My morning exercise walk today took me to a triangle formed by railway lines between the KC Stadium and Hull Royal Infirmary. This is mostly grassland, with scrub around the edges, mostly of Giant Hogweed and brambles. and there is a small hill in the middle with sycamores and more scrub.
A mostly sunny day with a cool easterly breeze. A male Kestrel is hunting over the railway line.
There has been some recent planting of bushes or trees.
There are several Whitethroats singing.
A Lesser Whitethroat sings. Brambles and sycamores? yes! There seems to be a clear pattern.
I walk around the site using the several paths. This is a view of the SW corner.
This is my favourite view. Hull Royal Infirmary in the horizon.
A male Goldfinch.
I reach a corner with plenty of brambles and giant hogweed where the birds appear to be on edge. It could be me, but there is also a magpie about.
Alerted Blue tit and Greenfinch.
Male Linnet.
Female linnet with nest material. I did a double take, such a neat bunch of hairs (horse, maybe?) that it looked like a moustache.
male Greenfinch in dry flower stem of Giant Hogweed.
Magpie on the prowl.
After a very pleasant hour at the site, it's time to go back. Starlings are at their busiest. Their flight paths crisscrossing over roads carrying beakfuls of insects for their young, and back to feed in flocks on the verges and playing fields. A sparrow (below) joined them.
- Blackbird
- Blue Tit
- Bullfinch
- Carrion Crow
- Chaffinch
- Chiffchaff
- Collared Dove
- Dunnock
- Feral Pigeon
- Goldfinch
- Great Tit
- Greenfinch
- Greylag Goose
- Herring Gull
- House Sparrow
- Kestrel
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Linnet
- Long-tailed Tit
- Magpie
- Robin
- Song Thrush
- Starling
- Stock Dove
- Whitethroat
- Woodpigeon
- Wren
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