What started out looking like a big Woodpigeon day soon got stubbed out when I arrived at Fly Flatts early morn. As I set off from home Woodpigs were heading >S in big numbers showing well in the bright sky to the east but Fly Flatts was its usual hazy and drizzle with a very low cloud base. By 0930 hrs the fog rolled in and the rain came with nothing bird wise other than the usual geese etc.
Late afternoon and heavy drizzle on a moderate SW>4 looked good gull moving tackle so I headed to Leeshaw reservoir where I was,nt disappointed.
Not brilliant visibility with the banks of drizzle piling through with periods of heavy rain until half way through the watch when the sky cleared showing blue areas and some sunshine.
Gulls were lively with about 150 Black Headeds present along with several moving through.
Common gulls, Herring and LBB all came through >W with some stopping off briefly on the water.
During a particularly heavy bout of rain a Yellow Legged Herring gull flew straight over my head whilst about 15 minutes later a second michahellis landed on the water briefly before moving off >W. I,d high hopes of a Kittiwake or Tern but that will have to wait for another day.
Leeshaw reservoir.
5 Greylag
15 Canadas
15 Herring gull
2 Yellow Legged Herring gull
8 Lesser Black Backed
26 Common
c 200 Black Headed gull
+ usual sp.
BS