Fly Flatts, More Pinkies and first Redwings

 

                                                  Goldfinch both moving and blogging

                                                9 Stonechat present

                                                 as well as 5 Reed Buntings

                                       More Pink Footed Geese on the move

                                         Several skeins but mostly small

                                              Scope-able only, LH gull Yellow Legged Herring

An icy cold start to the morning with the first ground frost at 5 degrees on a NW>4 with a mix of cloud and sunshine.

                     Several small passerines blogging and moving but no sign of yesterdays Black Redstart but I,m sure they will be more. The first Redwings headed >W , probably arrived by the moderate north westerlies over the last couple of days, just a day earlier than my previous earliest record.

                  A single adult Yellow Legged Herring gull was on the far NW shore along with LBBs though they soon moved off >SW whilst the Tufted ducks have now moved on.

                 At just short of 0900 hrs the flood gates opened and skeins of Pink Footed geese piled through with 5 relatively small groups apart from 2 very distant skeins heading >W scopeing into the far distance over the Hebden Bridge/ Stoodley Pike area.

Vis Mig

473 Pinkies...............222.>SE      251..>W    51, 31,54, 68, 18 SE     168, 83 W

c150 Goldfinch............>S

8 Redwing..................>W

sev Mipits...................>S

22 Starling..................>NW

6 Alba Wagtail............>S

Present

c 100 Goldfinch

sev Mipits

1 YL Herring gull

14 LBB gull

9 Stonechat

5 Reed Bunting

4 Wren

+ usual sp.

BS