As expected, a poor morning with a light SE>2, hot sunshine and 0% cloud cover, a real recipe for a bad visit. The sun was even scorching down at 0645 hrs.
The birds were there but hard to find all lazing in the sun and reluctant to move about in the heat. The pair of Greylags that had disappeared surprised me to find them back on the water with a new family of 7 young whilst another 4 Greylags had come in and joined them.
Two pair of Reed Buntings were around the boat compound area whilst 8 Common Sandpipers and 3 Redshank were around the waters edge.
The saving grace of the morning was 41 very noisy Herring gull over >SW but otherwise the skies were empty with once again no Hirundines or Swift.
BS