A very foggy wet start to the morning but dried up and cleared by 0800 hrs to leave 80% cloud with some blue sky and sunshine on a light WSW>3 at 12 degrees.
With the big Ringed Plover move still on, a flock of 74 at Foulridge Reservoir, Skipton, info M.C. , I had high hopes of the overnight fog bringing me some down but not to be. All these birds have to pass over this area at some point as they head south.
A little bit livelier than yesterdays visit with several Meadow Pipits and Swallows but no waders arrived as yet. A few Black Headed and LBB gulls headed >NE whilst a single Canada goose was on the water and a Raven was on the mast briefly before heading off towards Ovenden Moor.
OGDEN
Ogden p.m. faired a little better with 3 Common Sandpipers present , spotted earlier by NK, with around 40 LBB, 5 Herring,50 Black Headed and 12 Common gull. No Yellow Legged among the big gulls on the west bank and no Med gull among the small gulls on the east bank.
At least 8 Cormorant were present but all was quiet in the waterside tree. A Buzzard was calling from the NW plantation.
Another 2 weeks and I'll be watching for Pink Footed Geese over, my earliest sighting being 13th Sept.
A bright morning tomorrow with a light NW. See if the change of wind brings anything new in.
BS
2 zoomed in gull pics for gull under investigation. Ogden yesterday
