An amazing morning after yesterdays deluge with wall to wall sunshine and clear blue skies remaining dead calm until 0915 hrs when a slight WSW>3 got up bringing fog over the moor briefly.
Good to meet up with DF where we watched a very dark Buzzard sp. drifting low over the moor towards us before dropping down into a valley never to be seen again. A second Buzzard was sat on a fence post before disappearing towards Oxenhope. Plenty Pinkies moving but none viewed from Fly Flatts.
1m Stonechat
2 Buzzard
1 SEO
1 Reed Bunting
2 Raven
11 Mallard
SOIL HILL 1400 hrs to 1515 hrs
Just over 1 hour late afternoon on a pleasant Soil Hill in the good company of Daniel Branch.
Things looked quiet but with a bit of patience and scanning a half decent list was compiled.
Fieldfares were the star of the show with a total of c42 moving around the hill with a flock of 24 above the hill and 18 ish low down ground hopping .
Again several reports of Pinkies on the move but no sightings from the hill despite 360 deg scanning.
2 Meadow Pipits
1 Skylark
c42 Fieldfare
3 Goldfinch
31 Lapwing >S
+ usual sp.
Good luck to Daniel on a very hard and final year at uni, I,m sure he,ll be a big success.
BS