1500 hrs and Ogden had dark skies and a strong SW>5 with the clouds getting darker and eventually bringing rain.
The water looked empty now that the Goosanders have moved on and an absence of gulls apart from 1 Common gull which landed briefly on the water before moving off again. Otherwise it was down to 2 Canadas, 1m Tufted and the usual Mallards.
Passerine alley failed to provide me with a March Phylloscopus, thats the problem up here with woodland birds, we,re the last to get them and the first to loose them.
Plenty singing Gt Tits, Robins and Wrens through the alley with a few Blue Tits but the Long Tailed Tits seemed to have gone straight through.
Bird of the day, Gt Spotted Woodpecker, was briefly at the back of the picnic area by the info centre
before it flew deep into the plantation.
By now the rain was coming down in stair rods so head for home,
BS