As good as it got. A check of the RNLI webcams produced
3m 3f Eider duck in Seahouses harbour.
As the norm, dense fog and very heavy drizzle early morn aborting yet another birding session.
With more fog tomorrow, followed by gale force winds over the weekend, the pleasure of birding is rapidly fading. The weather conditions, overflowing reservoirs and the lack of birds is making birding more of a toil than a pleasure and it will take some special birds this spring to get the enthusiasm back.
At least a skip through the lifeboat web cams showed me that someone is getting birds with Eider ducks at Seahouses plus Turnstones, Purple Sandpipers, Dunlin and Sanderling at several other sites.
The Fly Flatts sailing season starts on Sunday so I,m going to have to get up there at some point to de-poo the jetty now that the Canadas are back. The fog usually clears by midday but, apart from I've other things to do in the afternoon, I find reservoir birding a no go from late morning on as anything special has been and gone early morning unless conditions are good enough to hold them longer.
BS