A real miserable day throughout ,weather wise, with constant heavy horizontal drizzle on a SW>4 inc SW>5 with dark skies and low scud clouds moving through at 10 degrees.
Nothing to wet the taste buds at Leeshaw but plenty gulls to scope through with a good count of mixed gulls. The Greylag flock was up to 212 including 2 white and 4 variegated whites among them.
A group of 17 Redwing came through fast and low but otherwise quiet in the conditions.
Mid afternoon and a trip to Cullingworth fields to find only around 30 gulls present so on to Staples Brow where a mass of gulls were present in a field above the old Sugden landfill site.
The gulls were 3 fields away out of site so it was a very wet walk along the public footpath through the muddy fields until I got the gulls in sight. Unfortunately as I got in position the farmer appeared leading 2 horses which moved the gulls on again.
Another wet walk on a bridleway failed to find a position to see the gulls so I aborted that idea and headed back to Cullingworth fields where fortunately several gulls had returned so at least I had something to look at, though again no Meds etc.
Good to bump into KM at the fields who took over where I left off.
BS