Double Header, Fly Flatts a.m. / Soil Hill p.m.

FLY FLATTS  0800 hrs to 1000 hrs.

                                   Sunrise at Fly Flatts

         Jet streams reflecting on the water.

                                 Reservoir full to overflowing

                                   Calm conditions

                                         Gushing overflow

        Once the babbling brook , now a torrent .

                                             The Nab

                                         Don,t get better than this at Fly

                Until the fog came in briefly.

                                                         Raven cronking over.

     Very distant buzzard over the moor

                     Dave Franz on a mission.

An amazing morning after yesterdays deluge with wall to wall sunshine and clear blue skies remaining dead calm until 0915 hrs when a slight WSW>3 got up bringing fog over the moor briefly.
Good to meet up with DF where we watched a very dark Buzzard sp. drifting low over the moor towards us before dropping down into a valley never to be seen again. A second Buzzard was sat on a fence post before disappearing towards Oxenhope. Plenty Pinkies moving but none viewed from Fly Flatts.

1m Stonechat
2 Buzzard
1 SEO
1 Reed Bunting
2 Raven
11 Mallard

SOIL HILL   1400 hrs to 1515 hrs

                  Group of c 42 Fieldfare moving around the fields

                                        Common gulls heading to roost

                    as well as LBBs.

Just over 1 hour late afternoon on a pleasant Soil Hill in the good company of Daniel Branch.
Things looked quiet but with a bit of patience and scanning a half decent list was compiled.
Fieldfares were the star of the show with a total of c42 moving around the hill with a flock of 24 above the hill and 18 ish low down ground hopping .
Again several reports of Pinkies on the move but no sightings from the hill despite 360 deg scanning.

2 Meadow Pipits
1 Skylark
c42 Fieldfare
3 Goldfinch
31 Lapwing >S
+ usual sp.
Good luck to Daniel on a very hard and final year at uni, I,m sure he,ll be a big success.
BS