Checked on a few spots today starting at Mixenden Res'r - always in the hope that something will turn up there. It does seem to have gone off a bit from some recent years. Still no sign of wintering Goldeneye.
1 Lapwing was a little surprising as it dropped in with the preening gull flock together with 3 Cormorants and 2 Mallard..
Gulls were disturbed several times usually landing back on the water before returning to the embankment.
60+ Black-headed Gulls, 25+ Common Gulls, 13 Herring Gulls included 6 adults, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls included 5 adults.
Fly Flats - 1 Oystercatcher on the small spit at the bottom of the fence line was a welcome returner but the weather up there might move it on. That was the only bird other than 10 Carrion Crows loafing along the top road.
Ogden - p m in the drizzle. Not a lot better for birds than Fly Flats though a Kingfisher was darting about at the north end. Just a few gulls on the water, mostly Black-headed with a few Commons and 5 Herring Gulls.
Very few passerines other than on the feeders and a pair of Bullfinch in trees near the car park
Also interesting news from the ski-lake at Cromwell Bottom with 3 Scaup, 1 drake and 2 female types, photographed on Sunday (JJL) and again this morning from DJB.
