Soil Hill Sunday and Monday Morning

A real gale still blowing this morning but there was a reasonable amount going on. Curlew and lapwings in display flight /calls . 2 Oystercatcher and 1 Jack Snipe flushed from the lower hill side , its flooded and deep mud throughout.A flock of 110 Fieldfare and 200 Starlings were feeding in the lower fields and still no Redwings.?? Gulls drifted slowly into the gale with 10 Herrings , 2 BH Gulls and a stonking adult Great black backed Gull . The odd Skylark and 1 Meadow Pipit were flushed from cover but the wind was keeping most things down . Blackbird and 2 pairs of Mallard look to be settling down to nest. 3 Pied Wagtail , 2 Canadas , 1 BH gulls on Raggalds flood.... Monday the 15th... The first displaying Meadow Pipits today with parashute display seen by 5 different individuals , also the first deffinate move of Meadow Pipits with small groups heading north ...A cracking Juv female Peregrine and a male Sparrowhawk displaying below Ned Hill track. Jay the first of the year , Red legged PArtridge , Reed Bunting , singing Skylarks and the lower fields full of displaying lapwing , Curlew and Oystercatchers........1 Mistle Thrush and no Fieldfare today...Barn Owl and a distant LEO..