A strong SW>5 blew at Leeshaw this morning with very dark skies making very hard work of birding with everything thrown into silhouette though the temperature was up from yesterday at 9 degrees.
A good count of gulls on and around the water but very active in the strong wind moving around from field to field then back on the water.
Part of the goose flock arrived in from the direction of Upper Marsh and landed on the water before moving off to a nearby field with still no sign of the Pinks and no Wigeon present today.
Odd to see one of the local Dippers fly low across the length of the water whilst a single Teal dropped in and disappeared into the conduit.
Back up onto the summit of Ringby Top late afternoon with the wind turned and decreased from this morning to a S>4 with cloud but a bright strip of sunlit sky on the west horizon.
Much quieter than yesterday with very few gulls, 90% of these being Common along with a flock of 32 Lapwing in the corvid field often flying around but resettling.
Plenty Meadow Pipits flushed as I walked through the long grass in the Snow Bunting/Shorelark field but no specials today.
Back down at the bottom of the track 14 Goldfinch were in a tree nibbling the buds as unfortunately the feeders were empty.
Leeshaw
273 Greylag
81 Canada
49 Herring
26 LBB
c 800 Small gulls
1 Teal
2 Cormorant
6 Stock Dove
1 Dipper
Ringby Top
10 Mipit
1 Stonechat
1 Pied Wagtail
32 Lapwing
1 Herring gull
c 100 Small gull, 90% Common
14 Goldfinch near feeders + Chaffinch and House Sparrows.
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