Todmorden Easter Monday

Longfield Pond was at once grey and then blue, as the clounds moved across the sky - the water was ringed by green then the zebra stripe of grass and snow - only a pair of mallards swan over the dam. No other bird stirred apart from a distant crow - then wheeling into the sky a female sparrowhawk, circling to raise height (in a non-existent thermal), then drifted back and forth over the grass.
Tomorrow is Lady Day - the medieval new year's day and the start of my birding year - Leighton Moss here I come!