Well, the fog had gone but a low cloud base with torrential rain showers clearing by 0915 hrs to leave broken cloud and a touch of sun ,on a SSW>3 inc 4 at 10 degrees.
The rain was so heavy as I arrived I thought of packing in but remembered that it was a morning such as this, on the 1/7/2019, when I got 3 Avocet >SW to the south of me which turned up at a Manchester reservoir the morning after.
Glad I stuck it out as the rain stopped and birds started showing with a package of 5 raptors with
Buzzard, Peregrine, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, and finally Merlin over Balkram Edge on the way home.
A scattering of Mipits were on the move, which probably attracted the raptors, along with 2 Swallows >S, 9 LBB gull >NE and 12 Jackdaw high and >NW. A single cronking Raven was over the quarry.
In the compound, 7 Stonechat appeared, after the rain, as well as 4 Reed Bunting and a few blogging Mipits.
BS