and Nuthatches are so tempting.
1500 hrs and still no reasonable access to Fly Flatts plus lack of time so another visit to Ogden was in order knowing that DJS had covered Mixenden.
A showery day but the snow going well with just the ice to clear now still making most of the side roads treacherous.
I arrived at the promenade just the same time as a pounding sleet storm with horizontal sleet and rain blowing across the water on a WNW >5, lovely. A check of the water found around 50 small gulls ,75 % being Black Headed with just the one big gull, an adult Herring in amongst them. The sluice gate area just held 1 Grey Wagtail with around 30 Jackdaws in the trees by the Lodge house.
At least 4 Siskin were in the Alders on the west bank but no signs of the Redpolls and far too dark to attempt photos. Otherwise it was down to a few Robins, Wrens and Blackbirds whilst a Nuthatch was timidly using the feeders despite the rain.
Good to have a photographic chat with AT in the car park who had just done Mixenden and Ogden and threatened me not to find anything on the water when he had left which I didnt.
BS