Hows this for a vantage point, a hill on a hill.
Looking south over Saddleworth Moor
Looking north to Ingleborough
Soil Hill. pm visit.
A mound of earth has been dropped on Soil Hill 18ft above ground level which makes an amazing 360 degree watch point, as long as its not windy, the only snag being that when a plane is coming in or out of Yeadon airport you have to duck. Problem was , as I was playing silly beggers here, a Buzzard was seen to come from the north, over the Oxenhope watchpoint and low through the Causeway Foot col to continue down the Calder Valley. DCB was talking to someone at the time and missed it, I was hill climbing and missed it but luckily BV was on the ball and possibly got a photo as it passed low over his head. This is one of the first migrating Buzzard this time.
Otherwise things were quiet with a steady flow of Mipits and a number of gulls heading for Oxenhope.
Movers :-
26 Meadow Pipit....................>W
Other :-
3 Grey Partridge
19 Woodpigeons
3 Stock Dove
+ usual gulls and corvids.
No Wheatear, the next batch of Wheatear in Sept. should bring some Greenlands with them.
BS