The extra hour of daylight was somewhat wasted this morning when I arrived at Leeshaw at 0700hrs to find heavy drizzle and a strong SW>5 with dark clouds overhead.
The reservoir was quiet other than a few gulls and Cormorants but as soon as the skies started to clear things livened up.
An early skein of geese came over >SE, very high up in the mist and this was followed about 1 hour later with 2 more smaller skeins >NE.
Starlings were moving well >NW and a couple of flocks of Fieldfare came over low and >SW so what looked as if it was going to be a washout turned out to be a decent watch which is usually the case.
Vis Mig
Pink Footed Goose..................58 >SE 42 >NE 18 > NE
c 150 Starling..........................>NW
c 100 Fieldfare.........................>SW
39 Lapwing..............................>E
4 Snipe......................................>W
3 Herring gull..........................>W
Present
3 Cormorant
28 BH gulls
5 LBB gulls
5 Mistle Thrush
+ usual sp.
BS