A feeling of mid winter this morning at Leeshaw reservoir with a biting cold and moderate W>5 gusting 6 at 4 degrees with near full cloud and odd breaks of sunshine.
A poor do on the wader scene with very little shore though enough to attract any wader activity but just down to 2 Oystercatchers plus the Curlews and Lapwings. Several Lapwing chicks showing of various stages of age, some now well grown but a way off fledging yet.
Plenty Stock Doves in the fields as well as Woodpigeons and Jackdaws along with the usual Greylag and Canada geese. The water held Mallards plus 2 Cormorant. A good gull morning with LBB and Herring gull moving through >W along with a single Black Headed.
The highlight of the morning was undoubtably a Red Kite high over the water being mobbed by, firstly a Raven, and then a Crow before it drifted off >NE. A Cuckoo called briefly from up by the farm area.
Tomorrows forecast not great with some cloudy sunshine and rain expected throughout the day, on a moderate west turning north west at 5 degrees.
BS