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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Fly Flatts/Raggalds Flood


                                  Only 2 Common Sandpipers found

                Plenty young, Canadas above, Greylag below

                                      Fly Flatts ponds
                                  Just the 1 Wheatear showing

Fly Flatts 0700-1000hrs
An icy cold NW>5 which dropped by 0900hrs leaving warm sunshine.
Fly Flatts had the sound of silence with birds busy nesting on the moors and Curlews only rising up calling when disturbed by a passing predator.
Only 2 Common Sandpipers remained from my last count of 9 and a single f Wheatear was very mobile.

Raggalds Flood on the way back found 1 Redshank, 1 Oystercatcher and the usual Lapwing.

Fly Flatts
2 Common Sandpiper
1 f Wheatear
2 Redshank
3 Oystercatchers
4 Red Grouse
6 LBB gulls >N
Umpteen Canadas and Greylags all with young.
No Twite, just 2 Mipits on the seed.
BS