The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Fly Flatts/ Hunter Hill

A blustery Fly Flatts

Remember the north shoreline

Dark skies over Hunter Hill

A poor start weather wise at Fly Flatts with S>4 increasing S>6 and drizzle with moderate visibility.
Skies were lively until 0915 when movement stopped other than a few Starlings powering through.
The sight of the morning was a flock of c150 Starings carpet crawling over the moor like a black cloud, and 3 Wigeon over heading north.
A single female Goosander was on the water which was unusual.
Hunter Hill was much calmer wind wise but had empty skies other than a few corvids. Three blogging Mipits there were the only ones seen and the moor at Fly Flatts seemed strangely quiet without them.

Fly Flatts
380 Starling.................................>NW
3 Wigeon......................................>N
92 Fieldfare.................................>NW
12 Redwing.................................>NW
15 LBB Gulls..............................>S
1 Herring Gull............................>W
130 Woodpigeons......................>S
5 Snipe.......................................>W
1f Goosander on water.

Hunter Hill
3 Blogging Meadow Pipits
usual corvids.
BS
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