Finally had to submit to the fog.

After over a week of ducking and diving to dodge around the fog it finally bet me today with a complete blank.
A full day of dense fog up here in the gods with visibility down to a few yards but an after lunch trip to Bradford found it clear lower down so at 1500 hrs I headed down to Mixenden reservoir expecting it to be at least birdable if not clear, wrong. The fog was just as bad over the water as well as heavy rain so that was it, beaten by the weather but at least January is out of the way now so we can look forward to lighter nights and mornings ,if the fog ever goes, and a bonus with the Ogden car park now open until 1700 hrs instead of 1600 hrs.
Is anyone going for Gordon Denisons 100 birds in 100 days ? Local birds that is.

Meanwhile here,s pick of the bunch birds from February over the last 3 years :-

                Nice local find, Barn Owl.

           Pink Footed geese over Fly Flatts from Soil Hill

                                                    Ogden Goldeneye

                                         Ogden Barnacle goose

                    Pinkies over garage at Queensbury

                                          Pinkies over Ogden

        Ogden skies full of  homeward bound Pinkies, click on it

         Good shorelines at Leeshaw

    Tree Sparrows, long hedge, Northowram, finder AC

                  Plenty Bullfinches at Ogden

                                 along with Nuthatches 2015,  poor in 2016

                                    Last light Soil Hill Woodcock

   Black Headed gulls getting summer hoods

                        24 Whoopers on Mixenden

 You can,t keep owt from these two. J and DJS.
BS