A real wet, dark morning at Low Moor with heavy rain until 0915hrs when it brightened up slightly with a light S>3 at 11 degrees.
Water is now up to the top in the park which has spoilt it for the gulls with no shore but still Herring, LBB, Common and Black Headed on the water. Otherwise, 8 Tufted and 2 Gt Crested Grebe along with the usual duck pond species of Coot, Moorhen and Mallard. The feature here being 6 female and 1 male Goosander. The trees held a few Chaffinch and Blackbirds, plus the usual species.
Park Dam had 10 Mute Swan, 2 Gt Crested Grebe, 1 f Goosander and a few Tufted, along with 4
Cormorant and a few small gulls.
The end is in sight for birding at Park Dam with the large access field at the Harold Park end, by the dam, now being fenced off for the commencement of the building of 173 houses. Another one bites the dust.
A text this morning at 0945hrs from my watchman PT, at Shelf Moor, reporting a skein of Pinkies heading >NW ish over the lion gates at Shelf Moor. Thanks for that Peter.
Showing it as cloudy sunshine for the morning on a light SE at 10 degrees.