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a day dominated by fog did not seem likely to produce any new birds for the year but the hard frost had frozen many of the local pits and forced the wildfowl onto the Humber; a large flock of Wigeon and Gadwall drifting west with the tide held two pairs of Pintail and three rather odd looking white birds which on closer examination turned out to be swimming Avocets; not an unexpected tick in recent years with the high numbers now on the Humber but an odd sight in mid February 110