pm visit 1700-1830 hrs ,Slight NE>4 . Sunny but perfect visibility 360 deg.
Went up on the hill looking for Whitethroat and Ring Ouzel and maybe even a Swift and came away with
0 out of 3.The hill was very lively with Linnets, Mipits and Skylarks everywhere whilst a good count of Wheatears were in the Trig Point field. A Reed Bunting was in the broom on the west track which is unusual and Swallows were moving over >N in good numbers.
LBB gulls were steadily flowing through all west and this is what caused me to get on the move of Osprey.
The first one was from the west track whilst trying to get a photo of the LBBs coming over and through the camera I got on a raptor below the gulls and just snapped before it disappeared behind the hill. I never relocated the bird and dismissed it until I got home and put the photo on the computer, looks good for Osprey to me.
The second sighting was as I was coming away I took a final scan round from the summit and again started to watch 4 LBBs heading towards the wind farm. All of a sudden they dipped down and started to mob a bird before carrying on west. At first I thought 1 gull had broken away but then saw it was an Osprey now low below the skyline just beyond the Giants Tooth at Ogden. It continued on low across the moor and over the SW corner wall of TMR keeping low over the water and skimming over the north wall towards Leeshaw reservoir. Unfortunately Id looked earlier to see if DCBs car was at TMR which it wasnt, he would have got a cracking photo of that.
Osprey 1 maybe two. >N 1730 and 1820hrs
7 Wheatear
5 Skylark
37 LBB gulls >W
12 Linnet
48 Swallow >N
2 Curlew
1 Reed Bunting, male
3 Lapwing
Mipits
Lots of Peacock butterflies
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