Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Lee Mount/Swales Moor/Pepper Hill, Claremount

Lee Mount - 1 Swift over >SE late morning and a Sparrowhawk

Swales Moor - an hour on the top along Ringby Lane this afternoon
1 Wheatear
1 Skylark
1 Meadow Pipit
1 Green Woodpecker
and a young Fox being mobbed by the local Carrion Crows

Pepper Hill (above Claremount)
1 Spotted Flycatcher in the scrub gully just 100m on the south side of Black Boy Farm along Hag Lane
c100 Goldfinch feeding on thistles
A few blogging Swallows
c40 Starlings on the top
Dead Hedgehog - I only seem to find dead ones nowadays and they are infrequent

3 comments:

Bradshaw Rambler said...

Nice one with Spotted Fly.
John

Dave Brotherton said...

Agree with John a nice find, close to home for me too, I'll have to see if can find it
won't be easy with my eyesight though.

Brian Sumner . said...

You may make a Sept Swift yet Dave.