A very dark and grey morning at Fly Flatts but reasonable visibility under the medium low cloud base.
A very light SE>2 at 2 degrees with frost but no freezing.
A good start to the morning when a Buzzard launched itself over the fence and flew right across the front of the car at windscreen height giving crippling views but by the time I,d stopped and jumped out with the camera it had drifted low over the Flat Moor towards Slade.
From then it all went downhill with another typical December morn at Fly Flatts with just 27 Mallard on the water whilst 3 Red Grouse were noisy on the moor and 4 Raven overhead.
A low count of gulls today with just 5 1st winter Herring over from the SW heading > NE whilst 2 Common gull headed >SE.
Just 2 reports of Pinks today with 100 + over Norwood Green but no direction given seen by DM and text via NK. and c 80 >SW over Luddenden Foot at 12.40, KM.
A gull visit to Mixenden mid p.m. was aborted with a boat on the water so on to Thornton to check the local fields. Very few gulls with just Black Headed and Commons but several big gulls over heading >W to the TMR cull roost.
The gull fields in general are very quiet now that muck spreading has come to an end.
Hang on in there, its got to improve shortly, and at least we,re on the right side of the shortest day now.
BS