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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Breezy Fly Flatts

Curlews on the move
Common Sands can,t read.
Armada of Canadas

Fly Flatts  0715-1000hrs.  Strong SW>6 gusting 7. slight showers then sunshine.
A good morning early on before it quietening by 0930hrs.
Curlews were moving through with still one or two on the moor,whilst Meadow Pipits were starting to show signs of flocking ready for the big move. Swifts blazed through early doors which was probably a feeding party skirting the approaching weather front and the highlight of the watch was 2 Common Terns heading >NW which nearly got past me before I realized they were not BH gulls .
244 Canadas
2 Common Sandpipers
2 juv Grey Wagtails
3 Curlew on moor
8 Curlew >W
173 Swift >SW
2 Common Tern >NW
43 Meadow Pipits
8 LBB gull >N
BS