Dense fog this morning so a shot at Ogden where it was very misty, being just below the cloud base, but visibility just across the water. A light E>2 at 6 degrees.
A busy morning with never having to leave the east bank and plenty to keep me occupied.
A scan of the water produced a single 1st winter male Wigeon along with 2 Teal. The Teal, as always, stuck to the middle of the water out in the mist but the Wigeon came closer to the shore, mingling with the Mallards, and kept flying a circuit of the water along with a group of Mallard.
A skein of contact calling Pink Footed Geese flew overhead >W but got through unseen up in the thick cloud. A Gt Spotted Woodpecker, along with a Nuthatch, was in the waterside trees in passerine alley whilst a second Nuthatch was on the feeders with the usual Tits etc.
Very few gulls on the water, which is usual for a morning visit here, with just 3 Common, 2 LBB and 8 Black Headed whilst a Kingfisher flew across the water and settled in Willows along the east bank.
By 0945 hrs the crowds were piling in as well as 2 bus loads of school kids so time to hot foot it back to Queensbury.
Waxwings are now arriving on the Shetlands so hopefully we,ll have a better winter with them than the last couple of years.
Sounds like plenty wind and rain from the east now for the rest of the week which may shuffle things around.
BS