nose band feathers at the bill base, (MC). 
Common gull
A very dank morning at Leeshaw with low cloud and heavy drizzle showers on a calm SW>2 at 10 degrees.
A low count of gulls this morning but a nice show of wildfowl with Greylags, Canadas, Wigeon. Teal and a rare winter visitor for this site when a drake Goldeneye dropped in during a particularly heavy shower of drizzle. I just managed a quick, distant shot before it disappeared to the hidden west end of the reservoir.
Starlings are still moving through >NW whilst 4 Meadow Pipits were present.
No improvement to the weather mid afternoon with drizzle and fog on the tops so I headed for Redcar Tarn. As I passed Cullingworth I thought " do I really want to sit in a long queue of traffic dropping down to Keighley," where the road is being resurfaced, so a quick diversion to Cullingworth fields.
On arrival the gulls in the big field were scattered about as yesterday and the gulls in the second field were at the far end and out of reach so back to plan A, Redcar Tarn.
The weather at the Tarn was dry and clear but very few big gulls around with muck spreading going on in a distant , out of view field, where a mass of gulls could be seen flying around .
A dozen Herrings were on the water along with a few LBBs plus the usual small gulls, all carefully checked for a Med.
Only a handful of small gulls across the road in the farm field and again nothing in the cemetery grounds, which for some reason they seem to have stopped using for now, the gulls that is.
The beauty of Redcar Tarn is there is always plenty to watch and check through plus midday today I took delivery of Big Bertha the third so it gave me chance to get used to using a big lens again. This is the 3rd 150-600mm lens I,ve got after trashing the first 2 along with 3 cameras, I must be more careful but my birding is usually done in a rugged environment in gales and heavy rain at Fly Flatts and bad things just seem to happen to them.
I,ve managed with a Canon 300mm for quite a while but it just doesnt get out far enough for reservoir work. See how long this one lasts!
Leeshaw
29 Greylay
23 Canada
1 Wigeon
1m Goosander
1 pr Teal
4 Mipits
c 100 gulls
+ usual sp.
BS