Plenty Mipits
A late afternoon trip to the hill on a mission to photograph Ring Ouzel knowing just where to find them from yesterday. As I got near the sheltered area where I found them yesterday I got down in the grass before slowly sticking my head over the mound, camera at the ready. Nothing there ! yesterday the wind was from the west so the area was well sheltered but todays north wind was blowing straight through the culvert.
Thirty minutes later and a male Ring Ouzel flushed from the top of the west summit and headed back down the north slope soon followed by the female, both disappearing into the trees. So as not to spook them I checked the rest of the hill ending up by the red cabin and still Wheatear less although a good passage of Herring gulls was unexpected and pleasing. Otherwise a Heron was being mobbed by corvids and House Martins and Swallows were moving >N overhead. As I started the long climb back up the north slope, there was the male Ring Ouzel right at the top before moving west towards the Shay muck pile.
BS