Soil Hill Ogden Water Mixenden Res

A Very warm day I'm so glad I left the topcoat in the hovel. A pleasant surprise at the Perspiration Road corner of the hellish hill - 4 Fieldfare - my first in I don't remember how long. 

I got this Swallow in Coal Lane as I was exiting the hill. Also 1 Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit ditto WW, 4 Curlew. 2/3 Greenfinch.

Ogden Water: Raven overhead giving a Buzzard a reet tellin' off. 3 Chiffchaff  1 WW. 1 Herring Gull & 9 LBBG.

20 Curlew at Stod Fold and a Meadow Pipit.

The Mute Swan (DJS) at Mixenden Res was having a doze. A Chiffchaff was singing. 

Ogden Water To Mixenden

Another sunny day. Ogden: 4 Chiffchaff. Pr Teal the same birds from yesterday at Mixenden Res. Couple Herring Gull 6/7 LBBG.

The stretch from the promenade coughed up 2 Willow Warbler singing away. 1 each Reed Bunting & Skylark.

Nothing doing at Carrs Beck. Curlews around Stod Fold area. 2 singing Chiffchaff at Mixenden.

Cold Edge And Mixenden Res

A fine sunny morning with a light breeze from the SE. This is more like it 😀. Cold Edge: 4 Oystercatcher 5 Lapwing 5 Curlew. 

My first pr Stonechat in quite a while. Pr Linnet ditto Meadow Pipit. 4 Greylag & c25 Canadas. 1 Blackbird.

4 Curlew at Stod Fold with a Pied Wagtail in the vicinity. A surprise at Mixenden Res: a pr Teal were in with 4 Dullard 👍. The woods coughed up a drumming GSW a Green Woodpecker and a singing Chiffchaff.

A Swallow Lifts The Spirits

Ogden Water today was very drab with just a pr Herring Gull & a LBBG seen. The woods produced 5 Chiffchaff & a Song Thrush as well as the expected Tits.

I sat down on a promenade bench for a break and am so glad I did. A Barn Swallow flew across from E to W struggling in the headwind. This is my earliest ever record in the UK 😁.

21 Curlew were at the usual fields near Stod Fold. I saw 4 mebbe 5 Peacock Butterflies around Brookhouse.

I have noticed on the last 3 outings that in Queensbury and the areas I visit Greenfinch are being seen and heard more frequently than in the past few years.

Soil Hill And Ogden Area

Soilage tops only. Chaffinches Goldfinches couple Greenfinch. 3 Curlew 7/8 Meadow Pipit 4 Skylark couple LBBG. Pr Grey Partridge seen again 😊.

I got a txt from DJS about a Whooper Swan while on my way to Ogden Water. It was still present when I arrived.  Gotta admit from this distant photo the bird looks to be short necked with enough black on the bill to make me think of Bewick's as I processed it.

Also 2 f Goosander & a pr Tufted Duck. A Song Thrush and Chiffchaff observed and JL chatted with.

Got my first Dipper in quite some time in Hebble Brook at Stod Fold 👍.