Quiet Quarry

A quiet late-afternoon trip to Bestwood Quarry after another volunteer session, produced a few notable birds. The entrance was very quiet, except for a female Green Woodpecker looking rather exposed on a silver birch. A Common Whitethroat was seen briefly at the hillside bend, and around the corner small numbers of Great Tit and Long-tailed Tit were moving through the trees. A Jay was nicely lit in the afternoon sun, as it flew between the trees, and a group of ten or so House Martin were over the eastern side, and began to mob a female Sparrowhawk out of the sky. Walking toward the sand bank, flushed the Sparrowhawk up from the ground and I got good views as it passed reasonably low over my head. That was about it - quiet, but pleasant.