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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Misty Leeshaw, Foggy Fly Flatts

                                Gulls , Lapwings, Oystercatchers
                     Canada numbers building

                           Oyks on the shoreline
                        and in the fields
         Good numbers of Common gulls

Upper Marsh  0715 hrs
78 Lapwing
53 Fieldfare
100 + Starling
Still no Goldies

Leeshaw  0730 hrs
Misty then clearing but grey with slight snow showers
8 Oystercatchers
1 Curlew
76 Canadas
1 Cormorant
21 Lapwing
c50 Common Gulls
+ usual sp.
Nyger seed down for 1st time.

Fly Flatts 0900 hrs
An horrendous drive up to Fly Flatts from Oxenhope on a sheet ice and snow covered road only to find, yes you guessed it, Thick Fog on the tops.
A check around the fields lower down by Hunter Hill with just small gulls and corvids present.

0930 hrs Back home for a pot of hot coffee
BS