Dense freezing fog and drizzle on the tops this morning making it very bad underfoot. Ogden was slightly better with visibility a third of the way across the water and very calm on a light SE>2 at
0 degrees. Heavy rain by 0930 hrs.
As dark as night along the west bank but fairly lively with Gt , Blue and Coal Tits as well as 2 Treecreeper, a single Nuthatch and the usual Robin, Wren and Blackbird. A noisy Raven flew overhead, heard but unseen up in the fog.
The highlight of the morning was, as I was walking on the west bank I got the familiar sound of whistling wings as a female Goldeneye came in to land, splashing down on the water. By the time I got to a better opening in the trees it had gone into the middle of the water and lost in the fog, not to be seen again. Could only make out 3 Black Headed gulls on the water.
Looking like the same weather scenario for tomorrow with rain, snow and tons of the usual fog still on a SE light wind.
BS