A brilliant morning at Fly Flatts weather wise with wall to wall sunshine and blue cloudless skies on a light SSW>2 at 4 degrees. Most of the snow gone now but the fringes ot the reservoir still frozen.
Despite the good weather, birding was very quiet with just the usual Red Grouse, 2 Raven, Reed Bunting, 1 Herring gull, plus a couple of Mipits and 6 Mistle Thrush. That was until 0930 hrs when it all kicked off with a big move of Pink Footed Geese which I luckily picked up when scoping the sky for Buzzard.
The geese were well to the SW of me all heading >W and looking to be over the Stoodley Pike region and well out of my 200mm lens range. The move continued between 0930 and 1000 hrs with 4 skeins of roughly guesstimated at 150, 100, 80 and 200 totalling c530 geese.
For some strange reason I have lost Whatsapp when mobile and can only send and receive messages when at home with the internet. After trying everything and following whatsapp instructions still no joy so if anyone whatsapps me and gets no response you know why, likewise, if I message anyone whilst out and about I will have to use normal text messaging.
A cloudy cold morning tomorrow with a threat of fog on a light sou'westerly.
BS.