With the car in for M.O.T this morning I had to be in Halifax for 0830 hrs and then wander round the town with the local druggies to pass on a couple of hours. It made me understand why everyone uses Amazon now with no shops of any meaning.
WH Smiths had 3 bird books aged at the under sevens whilst Janet Greens had 4 second hand, well out of date lenses, and no SLR cameras. The store is now taken over with printing machines for mobile sim cards. Most of the other half decent shops are boarded up.
Strange how most of the druggies ask for money because they are stranded and need to get back to Leeds?
On the plus side, I got down the Woolshops just in time to see one of the Pied Wagtail roosts dispersing from a tree with excess of 50 birds flying off. I was told that 2 trees down there are packed with them last light.
The berry trees down by Wickes held Blackbirds, Mistle Thrush and Redwings but no arrivals of Waxwings as yet, though Scotland are now reporting a few. Otherwise, just a single Peregrine up on the spire, watching around 100 feral pigeons flying round.
Back home for 1100 hrs but still thick fog and heavy drizzle so just the usual wet dog walks around Foxhill.
I just looked on the Slimbridge Reserve live webcam with wall to wall Shelduck, Pochard, Pintail and Teal along with hundreds of Tufted and Lapwings as well as Whooper, Bewick's and Black Swan. There is also still a large Dunlin and Turnstone roost there. Thats knocked the excitement of Ogden in the morning.
A part cloudy morning for tomorrow with a moderate SSW at 3 degrees.
BS.