With dense fog and very heavy drizzle all day on a light NE it was another dip day.
Just to remind myself that there are birds out there, or rather, have been, here's just a few of the specials from this year so far.
Black Tailed Godwit, Fly Flatts Bar Tailed Godwit, Leeshaw Ruff, Fly Flatts Wood Sandpiper, Fly Flatts Little Egrets, Fly Flatts Great White Egret, Harold Park Pochard, Park Dam Whooper Swans, various sites. Pintail, Redcar Tarn and TMR Shoveler, Redcar Tarn and Wibsey Park 4 Scaup, Elland Gravel Pits.
Turnstone, Fly Flatts Red Kite, several sites Marsh Harrier, 1 of 2 Fly Flatts Long eared Owl, Various sites. Black Swan, Horton Bank Top, found by NK. Black Redstart, Soil Hill. 1 of 2 found by DJS. Whinchat, 1 of 2, Fly Flatts Grasshopper Warbler, Fly Flatts Yellow Legged Herring gull, Ogden Pink Footed Geese, several sightings Red Necked Grebe, Leeshaw.
Supposedly cloudy sunshine for morning on a light NE, which could bring fog, with temp down to 3 degrees.
BS
