ignoring my own advice i headed back towards soil hill today. no sooner had i left the main road my fortunes changed as i spotted my first ever grey partridges not flying away as grey smudges. i could see 2 males and 5 females on a mound of earth. they were stunning to watch but eventually they went over the side of the mound and i spooked them going round it to continue watching.
as i reached the hill i ws releved to see no fog, but sadly there was also a similar lack of birds. on the calderdale side i saw nothing. not even a crow or blackbird. i headed down the bradford side unlike yesterday as this has not been churned upbut alas it was not to be. i found no birds on the pools or anywhere. in my distress i walked around the pools to find nothing until, half way round a small black bird flew down from the sky and perched on a reed. it was a reed bunting horay a bird on soil hill. however i saw nothing more and so i can now say
birds on soil hill:
reed bunting!
at ogden there were plenty of birds but nothing of any rarity. there was a largish flock of goldfinches feeding on the feeders in the wardens garden, plenty of black-headed gulls and mallards plus chaffinch, coal tit and great tit.
overall, besides the apauling conditions i would say it was a great walk
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