Dont worry if you cant see them all, I cant and I know where they are.
Looked ok well blown up.
1500 hrs and a real pleasant walk along the banking at Fly Flatts in a mild S>2-3 and 100 % cloud cover. The water was rippled slightly at the south end but otherwise like a mirror reflecting the clouds and Nab.
Nothing special showing but much livelier than my last visit with 15 Mallards on the water as well as a newcomer, female Tufted which is a rarity for here silly as it sounds. Birders that don,t do upland reservoir watching will wonder why the excitement about a Tufted duck when the local parks are full of them but believe me, a Tufted duck on Fly Flatts, Mixenden or Ogden is a special bird to us Hill Billys.
The continuation of Herring gull movement ,that has been apparent throughout the day all >SW , was still going at last light with birds very high and in twos and threes with around 18 over in the hour I was up there. Otherwise it was down to a few Black Headeds and around 12 Red Grouse which had to listen to their mates getting blasted away by saddos somewhere over the moor to the west.
On route to Fly Flatts I called at Raggalds Flood after a text from DW saying the Snipe were again showing from yesterday. As I arrived DW was just walking up the hill away from the flood but scanning across the field there were no Snipe to be found and I was beginning to think they must have just left when a head appeared in the reedy left hand corner of the water.
Steadying the bins on the side of the car a careful scan found 5 and from several shots of the area later revealed the other 3 in reeds further left of the others.
If I had,nt been looking for the known Snipe Id have had a quick scan and said there was nothing present. Thanks once again to DW for the text.
BS