Atrocious conditions this morning at Leeshaw reservoir with thick fog on the tops leaving Leeshaw just below the cloud base with a strong SW>5 gusting 6 bringing continuous heavy horizontal drizzle throughout at 8 degrees.
I had to get my wader head off this morning and swop it for my gull and tern head as I headed for Leeshaw to get below the fog. Conditions were ideal for moving terns and gulls though this never materialized with just a single LBB gull through >W.
The only waders, other than Curlew and several Lapwings, were 4 Oystercatchers with no sign of any small waders, even after several thorough scopes of the shore.
Around 50 Canada geese and 75 Greylag + goslings with a good year for breeding Greylag at this site. A Cuckoo was calling up on Bodkin Rough but remained unseen whilst Pied Wagtails and Meadow Pipits were moving around the banking top.
Early p.m. and a Peregrine was soaring in the wind over Matalan, Halifax.
Another morning of cloud and showers at 13 degrees and chance of more early morning fog despite a moderate to strong WSW.
BS