A pleasant morning at Leeshaw which was below the fog line with full light cloud cover on a E>2 at a mild 5 degrees. Visibility was good.
Another duplicate blog which corresponds with the time of the year when the winter wildfowl and gull season is drawing to a close and the early spring arrivals now settled in their breeding areas. Birding now is just a matter of being patient , keeping watching and waiting for the next arrivals with the peak being due late April and throughout May.
The target species for me at present is waders, Ring Ouzel, Scoters, moving raptors, especially Osprey, and hirundines, although Wheatear have yet to arrive at Fly Flatts, and the way the morning forecast is going they,ll probably be on their way back before I get up there.
This morning at Leeshaw was the usual mass of birds but nothing unusual. Several Herring and LBB gulls were present but all sticking to the far NW corner where a large Trout had been pulled out of the water and it was a competition between crows, gulls, Cormorants and 2 Heron, as to who got the best feed.
A dog walk over Foxhill mid p.m. produced a Buzzard overhead west to east and a text from firstly NK and then NS reporting more Whoopers on Ogden
Rain promised for tomorrow with a strong south easterly.
BS