Fly Flatts 0630-0930 hrs
One of those mornings where you dont want to get out of the car with a howling WNW>6, low cloud and horizontal drizzle.
By 0715 things were looking a little brighter with the rain passed over and the cloud lifted just leaving the strong wind but even a hint of sun.
The shoreline was a hive of activity with the first returning Wheatears mixed in with several juv Pied Wagtails. Many of the Wheatears were juvs.
Waders seemed to be everywhere with Common Sandpipers with their young whilst a juv Redshank was present.
Swifts were piling >S , several already headed out of the country over Spurn Point, see BTO Migration blog link.
A quick unusual call made me spin round just in time to see what I took to be a Whimbrel take off from beyond the boathouse low over the water then off very down the Calder valley. Unsure whether it was Whimbrel or young Curlew at the distance until back home the call and photos confirmed it.
11 Wheatear
6 Common Sandpiper + 1 juv
1 Redshank
5 LBB gulls
1 Snipe
4 juv Lapwing
sev juv Pied Wagtail
1 Whimbrel
3 Drake Tufted
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