate the bird.
1 Black Redstart
3 Wheatear
19 LBB gulls ...........>N
7 BH gulls.................>N
2 Skylark, blogging
6 Meadow Pipit blogging
BS