A typical Queensbury February day when going back through the years all the worst snow falls and gales always landed in February. With most roads impassable and the main roads very iffy I had to finally admit defeat and miss a days birding. The weather was so bad that Lynda could,nt even get out on a shopping spree, now that is serious, and to make it worse her mobile hairdresser could nt make it , disaster or what !.
With the strong E>6-7 blowing across Foxhill Park it piled the snow at one end leaving plenty areas of grass showing which accumulated 32 Common gulls and several Rooks probing the hard ground. Hopefully the worst is now over and we can start to get back to normal although it will be some time before Fly Flatts is accessible.
Meanwhile, here are some snaps around Queensbury which I took on my way to work this morning .
Poor road conditions
Foxhill
New Park Road
Chapel Lane top
Chapel Lane bottom
Chapel Street
Chapel St into Halifax Road.
Bradford/Halifax Road
High St
Bus battling through
Down High St to the lights
Black Dyke Mill
Brighouse / Denholme Rd
Through the lights to Mill Lane, Brighouse Rd
Colditz Castle. Leave all hope behind all ye who
enter here.
Note temp in the garage , minus 3. Ignore date, calendar thinks its a
leap year.
Out to Brighouse/ Denholme Rd
A drifted car park.
Sales are a bit steady.
Main Rd to Denholme
Main Rd to Brighouse
Blizzard
Blizzard conditions, Foxhill Park
Top pitch to Fleet Kennels
Spring is just around the corner.
BS
