Pre-work walks are starting to get easier as it's light by 6am, and that gives me about two hours of birding before I haul myself into the city centre. This morning I focussed on the Pit Tip with a view to covering the valley near Ted Heath. I was hoping for some more early migrants, but - surprisingly - there wasn't much about.
Most notable on the Pit Tip were a single adult Lesser Black-backed Gull over to the north, at least four active Skylark, including two singing males, and my best ever views of Meadow Pipit. It was perched on a fence post, calling at the edge of the Pit Tip Top, then flew off to the north, and was joined by another over the cow field. A Green Woodpecker was calling regularly and frequently from the Pit Tip Plantation, probably trying to attract a mate.
A single Jay was screeching near Shopping Trolley Pond, and a male Great Spotted Woodpecker was drumming in the valley near Ted Heath. A Song Thrush was also singing in the valley and a single Coal Tit was feeding in a yew nearby, too.
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