A mixed bag of weather at Leeshaw this morning with a good dry spell first light and then torrential rain for the next 30 minutes followed by blue sky and sunshine for the last part of the watch. A moderate SSW>5 was blowing at 4 degrees.
Nothing special to start the year off but a very lively morning with a good variety of species
with Fieldfare being the star of the show with a flock of 100 + heading >N very high over the moor.
Also several flocks of Jackdaw, Starling and Mistle Thrush all working the fields whilst the usual Mallard, Geese and a Cormorant were on the water but no Goosander , Wigeon or Teal present today.
Gulls were disappointing today with just 4 Herring and around 100 Black Headed and Commons with the usual gull fields on route to and from Oxenhope deserted.
A birder in Sainsburys car park, Halifax, this afternoon showed me a photo of 2 Waxwings he,d taken late morning at the junction of Queens Rd and Pellon Lane. The berry trees in Sainsburys are just about bare with no birds present during our shopping visit.
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