One of those, time to get decorating weeks.

Wild and wet was the story in Queensbury today with it peaking at lunchtime where the wind was up to gale force SW>8 with winds in excess of 40 mph making it a difficult dog walk at dinner time being hard to keep upright. Its ok for the dogs under the shelter of the wall but I was getting the full drenching.
By this evenings dog walk the wind had calmed down but the rain still lashed down.
Needless to say, nothing seen on the bird scene today other than the resident stuff around the bird feeders.
An e mail from blog watcher Delia yesterday reporting a Goldcrest in her Queensbury garden led us on to mention the Queensbury white crow. Today she sent me a pic of the Mixenden bird taken in 2008, does anyone have any records of this bird earlier than that. I have records going back over 20 years of the Queensbury crow.
Apparently there are several white crows around the Gargrave area where Delia used to live. Thanks for the info Delia.

             Mixenden white crow taken at Mount Zion 2008
                                          Photo courtesy Delia Fawcett.
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