Keeping a lookout
Panoramic View
0715-0900hrs Scorching hot with a very slight >SW
Ideal wader movement conditions but not for Ogden. Fly Flatts had its boating open day today so headed for Ogden hoping to bag some waders but the water and shoreline were deserted. DCB seemed to be getting them all at Oxenhope, see his vis mig site for details. A male Blackcap and several Willow Warblers were the only thing of note around the reservoir path.
Back Lane did better producing a single Tree Pipit which flew from the edge of the plantation towards the Devils Tooth. This was a very bright bird looking nearly yellow in the sun. A Spotted Flycatcher was back at its annual site on the bottom fringe of the plantation darting out for flies.
A cuckoo was in the clough calling all morning and just got one brief sighting as it moved positions.
Otherwise an early finish before the sun got too hot. Not often you hear that phrase from an upland birder.
4 LBB Gulls >NW
1 Tree Pipit
1 Spotted Flycatcher
8 Willow Warbler
1m Blackcap
1 Cuckoo
+ usual sp.
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