Weekend Wanderings!.....

Wonderful desolation!....

Further up... but no Migrants!.....

Frozen water, snow on the ground but exceptionally hot on the top!.....

Deep frozen Sea!.....

A place with feeling and a blessing!....

blessing....




Overflow outlet channel.....

Still frozen water...... tranquillity and warmth!....

A hint of shore, enough for a few shanks (red)!....

Snow up the clough....

Placid end to a perfect day.... awaiting the nocturnal onslaught!!!

Fair Pendle.....

Waderscape, not to disappoint!....

another waderscape.....

The BIG end!....
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Saturday

On the tops all day here, sixteen miles over six moors in both Lancashire and Yorkshire and all in superb conditions. Meadow Pipits moving north throughout in groups of up to six but with lots of singles, twos and fews. The lunch time period was especially strong, or perhaps I had time to watch more intently whilst having lunch, with also a good resurgence after 1715hrs. (perhaps a few hundred seen naked in total all day) Otherwise Lesser black-backed Gulls moving strongly NW from mid morning, the first time I have noticed this this year. Otherwise no real migrants for me yet despite passing and scrutinising six reservoirs today, wooded moorland cloughs, many in-byes and farmsteads for all the usual stuff. Still lots of lying snow up there but getting away slowly now in the day time thaws.

Sunday

AM. Ten miles of wooded valley and open country located no new migrants for me, suggesting they just arnt here yet, of if they are, being very thin.... or overshot in ideal nocturnal conditions.

Out at our watchpoint during afternoon from just after lunch to 1630hr and whilst starting off ok mipits soon petered out to next to nothing over this side of the hill and only one Lbbgull this afternoon after a good move yday. However this evening c1900 hr whilst walking down to shops, a after a good mipit resurgence with several flocks of well over twenty as well as smaller ones moving north again.

Dave