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Friday, October 14, 2016

Triple Dip Day.

         As good as it got, Jay

Yet another day of sun and blue skies in the morning whilst I,m working then drizzle and low cloud by lunch time.
With a call from HC early morn reporting the Black Redstart still present at Oxenhope, decent weather a.m. and me with a free afternoon my plan was to go to Oxenhope to get the Black Red and a few photos then on to Fly Flatts and pick up a second Black Red getting me 2 in the day.
                                                         You,d think I,d have learnt not to make birding plans by now as by lunch time the black clouds were moving in and a hint of drizzle was in the air.
I arrived at Sentry Hill at 1315 hrs getting about 30 minutes of dryish weather but no sign of the bird.
After one and a half hour searching and scanning still no sign and by now the wind was blowing, the rain was coming down and the cloud lowering cutting down visibility.
Good to meet 2 B.O.G. members up there searching the area, one being Gordon from Skipton who I used to meet at Barden watch point every Sunday morning some 20 years ago.
                                                         Looking across, Fly Flatts was in the fog so I decided to drop down to Ogden to try save the day but as I neared Ogden the sky brightened and the fog seemed to be lifting off the hills so it was continue on to Fly Flatts. That was until a text from DJS saying
conditions poor and no bird so after a quick phone conversation with him it was a  turn about and back to Ogden.
Amazingly , as I arrived at Ogden so did the rain so it was a quick check of the water and passerine alley them home with a third dip under my belt.
Ironically as I got home a text from DJS saying he had re located the Fly Flatts Black Redstart, oh well, thats birding.
Ogden
3 Jay
13 Chaffinch
18 Goldfinch
+ usual sp.
BS