03:28 tick

January 28th
It is not often that you get a patch year tick while tucked up in bed at 03:28 in the morning so today was an exception; I know it was 03:28 as having been woken up by the obviously close passage of a flock of noisy Pink-footed Geese I thought it wise to record at just what time they had passed by! Later in the morning at least three skeins moved west up the Humber involving in excess of 600 birds no doubt en route to Martin Mere from Norfolk. Overnight and morning fog on the coast and further south may have been responsible for a deviation in their normal overland route to the west coast bringing them high over the Humber. So with the last obviously missing species now added and 105 on the January list we need some cold south-easterlies to bring in some scarce grebes and wildfowl if the February progression is to be anything other than very limited!