A day of sunshine and showers, the sun being hot and the showers being torrential.
A late afternoon checking the reservoirs and dodging the showers gave a nice variety of birds but only 2 waders, Common sandpiper at Leeshaw which I have had on call for a few days and today managed a quick sighting as it flew onto the south shore and out of sight. The other being a Redshank which flew low over the moor at Nab Water Lane probably flushed by the boats at Fly Flatts.
Wheatear were at 3 of the locations with Stonechat at 2 but no sign of Whinchats. Leeshaw is the only one of my local reservoirs with plenty shoreline so has the most likely chance of picking up waders with Ogden second, although waders don,t like dropping down into a surround of trees so this site has never been wader friendly.
Fly Flatts has very limited shoreline so it only takes one dog walker to walk around and the bird is gone.
Leeshaw
1 Yellow Legged Herring gull
4 LBB gull
1 Common gull
15 BH gull
1 Little Owl
2 Wheatear
1 Sparrowhawk
6 Cormorant
Sev Swallows................>SE
Nab Water Lane
1 Peregrine
1 f Merlin
1 Wheatear
1pr Stonechat
1 Redshank
Sev Swallows.................>SE
Fly Flatts
4 Wheatear
1m Stonechat
Sev Swallows...................>SE
Nolstar
c100 Linnets very mobile
c 40 Goldfinch
Foxhill 1900 hrs
Large flocks of Swallows over...............>E
BS.