A touch of spring
Plenty Canadas around
LBBs moving >N
Common Sandpiper returned.
Good job it was me with a camera and not a nugget with a 12 bore.
Fly Flatts 0715-1000hrs. Sunshine, Frozen puddles, icy cold N>5. Good visibility.
A pleasant but cold morning with the north wind blasting across the water but sunshine making the birds move.
Meadow Pipits were moving >N along with LBB and Common gulls whilst later in the morning Swallows and House Martins were coming through.
Only 1 distant Wheatear across on the rocks below the track and no sign of Twite but managed to find the Common Sandpiper near the boathouse,reported by Calderbirds earlier in the week.
6 Pied Wagtail
2 Redshank
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Snipe
1 Wheatear
13 LBBs..............................>N
2 BH gull.............................>N
3 House Martin...................>N
5 Swallow...........................>N ........2 Blogging
29 Meadow Pipits...............>N
Usual Canadas, Red Grouse , Curlews, etc
BS