1500 hrs and still the nasty hot stuff lingering although the wind had changed around to SW >3.
The water was full of geese with a count of 124 Canadas plus 4 young ones along with 10 Greylag but no sign of the Pink Footed from this morning.
Unfortunately the Greylag with 7 goslings is now down to 6 probably after this mornings gull invasion.
Far too hot to walk the banking so set my stall up in the shade of the car and settled for a bit of scanning which just produced Snipe, Reed Buntings, Common Sands, etc with no continuation of the gull movement.
Lynda wanted Brighouse this afternoon which was 29 deg, lovely.! After a shopping spree she said lets have a walk by the canal at EGP which was a cross between Blackpool promenade on a wakes weekend and the M62 with a constant flow of nuggets on bikes, two of which I threatened to put in the canal as done by Gordon Denison many years ago when Elland was in its hay day.
HC and myself were once down there on a Sunday morning birding spree countless years ago when David Dimbleby turned up on a barge stopping at a lock and having a word with us.
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