A foggy start at Queensbury with Redcar Tarn misty with drizzle but soon clearing to full cloud with hazy sunshine on a light W>3 at 6 degrees.
As always at this site the place was heaving with birds, its amazing how this small stretch of water attracts so many birds and species, it must be the amount of feeding that goes on continuously up there.
Gull wise, there were in excess of 300 Black Headed on the water and in surrounding fields, along with c 45 Herring, 8 Common and 2 Lesser Black Backed. A good search through failed to find a Yellow Legged Herring or Med gull though many gulls were in distant fields and the light was very silhouetted.
Large counts of all the usual Tufted, Mallard, Canada, Greylag, Coot and Moorhen along with the long staying drake Pintail and Wigeon.
A walk on Tarn Lane to the Brambling hot spot trees produced a few Chaffinch but no Brambling present.
An amazing venue to visit but a nightmare drive there early morning with works traffic, temporary traffic lights and schools, taking 1 hour to do the 11 miles there and 30 minutes coming back.
A report from BV today saying that the Red Necked Grebe is now on Lower Laithe so possibly making its way back to Leeshaw.
Looking good for tomorrow with wall to wall sunshine on a light sou'westerly at 7 degrees before the temperature plummets for the weekend.
BS