I could see from home that Fly Flatts was in the fog but, working on the assumption that the decent W>3 would clear it, I headed up there. The fog was reasonably thick but my plan worked in reverse with the westerly bringing in more fog till visibility was down to 20 yards with light drizzle at 10 degrees, probably the worst fog I,ve been up there in. By the time I left the fog was even down in the valley and thick at Queensbury.
On the plus side, as I drove down the entrance track, a female Ring Ouzel came up from the grass and landed briefly on a fence post, probably the same bird as I had last week, but by the time I,d dropped the window and grabbed the camera it flew into the fog in the direction of the lagoon tree.
A check of the area and compound, as good as I could in the fog, failed to re-locate the bird and the only other bird I found was a single Mipit as well as the crow family. Unable to see out onto the water even though I was parked right on the edge of it.
By 0930 hrs it was obvious that there was no chance of it clearing so time to abandon ship.
A late afternoon dog walk up Foxhill got 6 Redwing over >SE whilst the sky was full of Starlings and BH gulls feeding very high up on either midges, flying ants or whatever was up there. By early evening, thick clouds were building around the horizon which are obviously tomorrow mornings fog.
BS