With heavy rain through yesterday continuing overnight and turning torrential this morning it was,nt the best time to go birding but with 4 days off work time is precious and the dogs needed walking anyway.
The drive to Ogden was horrendous with several areas of flooding on the roads so a few diversions were necessary. I like to see these clever drivers who plough through the deep water at speed not knowing the cold water on the hot catalystic convertor can smash it or worse still get water in the ECU, both very expensive but good for the garage.
Ogden was grey with the rain piling down making scanning through wet and steamed up bins difficult but did manage to pick out a female Goldeneye at the north end of the water diving, probably the Mixie bird.
The Kingfisher made a brief appearance whilst the Dipper was nearby.
Someone that had tried to walk around the water said the reservoir had breached the west side path.
Raggalds flood was well and truly flooded but held 1 pr Mallard, 17 Lapwing and several small gulls.
Just got a text from daughter Belinda who lives on the hillside at Kebroyd saying part of Sowerby Bridge is under water.
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