Mid afternoon at Ringby Top found it cloudy with good visibility apart from mist to the far west.
The wind was from the west with a W>4 inc W>5 at 4 degrees.
Much livelier up there today with the snow all but gone and the fields soft and muddy once more attracting the gulls and corvids down. Commons were in majority with very few Black Headeds and no big gulls on the deck but a good move of Herrings over >NE heading through the Causeway Foot Col along with 2 LBBs >SW.
A small group of Lapwings were at the far end of the sheep field along with a good count of Crow, Rook and Jackdaw.
The north fields to the west held 7 Meadow Pipits and a pair of Pied Wagtails whilst the track area produced a female Stonechat and a single Mistle Thrush.
Still no sign of Pinks on the move yet even though there are reports of several now starting to leave both the west and east coastal sites meaning the first skeins could have followed the coast up bypassing this area but theres still plenty time for some sightings yet although its starting to look bad on the Snow Bunting scene for yet another winter.
Ringby Top
c 100 Common gull
c 30 BH gull
51 Herring gull...............>NE
2 LBB gull.....................>SW
1f Stonechat
7 Mipit
2 Pied Wagtail
14 Lapwing
1 Mistle Thrush
+ usual sp.
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