Fly Flatts

                                           Eck, its like Morecambe Bay

                                                           Plenty shoreline now.

0730-1000hrs   Icy cold NE>5 gusting 6 or in Queensbury terms, enough to blow thi cap off.
At least it was clear and dry after overnight fog and rain though too windy for any raptor movement.
The shoreline is perfect now with mud and islands at the sw and se corners and large expanses of mud up at the ne corner running right along the eastern shore.
Several Mallards now have chicks as do some Canada geese.
Plenty waders on the shorelines but no sign of the LRP today.
Nice to meet Bruce up there being wafted about in the wind but as he told me, just glad to get away from the tele and wedding, wise man.

Fly Flatts
1 Reed Bunting
7 Wheatear
5 Redshank
2 Dunlin
8 Common Sandpiper
2 Oystercatchers
+ usual grouse, curlews geese etc.
no Twite.

Dean Head
4 Common Sandpiper
1 Redshank
2 Greylag
1pr Tufted
11 Canadas with 5 young
6 Willow Warblers, 5 Chaffinch in surrounding trees.
BS