Fog creeping up out of the valley
Mirror reflective still water
Low tide
3 Pheasant in the boat viewing area
Few Herring gulls >SE
1 of 5 Reed Buntings
3 Greylags >NW in the fog
1 of 2 Stonechat
Rare find for this site, Robin.
Probably continental.
Full cloud with light mist and occasional fog banks moving through on a calm NNE>1 at 5 degrees.
Dense fog lower down in the valleys.
Luckily for me the fog hung low leaving Fly Flatts with reasonable visibility so I was able to avoid the Ogden Sunday morning running track and head for the solitude of the hills.
Nothing special but more than I expected and enough to keep the interest flowing. Just 8 Canadas on the water with 7 LBB gulls on the north shore and a steady trickle of Herring gulls >SE. A Buzzard headed towards Castle Carr but was soon lost in the low cloud.
Small passerines were livelier with 5 Reed Buntings, 1 Meadow Pipit and a rare sighting for this site of a Robin which looked slim and pale enough to be a continental. Otherwise 3 Pheasants, 2 Red Grouse and the usual Carrion Crows.
Due to very little breeze todays sailing had to be cancelled.
Another day of the same tomorrow with fog on a very light NE turning E at 6 degrees then cloudy with a chance of some outbreaks of sunshine.
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