A day for staying inside really but I dragged myself out to Holywell this afternoon with dark skies looming and a wind that carried threats of arctic conditions later.
A quick trip to the public hide showed a couple of meadow pipits feeding in the short grass but nothing else of note. If I was hoping for some respite from the growing gale, the members hide was not the place to go next! Directly in the teeth of the wind, I was glad of the extra jacket as the chill factor soared but it was obvious that the ground temperature was warmer than recently as the pond is starting to defrost and there was a larger area of open water, with waves forming.
That said, the bird life was thinner than Twiggy on a diet! A handful of mallard and 6 wigeon, two mute swans chugging into the wind, a few gulls, two coot, 8 moorhens and a cormorant. The short appearance of a little grebe brightened the view briefly, but it moved off quickly. Six lapwings sat in the field to the east amongst a huge flock of gulls, but by then it was too cold to worry in case there was anything unusual!
Not a huge haul but...Man did that tea taste good!
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