Late afternoon and the low cloud and mist was still over the tops so another visit to Leeshaw reservoir which was below the cloud base but very dark and drizzly.
Bird wise it was the same as yesterday with several BH gulls and only 2 LBBs and 1 Herring with just mallards and Greylags on the water.
A Dipper down by the beck was a bonus having not seen one in this area for the last 2 years when breeding took place. Otherwise it was Redwings, Fieldfares and Mistle Thrushes in the fields along with some big flocks of Starling.
Back to straight forward birding tomorrow with a disappointing vis mig season behind me. The vis mig records have been poor due to excessive days of fog with most of the mega moving days having to be abandoned making it impossible to get a true picture of bird movement, one of the reasons, I suspect, that so many birders have dropped out of vis migging this year.
Sounds like a week of low pressure ahead with rain and fog forecast but hopefully they could be wrong, which wont be the first time.
I,m hoping for some clear skies and photo graphical birds as I,ve invested in a Sigma 1.4 converter which will get my 600mm lens out to 840mm plus the camera having a 1.6 crop factor I will be taking at 1344 mm but since I bought it I,ve had no weather or birds to put it to the test.
To finish on a bright note, before you all knock my link off your computer due to too much doom and gloom, heres a few pics of vig migging in the mid 90s at Oxenhopes renown Windy Corner where the weather is as bad as Fly Flatts.
Memories are made from times like these.
HC brought the biscuits and I provided the extremely weak coffee,
named by HC as one grain coffee.
Below HC and MD.
Johns umbrella idea did,nt last long, it was last
seen heading east over the Aire valley.
looking like I,m short of a good meal.
and HC
BS