A real wet and windy morning with very heavy rain showers on a moderate SW>4 at 10 degrees.
Far too wet and windy for Fly Flatts with a very low cloud base so headed for Leeshaw reservoir. That was until I got to the road closed for repairs sign near Oxenhope so turned around and ended up at Ogden.
Conditions here were very poor with dark low clouds and heavy showers coming across from the west though sheltered from the worst of the wind.
Very few gulls this morning with only a single Herring, 8 LBBs and around 40 small gulls with nothing on the water other than the usual Mallards.
Chaffinch numbers are building well with around 50 birds split into two groups all ground feeding but still no Brambling present ,but only a matter of time. Several Reed Buntings were in with the Chaffinch as well as Blue, Great,Coal and Long Tailed Tit plus plenty Blackbird, Fieldfare and Redwing moving around the tree tops.
Buzzard, Sparrowhawk and Kestrel were overhead but very little sky movement today with just a handful of Woodpigs.
BS