A poor day throughout up on the tops with a morning of dense fog and heavy drizzle remaining near dark until 0900 hrs. Early afternoon was misty with horizontal drizzle on a moderate W>5 at 9 degrees.
Having missed the mornings outing, apart from a very wet Foxhill dog walk, I decided to combine the afternoon dog walk with a check of Ogden seeing as I was going to get wet anyway.
As I,ve said before, Ogden always quietens off after mid morning, apart from gulls when the TMR pre roost gulls stop off on the water. It was a bit too early for any amount of gulls to appear with just a few Herring along with a small count of Black Headed and Common.
I was surprised to get anything in the Alders this afternoon but a small flock of Goldfinch were present along with just 3 Siskin with no sign of Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Redpoll or the Tit flock.
Fly Flatts seems to have been in the morning fog forever now and a good chance of being the same tomorrow with a moderate westerly and light rain. Counting the days to February and the start of the returning waders.
BS