A good excuse this morning to catch up to jobs at home other than dog walking then a late afternoon visit to Ogden keeping below the cloud base. With conditions still grim and very dark it was just a matter of checking the water for newcomers which was no easy task looking straight into the wind and rain coming across the water.
Several big gulls were present on route to the Oxenhope roost with at least 5 Herring gull, 11 Lesser Black Backed along with Commons and Black Headeds.
With nothing suspicious among the Mallards and no strange ducks out on the water it was head for home in hopes of better conditions tomorrow.
With the weather always black and white at the moment I thought its a shame to waste colour on photos so I,ve just thrown a few together reminding you what prints were like when I first started photography using the old 35mm Fuji films.
You could buy colour film in those early days but they were expensive and even more so to get developed. I always used to have colour slides which worked out dearer still, especially after you,d waited a week for them returning only to find half of them were to throw away. We dont know we,re born now with auto focus digital.
which I still have, my first birding bible.
when it was a birding habitat.
A prize every time.
Hopefully by tomorrow the world will have gone back to glorious technicolour.
BS