Clee Hill. 10 April, 2014

Clee Hill is always worth a visit this time of the year for its speciality upland birds - wheatear, singing and displaying meadow pipit, peregrine, stonechat and ring ouzel. Ring ouzels are only passage migrants through there on their way to breeding grounds further north and probably west into Wales.  They  had been reported there from a couple of days ago, but with much searching I drew a blank.  I did, though, connect with all the other birds mentioned. There must have been at least twenty wheatears, male and female, near the car park and derelict buildings.  They proved to be too difficult to get any reasonable photos of, so I settled to photographing the old mine working buildings.

Derelict Mine Workings

Some of them look more like WW2 "pill boxes" rather than mine working buildings.

The photo below shows the Titterstone Incline, which was the railway to and from the mine when it was working.  Oddly enough, this is the place that is favoured by the ring ouzels when they are there!

Titterstone Incline

Later on I went to the Kerry Ridgeway and Lower-short Ditch (photo)