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Sunday, February 11, 2018

Ogden in a snow storm.

                                          8 Continental looking Robins
                               together by the feeding area.


                                   Kingfisher braving the blizzard.




               Black Headeds, full winter head,front bird
                                       near summer head, rear bird.

0800 hrs and heavy snow showers with periods of bright clear skies in between on an icy NW 5.
                                                                 With the roads in a poor condition I settled for Ogden not wanting to end up marooned too far from home although the snow eased as the morning went on.
                                                                     The reservoir held the usual Mallards and around 50 small gulls, 25 % of which were Commons. One first winter dropped in briefly before moving off >NE.
I spent 2 hours yesterday bathing the 3 dogs so not wanting to get them caked up again I stuck to the promenade area which gave me time to watch the sluice gate where the female Kingfisher arrived in the middle of a snow storm but it stuck it out moving to different positions and occasionally diving into the tanks . As the snow stopped the sun shone behind the bird so it was lost as it moved to the southern end of the area.
                                      The info centre feeding area had 8 Robins together all showing strong characteristics of continental birds with lighter orange breasts , and extensive white bellys. They also showed plain brown tail feathers as opposed to British Robins having more rufous streaked tails.
Despite the weather a pleasing couple of hour at Ogden.
BS