Surprisingly, this mornings expected dense fog stuck to the valleys with the Aire Valley completely blanked out under a blanket of fog with just a few patches in the Calder Valley. Fly Flatts was bright and clear with near full blue sky and sunshine on a light N>1 at 8 degrees.
Vig mig was very hard work with Mipits and Swallows moving very high up and hard to spot in the bright blue sky. Other than that ,just 4 LBBs, plus Snipe, Chaffinch and Skylark.
I picked out 3 ducks in the far distance so a dash to the west bank for some very distant shots before
they moved further still into the NE corner and out of sight before I got the scope on them. I put them as 3 Wigeon but checking the photos, naf as they are, the third duck looks smaller with a different posture, probably Teal but I,ll have to let that one go.
Otherwise just a good count of Mipits on the shoreline but other than that, a quiet session.
A light SSE for morning with sunshine and cloud so its just a matter of where the fog ends up.
VIS MIG
132 Mipit.....................>SE 18....NW
4 LBB.......................>NE
10 Swallow...............SW
2 Snipe.....................>W
1 Skylark..................>S
4 Chaffinch..............>W
PRESENT
c 50 Mipits
2 Wigeon
1 unidentified duck sp, probable Teal
+ usual sp
BS