A real horror of a day with near gale force winds and heavy horizontal rain and drizzle throughout.
Just a few wet and windy dog walks over Mountain and Foxhill with a check for Skylark and Meadow Pipit on the Old Guy Road cricket pitch, with just 2 Pied Wagtails and 4 Stock Dove found.
Raggalds Flood, on the way back from a Keighley shopping trip, held 8 Black Headed gulls, 5 Common gulls and 16 Lapwing along with around 50 Starling.
Gone are the days when we regularly got Ringed and Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, Oystercatcher and Snipe, as well as Wigeon, Teal and Shelduck on the Flood, although now it is usually dried up over the spring period. I've even had Kittiwake and Yellow Wagtail there.
Forecast looking about the same for tomorrow.
BS.