It is an undisputed fact that the coldest place on the planet is the main hide at Seaforth Nature Reserve.
If you never got to experience the gulag that was an early morning in this dark, forbidding box in the days before permit-only access trust me _ it could be more bracing than nude tobogganing on a glacier _ without a sledge.
But this morning as the north wind bites and little drifts of hail/snow lie around the city (5.30am), the rest of Liverpool is running it fairly close....
The upside is that with such fierce weather, the marine lakes at West Kirby, New Brighton, Crosby and Southport are worth checking for sheltering seaduck, grebes or even divers.
You could always try inland at Pennington Flash _ there's already been a Red Necked Grebe there this winter after all.
Who knows _ a wrecked Little Auk would be nice, or a good showy diver.
The winds brought two Little Gulls in off Anglesey yesterday _ surely they winter out in the Irish Sea?
If you can find a gull roost today they should be looked out for, dancing in the air while bigger gulls squat on the ground sheltering from the wind.
Garden feeding stations should draw in more birds too _ you never know what might turn up.
Oh yeah, my Daily Post column tommorrow is on water rails, stonechats, marsh birding and the Corby trouser press.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies.
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