Thick fog up here in the gods till early afternoon then sunshine and mild till pm followed by torrential rain.
Nothing to see in the fog so went for some more Tawny Owl pellets at lunchtime for AC to analyse and found the owls in a good position but impossible to get decent shots in the dull light and thick fog and only the small camera with me. Annoyingly 15 minutes after I got back to work the fog cleared and the sun came out.
At 1400hrs I walked out into the car park to fetch a car in and saw 3 gulls heading over low and >W but on a second look the front bird was a Buzzard being mobbed by the 2 Common gulls. A dash back into the office for the camera but the 3 had gone out of sight over the house tops by the time I got back out.
Being such a good afternoon and signs of movement I rushed down my tea, threw the dogs in the car and headed for Ogden, bad idea.
I could see the grey clouds heading over the moor and on arrival the sky became black as night and the heavens opened with torrential rain so after counting 7 Canadas, 1m Goldeneye and a few Long Tailed Tits it was head for home where , of course, the weather brightened up again.
Bring back the cold and easterlies, anything but the dreaded fog.
BS