With fog, heavy drizzle and a howling SW>5 up on the tops first light I headed down to the southern tip of my area, Elland Gravel Pits. The weather down there was mild and dry but very dark, a real none photography morning deteriorating with rain and drizzle by the time I left at 1030 hrs.
I managed to get straight onto the Siskin/ Redpoll flock in Alders along the canal side with a flock of around 30, these being mainly Siskin but too dark to go through the Redpoll for Mealys. A Buzzard was over the ski lake as well as a Sparrowhawk whilst a GBB gull headed >NE. No Dipper today but 2 Little Grebe still on the river.
30 + Siskin/ Redpoll flock, 75% Siskin
sev Bullfinch
2f 1m Goosander
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Buzzard
1 GBB gull >NE
sev small gulls
2 Cormorant
2 Little Grebe
+ usual sp.
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