1515 hrs and back to some normal healthy Fly Flatts weather with 70 % cloud cover and an icy cold NE> 5 at 19 mph but dropping and coming brighter by the end of the watch but good whilst it lasted.
The water was very choppy with white horses lashing the west bank and giving the ducklings and goslings a hard time.
The skies were much livelier with several Curlew and Lapwing up whilst Herring and LBB gulls moved >W and > SW.
A single Buzzard moved high over the moor on the usual flight path of >NE disappearing over the Nab and up to 11 Common Sandpiper were along the west bank but still no sign of the 4 Dunlin which look to have gone .
Up to 3 pair of Reed Buntings are present along with 2 pair of Pied Wagtail and 1 pair of Grey Wagtail whilst Mipits are everywhere at the moment but not so Wheatears with now no birds present in the area along with Swifts although HC has reported them over Oxenhope and some moving over mega high in the bright skies.
Back at the Nolstar field a lot of searching found 3 Goldies in the juncus then another 6 dropped in just as I was leaving. A Cuckoo was calling sounding to come from somewhere between Slaughter Gap and Ogden Golf course.
BS