A very patchy session that improved near the end of the game.
Soil Hill: pr Snipe, 8 Meadow Pipit.
Now for the patchy bit; Ogden. The plantation was dead and the reservoir just about still having a pulse. 1 Herring Gull among the smaller ones and a very nervous female Tufted Duck that departed toward Cold Edge after splashing down near the W shore.
At 1205 hrs I was stood below the wood at Stod Fold when a skein of Pink-footed Geese flew over > E between Mixenden Res and Hunter Hill calling loudly. The trees obscured the view to such a degree I couldn't estimate the number of birds but I don't think it was a large flock.
Also here were 4 Mistle Thrush and 1 each of GSW & Blackbird.
Mixenden Res held 1 Cormorant and a female Goosander that kept company with a pr Goldeneye. Among the many gulls there appeared a very large sub-adult phase job that I concluded could only be a GBBG.
