With sightings of Ring Ouzel across the Calderdale area this week, I was hopeful that Soil Hill might get to join the party at some point. And so it transpired today, with three individuals seen on the Hill.
As I was walking up
Taylor Lane early morning, my scans of the fields picked up two bright white
gorgets glowing in the sunrise, from two male Ring Ouzels feeding together in
one of the frosted fields. I could not find them again on my walk back, but could
easily still be present in one of the other fields which are more difficult to
view from the road.
I completed my
circuit and was walking back up the north slope when I heard the tacking call
of another Ring Ouzel, and was delighted to spot a female perched up in the North
Slope Tree-Line. Having already checked this area, the bird had presumably just
dropped in. She was quite mobile, moving around the various bushes at the
bottom of the North Slope.
In addition, there
was a Fieldfare on Ned Hill Track, a Jack Snipe was flushed from a wet area on
the summit, and at least nine Willow Warblers were present today.
In total managed 39 species today, the full list here; https://ebird.org/checklist/S225470144
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