Chav city

This year I've been mostly going around dawn and it's been great, peace and quiet and birds but yesterday I visited around midday
Quad bikes and really vicious looking dog, I have a dog but still if you can only walk it in the middle of nowhere then it shouldn't  exist
So headed back to the van
So around the depot

Wren 1
Carrion crow 2
Kestrel 1

Learning

No sign of anything just a few pipits going sw. By the time I got to the pump house I was feeling deflated, after some coffee I headed back the mist was starting to set in,the tops where covered and for 15 minutes the birds came
56 lapwing
Bh gull 65
Herring gull 6
Gbb gull 1
Skylark 2

Yesterday's reed buntings where still present and made a move I watched as they all moved to the head of the valley fed on thistles before flying off over the moor amazing
Don't think of reed bunts migrating

Hard work

Took 40 minutes to get here!!
Before I'd parked up 2 jays went sw plus 1 redwing
From then it was bitty ....nothing along the track apart from 4 goldfinch heard a few reed buntings.
The res had 3 mallard all male, pump house tree had 2 wren. That was it walked back and decieded to do the m62 pool grey wag and 58 pink footed geese heading to Lancashire
Highlight was 27+ reed buntings in the bracken valley and more were dropping in as the mist came down the hills