A late kick off this afternoon but luckily by 1545 hrs the sun had been blanked out with 90 % cloud cover on a S>3.
Trying to ignore the distraction from the noisy Common Sandpipers and concentrate on the sky was hard although I kept a check on the shoreline just in case we had any new wader sp appeared.
A thorough check on all the Wheatear hot spots failed to produce a single bird which is strange after having a count of 18 at this time last year.
Just the usual species present on the water and around the edges with gulls being the bird of the day with 2 Lesser Blacked gulls present, one an obvious graellsii whilst the other was a very dark, near black winged being a good contender for intermedius.
Meanwhile overhead Herring gulls were on the move >SW with around 50 birds all being non breeder 2cy.
BS