After one clear day it was back to dense fog and heavy drizzle with near gale force winds from early p.m. Leeshaw was below the fog but not a nice place to be with a moderate W>4 bringing continuous horizontal drizzle with mist clouds and as black as night. Certainly not a morning for the camera. Temp was 6 degrees making all the lenses steam up on scope, camera and bins.
Despite the weather there was plenty to see and search through though very difficult trying to keep the bins de-fogged. A good count of over 150 Greylags and over 200 Canadas which after a lot of scoping through I managed to pick out a single Pink Footed goose.
Plenty gulls with 32 Herring, 15 LBB and around 100 small gulls but very mobile around the fields and water.
Conditions were a little better down in the Sladen Valley at Lower Laithe with a good count of gulls both on the gantry and on the water but again nothing special.
Not looking good for morning with gale force westerlies and more rain, hopefully without the fog.
Before I started putting the blog on I had a check on the east coast lifeboat station live web cams for Whitby, Redcar, Filey and Withernsea to check for waders as the tide was coming in.
Redcar was amazing with a count of over 140 Oystercatchers, along with several Redshank, Ringed Plover and over 40 Turnstone in one small area. Glad someone is getting birds.
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