Happy Outing

  Another cracking day out at different places, Soil Hill,

  Belgrave Woods, Shibden Valley and Copley Woods,

  Plenty of wildlife seen and lots of different species of

  birds, was looking for Cuckoo heard but not seen.

  Green Woodpecker also in back field yakking.

  Copley Woods fantastic for tree creeping birds like 

  GSW, Nuthatch and Treecreeper.

  

Sparrowhawk Attack and a Little Gem

    Found a little gem of a place right on my doorstep and
    never realised how good a spot it is Belgrave Woods I've
    decided to call it, I saw a Crossbill last year here but still
    managed to ignore it, as Ive been out the last couple of
    days I decided to stay local this morning and I'm glad I did,
    Blue Tit, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Chiff Chaff, Jay,
    Pied Wagtail, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Wren, House Sparrow,
    Great Tit, Robin, Blackbird, Wood Pigeon were seen and a
    Green Woodpecker was heard, also Swallows & Swifts
    we're about.

    Garden I had Goldfinch, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Blue Tit,
    Dunnock, Pigeon, Blackbird just before a Sparrowhawk
    attack which nearly took my ear off, unbelievably fast and
    swooped in low before rising above the privets and into the
    feeders and nearby tree where it carried on the attack but
    couldn't tell if there were any victims.

 

Cracking Morning

 Couldn't sleep last night so thought I might as well
 get out and about and Im so glad I did, had a cracking
 morning, 3 out of 4 Owls were seen at a distance but
 great to watch, also seen were Curlew, Snipe, Wren,
 Meadow Pipits, Skylark, House Martin, Pheasant,
 Willow Warbler and poss Wood Warbler, Whitethroat,
 House Sparrow, Swallow, Song Thrush singing its head
 off, Linnet, Reed Bunting, Lapwing, Canada's, Blackbird,
 Starling, Goldfinch and a family of Roe Deer.