Heavy overnight snow stopped the job this morning with the roads unfit to travel on until Queensbury Council got the donkey and cart harnessed up and got round with some grit.
Mid afternoon and Sainsburys shopping done it was a trip to Ringby Top after deciding that looking for white gulls in white fields was not a good idea,
Bright and pleasant conditions on the top with a cold NW>4 and blue skies with sunshine at 2 degrees.
Lots of corvids today, mainly Jackdaws along with 2 very noisy Raven over the Lapwing field but no Lapwing today.
A small group of Meadow Pipits were around the Snow Bunt field not seeming to have a problem with the snow whilst a Wren and Blackbird were also present there.
Very few gulls with just a handful of small gulls and 4 Herring gulls which headed through >SW but otherwise the skies were quiet with no signs of Pinkies on the move.
A single male Stonechat showed itself briefly by the quarry but was flushed with a passing tractor.
Ringby Top
1 Wren
1 m Stonechat
15 Mipits
8 Herring gulls
few Small gulls
2 Raven
1 Blackbird
1 Fox
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