A misty start to the morning at Leeshaw with dark full cloud on a light SW>3 at 4 degrees.
An amazing number of gulls present this morning with excess of 300 Black Headed, c30 Common,
53 Herring and 2 LBB, all scoped through but no Caspian, Yellow Legged or Med gulls found. Hopefully this will be the time for Iceland after missing out last year.
I would have thought that the single, long staying , Pink Footed goose would have moved yesterday with the big blast off but it was still in with the Greylags this morning. Possibly an older, non breeding bird not fancying the long flight north.
Other than the gull spectacular it was down to the normal expected species with plenty to see but nothing outstanding apart from the Dipper in the beck and a small flock of 9 Fieldfare overhead. The Red Necked Grebe has,nt arrived back at this site as yet so possibly still on Lower Laithe but no time to check this morning by the time I,d scoped through all the gulls.
A misty start expected in the morning then a brighter day than today on a light SW but temp down to zero early morn.
BS