1630hrs, SW>5 with drizzle and dark skies.
The best thing about this trip was I preserved the camera battery with not using it.
A poor do all round in the windy damp conditions and a thorough search top to bottom of the hill failed to expose a Wheatear.
A f Kestrel was creating havoc skimming the ground and putting up the Skylarks and Mipits but otherwise quiet.
Soil Hill
7 Linnet
20+ Meadow Pipit
6 Skylark
1f Kestrel
4 Woodpigeons
5 Lapwing
+ usual corvids
Ned Hill
2 Pied Wagtail
Few BH gulls >S
1 distant Little Owl
Raggalds Flood
1 Lapwing
It can only get better!!
BS
WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING. BRIAN SUMNER. I am based at Queensbury and bird a patch within a 10 mile range of home incorporating 16 stretches of water, several plantations, a belt of woodland, stretches of river and canal and good areas of moorland. I specialize in upland birds, reservoir and sky watching. My local patch is Fly Flatts reservoir. Any reports can be sent by text or call to 07771 705024 or see profile for e mail address. All images on this blog are copyright.(2025).