Another day of near gale force SW>6 with some rain showers.
A dinner time tour of the local Queensbury north fields found them quieter than yesterday when all the Lapwings seemed to group together in the stronger winds.
Pit Lane today held 198 Lapwing and c100 Starling, both counts being well down on yesterday.
Raggalds Flood , which is just not playing the game this winter, held 1 pr Mallard and 4 Common gulls with 5 Meadow Pipits in the adjoining sheep field.
Meadow Pipits were also present in the Lapwing field down the Bonnet with 8 present showing that they could slowly be returning to the area.
In the autumn Meadow Pipits leave the area in massive flocks, being one of the main spectacles of autumn visible migration, but when they return in the spring they arrive almost unseen by following the rivers inland suddenly being reported back on their moorland habitat.
Old Guy Rd held around 50 BH gulls in the fields whilst 2 first winter Pied Wagtails were on the cricket pitch. A cock Pheasant was unusual in the manure pile field along with around 40 mixed corvids.
Only just showing dark now as I walk home from work at 1715 hrs and daylight walking down in a morning at 0745 hrs, that means I can get a few extra minutes sky watching in.
BS