Fly Flatts 0630- 0945 hours Bright, slight SE>3 Clouding and wind increase after 0900hrs.
One of those mornings when you can smell the birds as soon as you arrive. Wheatears were everywhere with one Greenland sp. on its own at the nw corner but typically very mobile and camera shy unlike the northerns.
Common Sandpiper numbers are growing and several Canadas now have young.
A vocal Tree Pipit moved over >NW along with a distant Raven and whilst checking the fields by the wind farm car park for DJSs Ring Ouzels the above Cuckoo flew around mobbed by Mipits and was firstly mistaken by me for a Pere. All in all a great morning.
9 nth Wheatear
1 Greenland Wheatear
1Tree Pipit............................>NW
1 Raven...............................>NW
6 Common Sandpiper
1 Redshank
6 Greylag geese
sev Canadas with young
1 Oystercatcher
1 Cuckoo
2 RL Partridge
1 Lapwing
1 Snipe drumming
+ usual sp.
dipped on JWs Whinchat and DJSs Ring Ouzels.
BS.