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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Soil Hill in a blizzard

                             Silhouetted Skylark singing overhead

                                          Lapwings on the summit

                                                            One of a pair

Soil Hill  1430-1600hrs Cold NNE>5 Sunshine with heavy snow and hail showers.

Skywatching from Soil Hill was fruitless today with raptorless skies possibly due to the cold wind.
Just the usual suspects were present along with 2 Curlew and 11 Lapwing.
House Martins were moving through the coll along with Swallows keeping low >N over Ogden plantation.
5 House Martin .....................>N
4 Swallow.............................>N
6 Linnet
c40 Meadow Pipit
5 Skylark
3 LBB gulls flew to TMR where there was c 40 on the water.
11 Lapwing
2 Curlew
BS