A sharp decline in quality and quantity today with no more than a handful of cold weather lingerers and precious little by way of newcomers - the weather also didn't help with a deluge through the afternoon curtailing proceedings early. Thirteen
Lapwings, 5
Golden Plovers and a lone
Fieldfare at the Bill and 11
Bar-tailed Godwits, 2
Grey Plovers and a
Lapwing at Ferrybridge were about all that remained by way of a legacy of the cold, with 5
Stonechats and a small increase in
Meadow Pipits at the Bill the only likely new migrants. Twelve
Red-throated Divers passed through off the Bill and winterers still on the list included 6
Purple Sandpipers at the Bill and 2
Great Northern Divers and a
Pale-bellied Brent Goose at Ferrybridge.