Another of those icy cold mornings at Leeshaw with an ENE>4 at 3 degrees. Fog on the tops but just cloudy here with some sun by 0900 hrs.
Once again the icy cold wind from the east played havoc with the birding with empty skies, other than the local Curlew, Lapwing Oystercatcher and Redshank. Just 3 LBB and a single Herring gull present, the LBBs battling with a Heron and several Crows over a dead Trout washed up on the far banking. I though the mix of hill fog and moderate wind may bring me a Little gull but I've been watching for a local Little Gull for 60 years birding now and its yet to happen, although they have been reported at Leeshaw and FlyFlatts in my early days of birding in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, but very few sightings and usually of single birds. I seem to remember BV had a group of 6 over Leeshaw in years gone by. I'll keep watching and hoping though, I'm rapidly running out of time now.
Nothing else of note with just the usual species but just another 3 days of these low temperatures and easterlies then a rise in temperature and wind from the west. Forecast for tomorrow, as today.
A Lesser Black Backed gull was a rare visitor to Foxhill Park this afternoon.
BS