Ogden - frequent thundery showers

 A run out to Ogden this afternoon was a wet affair indeed, with frequent heavy thundery showers. 11 degrees today.

Difficult to keep the camera and bins dry.

Birds:-

It was wet 90% of the outing, but some Gulls were coming and going throughout.

c40 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, c10 Black Headed Gull and 6 Herring Gulls were present at one point.

Possible 1st Summer Common Gull.

Others:-

3 Cormorant (1 with very light plumage - prob. a Juv.).

1 maybe 2 Great Crested Grebe (I didn't see two at the same time but if there was only one it was ubiquitous).

Not much in the trees around the circuit - well not much that I saw anyway!

A Dipper was way down in the bowels of the sluice, seen from the prom.

3 Grey Heron  (Three age groups I think).

A couple of Canada Geese.

I thought about checking out the golf course area but was disconcerted by the rumbling thunder and chickened out.

 Blogger:

It looks like I'm becoming an 'ancient mariner' sticking to posting on blogger.

What, with Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp and other social media platforms it looks like Blogger is losing its attraction.

However, Its good to have some sort of semi-permanent record to look back on - so I'll persevere with it.

Who knows, one day this summer, I might even post something that's so  - "not mediocre".

Possible 1st Summer Common Gull.