Plenty young Meadow Pipits
Common Sandpipers on the up.
Fly Flatts 0730 -1000hrs Early rain then cloudy sunshine. Cold W>4
A pleasing morning with plenty bird activity though little movement in the skies.
Signs of dispersal were apparent with several squadrons of Starlings moving fast and direct >W and >NW.
Curlews were grouping with flocks of 12, 5 and 6 on the edge of the moor, also several loose birds were flying around. The groups were all long billed birds so obvious movers and not juvs.
Common Sandpipers were everywhere with several young calling.
House Martins were plentiful for the first time this year and Swifts trickled through.
1 Snipe
230 Starling >W and >NW
10 Common Sandpiper inc young
28 Curlew
2 Pied Wagtails
1 Reed Bunting
2 Redshank
4 LBB gulls >N
1 Herring gull >W
2 Common gull >W
11 Swift >N
21 House Martin >NW
42 Canadas and upteen young.
No Twite or Wheatears
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