With a strong wind and terrential rain showers it was match abandoned with too windy for Fly Flatts and Ogden not a safe place to be under the trees, so I settled for a few very wet and windy dog walks over Foxhill and took advantage of the bad weather by getting both dogs bathed and groomed, so that's a big job done for another 6 weeks.
Foxhill park held 10 Common gull, all stomping for worms and enjoying the softened ground, along with several Woodpigeons and the usual 4 Crows. The adult Crows bred 2 young this year which are still present, one having a pure white belly and the other having brilliant white wing bars.
Its a good job wader season is over with the amount of rain today, which will have now covered most of the shore at Fly Flatts. A big influx of Yellow Browed Warblers in the country now, up north, so one to look out for at Ogden. The last sighting there being 29th-30th Sept 2012 whilst Dan Branch located one on Soil Hill 29th Sept 2024.
Talking of Soil Hill, the summit is back to clear rubble and pools as it was many years ago when Snow Bunting was a common winter species up there. The late, great Halifax birder Gordon Denison had a feeding station up there which regularly attracted winter Twite, Shore Lark, Lapland Bunting and Snow Bunting. Gordon was an amazingly dedicated birder whom I spent many happy hours with at Fly Flatts where his feeding station on the west bank also attracted the same as Soil Hill.
Tomorrow could go either way with a strong WNW bringing sunshine and showers at 9 degrees.
BS