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Horrific conditions ,camera wise, at Ogden early morn with very dark light and mist becoming thick fog by 0900 hrs. A very light E >3 at minus 2 degrees. Still about 50% frozen so enough water to invite wildfowl in. The camera was working near the limit at speed 1250, aperture 6.3 and ISO 16,000.
A record count of 34 Teal were all out on the water, right in the middle, as usual, before splitting up and spreading out around the banking. The most Teal I have had before on Ogden was a count of 28 going back some years.
A single female Goosander was present along with 5 Canadas and around 50 small gulls, the gulls being perched on the ice.
A walk around the perimeter of the water found very little in the frozen trees with just a few Goldcrests and Tits plus 3 Bullfinch ,again in the car park trees. By 0900 hrs the fog had rolled in blanking off all visibility.
A good chance of wildfowl now with most waters being frozen over so birds moving round looking for unfrozen stretches of water.
A call late afternoon at last light ,1606 hrs, reporting a ' massive skein of Pinkies >NW over Shelf Moor. A watch from the garden did,nt get any sight of sound but the cloud was very low so the geese will have passed to the north of me. Thanks once again from my, ever alert, Shelf Moor watch point, Peter Turner.
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