I set off down the track to Shelf Moor but the lack of birds and more particularly, the icy cold W'ly wind caused for common sense to kick in, so I aborted that one.
Knowing that the Cross Lane bog and former Snipe refuge was closed, I did a surreptitious creep around part of the site, owned by the Highfield Minerals Company. It basically is a quarry on a smaller scale to the one up on t'hill - nothing doing.
The fields higher up Briguss Road held many gulls and I'm pleased to say 19 Lapwing.
