After cooking an Italian Sunday lunch for the family and my parents, we all took a short walk around the Pit Tip Top. Considering all the noise we were making, it didn't turn out too badly bird-wise. There were plenty of Skylark in song over the Pit Tip, some of which were flushed by us. Two Jay were in the trees at the sparse end of the main Plantation area, and a single Cormorant flew over to the north west.
Walking back into the woods by the Rise Park entrance produced a female Green Woodpecker high up in one of the larger trees along Front Line. As we neared, it flew off towards the western edge of the main conservation area. Reaching the clearing that allowed us to see over Big Wood, showed a distant pair of Common Buzzard (patch year tick) soaring around the mast near Bestwood Quarry - I should really check that area out early in the morning. To finish off, a single Goldcrest was heard and then briefly seen flying from the yew trees by the entrance.
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