Saturday, 6 March 2021

Soil Hill




 This is what Soil Hill looked like for most of the week until this morning when it was clear but no wind at all..

Skylark ...20 (17 + 3 ) nnw ,

Reed Bunting 1 west

Curlew x 6 west 

Goldfinch x 8 west

Cormorant x  1 sw

Herring gull x 16 east

BH Gull  x 4 (full hoods) s/w

Common Gull x 22 sw 

Present

Red legged partridge , Stock Dove , Lapwing (30+) , Little Owl , Oystercatcher (2 first for me on site)

Curlew 4 , Moorhen (4) , Magpie . House Sparrow , Kestrel , Canada Goose...just as i was starting enjoy the morning the news broke of Black - necked Grebe at Ringstone.......


5 Goosander over to Thornton Moor reservoir at dusk,,07.03.2021

3 comments:

David Sutcliffe said...

It's been quite a day and Nick's happy too.

Daniel Branch said...

Brilliant news with the Oystercatchers, hopefully they will try to breed again. Last year I think the chicks lasted two days before presumably a fox ate them, so they can't do much worse.

AndyC said...

Yes the bottom fields are very busy now with at least 12 dispalying Lapwing , 2 Oystercatcher and a Curlew was even doing the bubbling call yesterday morning...There are a lot of Carrion Crows about...!!! Still frozen in the morning at the moment...