A bright cold start to the morning at Leeshaw with icy roads and a freezing W>4. The sun tried to break through but clouds moved over from the west by mid morning with the wind increasing.
Nothing on the water other than Mallards, small gulls and Cormorants but the skies were alive with moving and resident birds.
Woodpigeons were piling over >NW along with 15 Cormorant whilst massive flocks of Fieldfare, Redwing and Starlings moved around the fields.
Geese are still in short supply and no sign of the long staying Curlew.
Meant to come back Fly Flatts way but the road up to Paul Clough was sheet ice and impassable.
Raggalds Flood froze over and deserted.
18 Greylag
3 Canada
4 Pied Wagtail
13 Mallard
300+ Starling
150+ Fieldfare
16 Redwing
400+ Woodpigeon.............................>NW
15 Cormorant...................................>NW
5 Cormorant blogging
+ usual sp.
BS