A variable afternoon of full sunlight to dark clouds revealed a kestrel sitting in a tree opposite the Visitor Centre, a number of small flocks of Goldfinch dotted about the cover crops in the arable fields, a Green Woodpecker on the Firehills and another on Brakey Bank, in the Quarry a Small Copper, Red Admiral and Ruddy Darter and a brace of Mallard in the gloom on Saxon Pond. Well worth the walk!