Bright and breezy at Fly Flatts late afternoon with 90 % bright cloud cover on a W>4 at 18 m.p.h.
A massive Swift feeding party was present at all levels with birds skimming the water at the lower level and birds at an upper level only visible through scanning at a ridiculous height and not visible to the naked eye. The Swifts were on a broad front as far as you could see to the west and to the east possibly moving in front of a weather system with what must have been several hundreds of birds.
The west bank was out of bounds today for Y.W. grass cutting so I stuck to the boat compound area watching the east and south banks.
Several young Lapwing were darting about as well as Common Sandpiper chicks whilst Redshanks were getting excited around where the grass cutting was going on though I dont think any young were in danger there.
Just a single Dunlin present in the boat compound area but as I got back to the car and scoped the north east peninsular another 3 were on the pebble beach there.
Apart from the Swifts the only moving birds in the air were 2 Herring gull and 3 LBB gull all >SW.
Yesterdays 4x4 is still firmly bogged down and surprisingly still in one piece although I did,nt check to see if the engine had gone!
Half way through the month now so those Scoters must be on their way.
BS.