0800 hrs and still coming light as I arrived at Fly Flatts on what looked like a promising morning but that soon changed. The cloud base was half way up the wind turbines but good horizontal visibility on a calm S>3 and very still water.
Disappointing bird wise with nothing on the water and only Red Grouse and Carrion Crows present until Herring gulls started piling over in the unusual direction of
> E with a total count of 171. Some of the groups looked like geese approaching until they got within range. By 0930 hrs the wind had increased and veered >SE 5 bringing fog and drizzle and soon it was lights out , once again fog bound.
As I was parked up checking the Goldie field a text from my early warning station at Shelf, Peter Turner reporting Pink Footed Geese heading for Queensbury then 5 minutes later a text from JL with the geese over Ogden. A short wait and the contact calls were heard to the north of me as the geese passed over >NW but up in the fog. Thanks once again to, on the ball PT and to JL for the warnings.
BS