A glorious day with blue skies and little breeze, so much so that it tempted me to another dash to the Dailies during my lunch break. The deciding factor was bumping into NK in the coop car park and him saying it looked like a Pinkies sky.
The fields had a lot of activity from common birds with a good number of Chaffinch replacing yesterdays tit flock and 6 Grey Partridge scurrying across the lower fields. There was an amazing clear view to the east with several Common gulls soaring very high on the thermals but no sign of geese or swans.
As I got to the top of the hill on my way back I took one final scan of the skies, a good excuse to get my breath back, and saw a Buzzard well to the north of me and heading >SW as if to go down the Calder valley but very high. It almost had me believing it was an early Honey Buzzard as from the position I saw it the neck looked long with a long slim tail but getting it on the computer now you can see its a common, will have to start taking my bins with me!
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