A misty start with several large banks of fog moving around and not fully clearing until after 0900 hrs leaving cloudy sunshine on a light NW>3 at 8 degrees.
The camera was redundant this morning with the, hard to find, birds either distant of flighty and only the gulls saving the watch. The remains of the gull roost were still on the NE shore with 193 LBB and 2 adult Yellow Legged Herrings, one up from yesterday. By the time I had got half way on the west bank and scoped, counted and identified them the whole shebang blasted off and headed their usual direction of >NE so, still being well out of range, no pics.
After that it was hard work with barren skies, other than a few Mipits in no determined direction, whilst 12 Reed Bunting and a few Goldfinch were around the compound area and 7 noisy Red Grouse on the moor, Grouse being a rare sighting up there now apart from dispersion after a shoot from the west or east moors. The water held just 16 Canada and a single Greylag.
A sunny morning forecast for tomorrow clouding after midday on a light W turning WSW at 7 degrees.
BS