Castle Carr rd zilch

    Garden was busy this morning with Goldfinch, Dunnock,
    Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Blue & Great Tit,
    Jackdaw, Magpie, Crow and pigeon, amazing what a bit
    of sunshine does for them.

    I then went up to Castle Carr Rd where it was freezing
    and nothing much about at all, 12ish Golden Plover in
    a field but scarpered as soon as I got there and that was
    it apart from the scenery.

 

 

Must be Mad

   I went for a venture up Ringby lane in the afternoon,
   cold windy and the weather couldn't make its mind up
   what to do , also not much to see so my hopes of
   Snow Bunting were dashed, 3 Meadow Pipits,
   4 Stock Dove, lots of crows and a poss Raven.
   Next stop was Soil Hill and same again not a lot
   to see poss Sparrowhawk or Peregrine flew past

   at a distance, 3 Roe Deer were seen on my way to
   Soil Hill and a Little John was seen lol, not seen him
   for ages

   We both decided we must be mad out birding in this
    weather.

 

Long Eared Owl - Halifax

 Took a trip out Thursday evening to various places
 looking for some Barn Owls and had no joy, but I
 did come across a beauty after a heads up from DS.
 A Long Eared Owl posing like a Prima Donna on a
 fence post, she also flew just in front of me half an
 hour later, I was well chuffed and it made the venture
 out well worthwhile, a few skylark were seen and a
 largish Blackbird with white chest flew 50 yards in
 front of me, all I could think of was Ring Ouzel but
 it was so dark it could of been anything.

 Garden was busy with Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Goldfinch
 and Greenfinch, Dunnocks and Robins and lots of gulls
 over back field.