here comes a second lot till the bins revealed Lapwings.
1500 hrs and the long muddy trek up onto Ringby Top to check out the sky movement situation on an overcast afternoon with slight snow flurries with a NE > 4.
As I was near the top of the track I picked up the bins to watch a Herring gull when there in the background was a skein of around 50 Pink Footed Geese at great distance to the North of Queensbury heading NW . As they disappeared behind the summit I dashed up to get them beyond Fly Flatts but they were by now in the low cloud over the west ridge.
A few minutes later , what I thought was another skein, turned out to be a flock of around 30 Lapwings, possibly the Raggalds Flood birds.
A check on the manure field just produced 2 Meadow Pipits and a single Skylark, the rest of the group being to the west of the field and out of sight behind the rise. Two Wrens were busy feeding by the side of the quarry whilst the ploughed field produced 27 Magpies plus the usual hundreds of corvids and small gulls.
Thirty minutes sky watching just picked out 9 Herring gulls and 2 Great Black Backed gulls >W, 4 Stock Doves and 11 Woodpigeons plus the usual small gulls.
The feeders at the bottom of Ringby were empty and the feeders by the house just held, Robins, Dunnocks, House Sparrows and Blackbirds whilst a Kestrel hovered over Swalesmoor.
BS