What a difference a year made.

                                       Fly Flatts  June 2011

                                                    LBBs

                                             Redshank

                                            Dunlin

                                          Oyks

                                           Ringed Plovers

                                          Sanderling with Ringed Plover

                                           7 of the Ringed Plovers

These pictures were taken early June 2011 at Fly Flatts with water level at an all time low and the best wader count for several years.
Late May/ early June produced
19 Dunlin
5 Sanderling
3 Turnstone
2 Bar Tailed Godwit
12 Common Sandpiper
4 Oystercatcher
19 Ringed Plover
2 Little Ringed Plover
18 Redshank
25 LBB gull
1 Herring gull
1 Yellow Legged Herring gull
1 GBB gull

Dont think we,ll be able to follow that this June.
BS