1500 hrs Ogden . Cool E>4 with 100 % cloud cover and a steady thaw starting. 20 % of the water frozen .
Much disturbance today with the annual Christmas tree ritual of the quad bike and trailer flying around the track unloading disused trees .
The water held the usual 100 or so small gulls with no large gulls present, several preening whilst stood on the ice. A single Canada goose was on the water, possibly the Fly Flatts bird, along with the usual Mallards.
One, possibly 2, Kingfishers were down in the sluice gate area with 1 flying down stream and another appearing almost immediately by the water tanks making it near impossible to be the same bird.
Good to get Long Tailed Tits by the feeders after a long absence with 3 showing flitting in and out of the Rhododendrons whilst 5 Dunnocks were clearing the floor below the table.
Two Kestrels were up hovering over Ned Hill with 4 Mistle Thrush on the wires.
What I thought was building into a large Magpie roost in Bradshaw with around 50 birds is now found to be small time after DJSs Magpie roost of 407 at Shroggs road, that must be some sight.
BS