A bright sunny morning with clear blue skies but short lived with the fog in the valleys soon rising up and stopping the job by 0930 hrs. Its getting more and more difficult up here on the tops with the snow and ice making more birding locations inaccessible and even Ogden was chaos this morning with the car park barrier closed because of ice leaving Ogden Lane a battleground with cars stuck on there with nowhere to go and unable to turn round on the icy road, and that was just at first light.
The water was 80% frozen over holding around 80 small gulls with a passage of several Herring gulls overhead in the usual direction on >NE.
A check on the Alders found them very white and frozen solid so other than a couple of Blue Tits nothing was present although a flock of around 20 Siskin made 2 quick attempts of landing but soon gave up and headed into the wood.
By this time the fog was creeping in fast and by the time I got back to the promenade it was lights out.
BS