0700 hrs Fly Flatts. A pleasing 90 % cloud cover and cold SE>5 making photography easier and keeping the public away although you dont tend to get many Fly Flatts tourists up there at 0700 hrs on a Sunday morning.
The story was much the same as Leeshaw yesterday with a fresh batch of very fidgety Wheatears with a total of at least 15 on the shoreline and around the SW rocks. Meadow Pipits are gathering ready for the off with c 100 present also on the waterline . The water has dropped enough now to support waders so hopefully something will be dropping in, hopefully a Greenshank as just found by I.H. at Keighley, well done to Ian for hammering his local patch and getting a few good rewards over the summer.
On then to Nab Water Lane where surprisingly there were no migrants present but on arrival BV was watching a distant Buzzard in his scope. Just time to get some shots in then waiting for it to fly but instead it dropped down into the grass and disappeared over the ridge not to be seen again. Typical that we get a Buzzard that decides to walk away rather than fly.
BS