0700 hrs at Fly Flatts with clear blue skies, 0% cloud cover and very light NW>2, an excellent recipe to make an upland birder miserable. By 0800 hrs the temperature was up and the swarms of flies were out in force, lovely.
Again there were good numbers of Swift feeding over the water but otherwise the skies were quiet other than a couple of Lapwings still with young.
Just 1 of yesterdays drake Tufted remained on the water well into eclipse and now possibly a non flyer until after the moult.
Wader wise, 2 Redshank are still at the northern end but the 2 southern end pairs with young have left along with several Curlews, leaving 4 birds with fast growing young so very soon the moors will be without the call of the Curlew.
Nab Water Lane was quiet with no Stonechat present which is unusual, just several Mipits ,Linnets and Red Legged Partridge.
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