Soil Hill

Prepare to Pounce you Knockers and Sceptics for here is a morsel. A thrush sized brown bird was flitting and flying in a nervous manner along the rough ground above the quarry on the NE side of the hill. It perched once giving a short view of the head. I saw it move thrice the longest view being no more than 10 seconds so a photo was out of the question.

The bird was roughly the same size of a female Blackbird but there the comparison ends. It had mottled plumage and showed two pale whitish wing panels when flying. My instincts told me it was an exceptionally early female Ring Ouzel and after scouring Internet images possibly a first winter bird.

3 Snipe, a distant flying Partridge species, 1 Dunnock ditto Pheasant. 1 Moorhen, several corvids and a couple of others best not divulged. A pr Greenfinch bottom Perspiration Rd and 15 Lapwing on Raggalds Flood.