Despite the pouring rain, I made a spur-of-the-moment trip to Leighton Moss this morning and arrived a little after 8am to find the reserve shrouded in fog too.

I headed along the causeway to the public hide to begin with and here saw many, many Swifts and Swallows criss-crossing and skimming the water. There was a couple of adult Great Black-backed gulls sitting on the near island and three juveniles sitting on the water. It goes without saying that there were numerous Coots and Mallards....