A powerful W>6 gusting 7 this morning put paid to the birding and the sailing with cloudy sunshine at 10 degrees. All sailing cancelled.
Once again the near gale force wind cleared the site of birds with just 23 LBB gulls briefly in the NW corner before dropping down the valley. A blustery walk the length of the west bank produced 3 Common Sandpipers and 3 Oystercatchers with nothing on the northern muddy shore.
A few Lapwing and Curlew were in the more sheltered fields whilst the Canadas and Greylags kept mainly to the eastern fields in the long grass.
Cloudy sunshine forecast for tomorrow starting at 13 degrees but still a moderate westerly.
BS