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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Fly Flatts

                                    Plenty Common Sandpipers around




                                          1 of 2 elusive Golden Plover

Fly Flatts   0600-1000 hrs
A sticky warm morning with a slight S>3 and blue skies clouding slightly mid watch.
Swarms of flies were present bringing hundreds of Swifts through all heading >S.
The moors were much quieter this morning with just 1 Curlew heard and the Oystercatchers and Redshanks gone. Nothing on the water other than a record count of 400 + Canadas and a few Greylag,
Two Dunlin were mobile across on the east bank whilst a Peregrine was harassing Mipits well out over the moor.
A couple of Golden Plover were back in the sheep field near the top gate, once a common area for them , whilst none were found at hunter Hill.

A check on Mixenden on the way home failed to produce any Scoter.

Fly Flatts
Peregrine
Kestrel
2 Dunlin
2 Golden Plover
1 Curlew
7 Lapwing
6 Common Sandpiper
5 LBB gulls
400 + Canadas
25 Greylag
+ usual Meadow Pipits.
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