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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Sunday, November 4, 2012

Fly Flatts

                            Still a few Meadow Pipits on the moor
                                         Dead calm waters

                         Looking over Dean Head to Stoodley Pike
                                     The conduit
                                       Fog creeping over the moor
                                         Ready for blankout.

Fly Flatts   0700-1000hrs. Treacherous road conditions over the tops with sheet ice but a bright clear morning with fog in the valleys not rising up until it was time to leave. Not a breath of wind at first then a slight ESE>3.
Most birds seen were over Queensbury on the way there with several flocks of Fieldfare and Redwing >W and Woodpigeons >S.
Fly Flatts was exceptionally quiet with a few BHGs on the water plus the usual Red Grouse and the skies were empty. A few straggling Mipits were still on the moor and may overwinter there and the highlight of the morning was 2 Raven seen and heard at distance >S.
A single wader called as I was near the boathouse but only got the one stab at it and couldnt make out where it came from. Sounded like the first note of a Curlew but will have to dig into this further.
Apologies for late entry but the internet server has been down all day.
BS