Thick fog to start but soon cleared to leave 60% cloud on a cool W>3 at 10 degrees.
A delayed start with a car down the ditch at Fly Flatts and an ambulance blocking the entrance gate to the sailing club. Luckily the driver was only walking wounded otherwise they would have had to disconnect him from the life support machine for me to get past. As I got to the water a massive bank of fog settled over the water but very soon cleared.
A flood of Mipits headed >S when the fog bank lifted all to the west of me following the western ridge along with Reed Bunting, Alba Wagtail and Linnet. A small group of 6 Snipe headed >SW down the Calder valley whilst a Peregrine was also heading >SW, very high over the Flat Moor.
Only birds present were LBB gulls, Stonechats ,Mipits and Ravens.
Last night I alerted BV about Richards Common Scoters on Ponden reservoir so he shot up there just in time before they were flushed by a canoeist. He got some flight shots with a total count of 65.
Back to the dreaded light easterly for morning with light rain, and though it gives visibility as good, this is Fly Flatts we,'re talking about?
VIS MIG
139 Mipits.......................>S
7 Reed Bunting...............>S
12 Linnet........................>S
6 Snipe...........................>SW
1 Peregrine....................>SW
7 Alba Wagtails.............>SW
PRESENT
4 Stonechat
5 LBB gull
sev Mipits
2 Raven
+ usual sp.
BS