Quiz night. Fly Flatts

                One for the bug experts

                                                           3" long

  Fly Flatts didnt look like this early morning

                                      Plenty scraggy Wheatears coming in.

                                    Looks like down to 4 Common Sandpipers now

                           Going for Hobby with this but with
     Red Footed Falcon about who knows.

   Mega distance, around 3 mile and in sun towards Walshaw Dean

   Mega fast flyer and rising very high.

Fly Flatts 1500  - 1700 hrs In contrast to this mornings visit the sky was blue and the sun shining with a W>4. Around 30 % cloud cover. Still good numbers of Swifts around which may have aroused the above Hobby which appeared coming up the Calder valley from the south and continued >WNW towards Walshaw Dean. The bird was a good 3 miles away and right in the sun but a quick scan with bins revealed the face mask and rufousy underside although heavily silhouetted.
                                                           A walk the full length of the water from SE corner to NW corner revealed :-

4 Common Sandpiper
1 Hobby
9 Wheatear
1 Golden Plover
+ usual sp.
BS