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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Sunday, May 20, 2018

Fly Flatts, early a.m.

                                       1 Barnacle still present
                                     Grey Wagtails always nice to see
            Unusual for a skein of 11 Greylags to drop in
                                    LBB gull on chick patrol
  Always the Common Sands to fall back on.





An early morning visit to Fly Flatts was hot and uncomfortable as expected although a pleasant SW>3 was blowing across the west back .
                                                            A lively morning with the usual species though nothing special and the Ringed Plovers and Dunlins moved through.
This morning gave a count of 83 Canada chicks whilst the Greylag chicks are now well grown and getting out of the danger zone.
                                               Up to 9 Common Sands present along the west bank along with 2 Grey Wagtail and 3 Pied but only a single Wheatear across on the Robin rocks whilst a Merlin skimmed across the moor. A Cuckoo called throughout from down in the valley .
Otherwise it was Curlew,  Lapwing , Mipits , Reed Buntings etc.
Good to bump into DP on the banking giving his scope some stick.
                                                     A drive along the top road failed to produce Wheatear or Stonechat.
BS