After another day of non stop rain todays report was looking grim apart from 38 mixed small gulls in Foxhill park at midday, ideal conditions for them as it is three parts flooded.
A planned after tea trip to Ogden was thwarted when I had to do a breakdown at Shelf and as I was coming back at 1830 it was already near dark.
A quick divert around Corporal Hill to check the flooded fields found several small gulls but already leaving for roost. Mallards were enjoying the new field ponds with around 15 counted whilst 3 Grey Partridge dashed across the road and disappeared in the long grass. One Little Owl was sheltering amongst the breeze blocks with another screaming from lower in the valley.
A customer came in today to tell me they were at their caravan over the weekend at Knott End near Fleetwood on the Wyre estuary where 100s of Pink Footed geese were coming in to the salt marshes. She said the noise was frightening as they came over the caravan and at some points the sky was nearly black with them. Im really glad she told me that after Id stood at Fly Flatts for 4 hrs without seeing any on Sunday.
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