BTO Winter Bird Survey today - been waiting for at least half-decent conditions given the fog and rain over most of February so far. Sunshine this morning, wall to wall, so made the effort despite the frozen snow covering up there.
Birds were certainly at a premium with most of the Canadas moved out as well as the corvids and most other birds ! Best of the day were 2 Curlew flyovers calling probably heading to some lower elevation to feed. Little else 2 Reed Bunting, several vocal Red Grouse, 1 each Kestrel ,Chaffinch and Blackbird. Even most of the corvids were missing. One hardy Magpie up at The Withens shows how dire it was for birds.
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