A slow start at Fly Flatts with light mist and drizzle lifting to leave a low cloud base on a light SW>3 at a mild 7 degrees. Clearer skies by 0900 hrs with patches of blue.
An active morning with nothing extreme but enough to keep the interest going. A small group of 14 Meadow Pipits were present but not sure if these are over-wintering birds or just brought down by the fog. Also in the compound were 3 Stonechat, 1 Wren and a single Reed Bunting
Nothing on the water other than 27 Mallard which fly in each morning from their roost down in Dean Head. Just 3 separate gulls over, with a Common, a Black Headed and a Herring, all >SW, the Common being unusual at this site.
Otherwise, the 2 local Raven flew over Fill Belly Flat closely followed by a Peregrine which flew towards Cold Edge Dams.
Several reports of Waxwing on RBA so check out those berry trees. There are several well packed Rowens around but the 2 hot spot Rowans at Lane Head, Brighouse are fruitless.
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