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Friday, 12 May 2023

Soil Hill To Mixenden

What a glorious winters day despite the cold NE’ly blow 😏. Quite surprising then to see 5 Swallows at Persecution Rd bottom. 
Soil Hill top was foggy but the bottom of the N slope was free thus enabling good views of, well nothing really 😒.
Several singing Skylark & 6 Meadow Pipit. 1 Reed Bunting, 2 Whitethroat 3 WW. Couple Moorhen 1 Kestrel.

Ogden provided frightening levels of boredom. A few WW & a Chiffchaff.
Carrs Beck did better. 1 each Whitethroat Reed Bunting & Song Thrush couple WW & Meadow Pipit. 2 LBBG over > N.

Imagine how I felt when a Mixenden man asked me if a “Sparrowhawk” he had photographed from his mobile phone from a distance of about 6 yards was just that. The bird was clearly visible, perched on a post near Ogden. It was a Peregrine Falcon 😵‍💫.

Mixenden Res was like an aquatic funeral parlour - 2 WW 1 Chiffchaff.
Elsewhere a Barn Owl.