Several Common Sandpipers
Still 2 Wheatears hanging round
Good passage of LBB gulls
Curlews bred well
1 of 2 Oystercatchers
A decent morning at Fly Flatts with perfect conditions early on before the sun came through and the clouds broke.
Grey cloudy skies with a slight NW>3 until 0930 when the clouds cleared leaving blue skies and sunshine.
No shoreline whatsoever now but Common Sandpipers hanging on in there along with Redshanks and Oystercatchers.
A good variety of gulls moving >W early doors with Black Headed, Common, Herring and Lesser Black Backed. The only other sky movers were Swallows and Swifts >N.
Hoped for Scoters on the water but not to be after last nights fog lifting early and letting things move on, hence the 4 moved from Ringstone.
63 LBB..................................>W
1 Common gull......................>W
2 Herring gull........................>W
2 Black Headed...................>NW
8 Common Sandpipers
2 Oystercatchers
1 Redshank
2 poss 3 Wheatear females or gone into non breeding plumage.
1 Snipe drumming
4 Greylag geese + 5 chicks
c 300 Canadas inc c40 young
Usual Mipits, Curlews and Corvids.
No Twite, no Goldies, no Red Grouse.
BS
WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING. BRIAN SUMNER. I am based at Queensbury and bird a patch within a 10 mile range of home incorporating 16 stretches of water, several plantations, a belt of woodland, stretches of river and canal and good areas of moorland. I specialize in upland birds, reservoir and sky watching. My local patch is Fly Flatts reservoir. Any reports can be sent by text or call to 07771 705024 or see profile for e mail address. All images on this blog are copyright.(2024).
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