A howling W>7 gusting 8 with horizontal drizzle throughout at 12 degrees.
Far too windy for Fly Flatts this morning and a later text on the Sailing Club grapevine for members to get up to the boatyard with several boats blown over and moving around the compound.
Leeshaw was very windy, which was'nt much of an issue, but the heavy horizontal drizzle showers made it hard work. Birding this morning was just on the border of the very dedicated or the very insane, not sure which category I fit into but ideal conditions for something maritime coming through and if you don't go you don't know.
Having said that, nothing special did appear other than a good count of LBB and Black Headed gulls through all >W into the wind but very few stopped off.
The highlight of the morning was a record count of Canada geese with over 300 present along with around 50 Greylags. The geese were very flighty in the wind moving between the big field, the water and the shore.
Otherwise Lapwings, Mipits, Cormorant, Mallards and a single Kestrel skirting the shoreline.
Yesterdays Med gull, found by MP, is 3 years old and has spent its life in and around the Netherlands and this is the first sighting of it in the British Isles. The last sighting previous to this was Zeeland, Netherlands in April this year.
Wet and less windy tomorrow with a light south westerly.
BS