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Friday, August 25, 2017

Fly Flatts, Nab Water Lane

                      Always plenty Kestrels around the area

                 juv Kestrel at distance
               Female Merlin keeping well away
                                 First sighting at mega distance
                                          6oo mm
                                               840 mm

                                                           1200 mm but light too low.

1500 hrs at Fly Flatts at the Chat site, Nab Water Lane with 2 hours to kill whilst the dogs were at the groomers so I set my stall up with scope, cameras and bins at the ready. No Whinchat or Stonechat present today but with a lot of distant scoping with the newly arrived BV we started to pick one or two species up.
                       Around 15 Red Legged Partridge were on the distant walls with 2 Kestrels overhead.
Suddenly a small raptor was picked up mega distance away and when scoped it was found to be a female Merlin which flew a little closer onto a wall but in such poor grey light it was out of reach for a decent shot even at 1200 mm, Big Bertha with a x2 converter.
                      Then it all went pear shaped. A Peregrine flew across the moor behind the Merlin and whilst we were watching that for a few seconds the Merlin flew and was replaced in the same distant spot by a juv Kestrel. With the Pere out of the way we continued to try for photos of the Merlin before realizing that we were now photographing a Kestrel.
                           Nothing else showed so a quiet but entertaining 2 hours as I headed back to Pellon to pick the dogs up. On passing Fly Flatts the water was void of birds and no sign of passerines along the top road, not even a Wheatear.