A disappointing morning with an icy cold W>6 and light rain showers.
Fly Flatts was nearly unworkable in the strong wind with white horses steaming across the water.
Cold Edge was a little more sheltered but quiet in the skies.
Fifteen minutes sky watching from Corporal Hill on the way home failed to find any Swifts though text reports were coming in of small numbers.
Fly Flatts 0615-0730hrs
2 Oystercatcher
3 Common Sandpiper
+ usual sp.
Cold Edge Dams 0730-0930hrs
1 Wheatear
5m 2 f Tufted duck
8 Reed Bunting
2 Chaffinch
11 Goldfinch
4 Willow Warblers
2 Redshank
Plenty Swallows
+ usual sp.
No sign of DJSs Stonechat., or Goldies.
Raggalds Flood
Small amount of water but nothing appealing
Corporal Hill Qby.
Several Swallows >N
8 Meadow Pipits
15 Goldfinch
1 Pied Wagtail
4 Lapwing.
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