Snowbound at Queensbury, match abandoned,

 

                                            A snowy Queensbury

                                                       Fleet Lane

                                                      Foxhill Park

                                        Snowballs stuck to the dogs legs.

Roads too bad this morning through Queensbury and too bad to get to the reservoirs then some work to do p.m. at the daughters in Pye Nest where there was no sign of snow at all.

Re NKs blog yesterday ' Twite Remembered' it made me look back to the Twite at Fly Flatts,

Leeshaw and Soil Hill which were regular with daily sightings up to 2013 and just passage birds since then despite me keeping regular supplies of Nyjer seed down at Fly Flatts in the hopes of a return one day.

                                         Fly Flatts Twite

                                    Counts of 20+ were a daily sighting

                                                   Soil Hill Twite

                       Usually in twos and threes around this time

                               Last good number was 10 on Soil Hill 30/10/2012, KM.

                                                   Last resident birds at Fly Flatts 2/4/2013

               Latest sighting of 3 Twite at Fly Flatts   27/10/2019, passage birds.

BS