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A trip out early morning to Boundary Mills, Colne.

(As I left the house a solitary Fieldfare was in the tree opposite -  taking my 2020 garden tick list to 47).

A very quick in and out of Boundary Mills, thank the lord - not my bag.

The road beyond Ponden was a victim of loads of water flowing over it, from the moor.

On our way there 5 Large Geese (?) were flying SSW very high in the murk, too distant for any meaningful ID (at least from me, but probably experienced vis-miggers would be able to tell?).

On our way back we looked at or called at a good few reservoirs.

The reservoirs are all teeming full now with all this rain of late.

Passing  Watersheddles I saw nothing on the water.

Passing Ponden, just a few Canada Geese and a few Gulls on the water here.

We stopped at Lower Laithe for a few minutes, but again, just a few Small Gulls here.

We stopped at Leeshaw Reservoir, Oxenhope for a bit longer.

2 Cormorant, a few Mallard.

c10 Small Gulls.

A 2nd Winter Herring Gull(?) had caught something and was dropping it into the water, then swooping down to retrieve it again.

Another longer stop at Leeming, again the water was teeming in …  and out of it.

A Buzzard, that I mistook for a Crow, until it was nearly out of sight!

1 Male Tufted Duck.

Mallard.

A few Small Gulls.

6 or so Long Tailed Tits along the tree lined path.

With a few other Tit sp.

Kestrel.

A Kestrel hunting by Keelham Farm Shop.

Some water in raggalds flood but no birds.

'Hundreds' of Starling on the wires along Pavement Lane - this seems to be a real favourite place for them.

I must count them properly one day soon!

I was a tad fortunate today, after all the reservoir visits etc, we were having some scran at home when the lens in my glasses fell out onto the floor.

It proves quite difficult to find a piece belonging to your glasses when you haven't any glasses to see it with!

Anyway a trip to Halifax, Specsavers got me up and running again so now I've actually been to Specsavers, tomorrows'  birds will be even more awsome than todays'.