1500 hrs and just time to get the last 30 minutes daylight in, if you can call it daylight ,with black clouds, light showers and a strong SW>6 at 25 m.p.h.
A very blustery walk on the west bank to get some seed down and a check of my 3 feeding areas for Buntings and Larks which I always find the best time in blustery conditions and on the very edge of last light. Most of my Soil Hill Snow Buntings turned up at this sort of time just before darkness but that was back in the days when Soil Hill produced Snow Buntings annually, unfortunately those days are gone. At any rate, although the area had the smell of Snow Buntings none were present and neither were any other species with empty water, empty shoreline, whats left of it, and empty skies and I left at lights out without seeing a single bird of any description which must be some sort of record for me at Fly Flatts.
Never the less it was good to get up there after the recent batches of fog, and the lack of evening daylight has slowed down now with only 3 weeks to the shortest day. It also gave me chance to put my Canon 7d Mk2 through its pacers after getting it back, once again ,from the repairers. Im back on track now with the camera and lens so all I need now is some light and some birds.
BS