Bad news for the boats but good for the birds.
Bring on the Terns.
Another hot and sticky 26 degrees day but not at Fly Flatts. Late afternoon the blue sky was showing a few small dashes of cloud and the savior of the day was a moderate E>4 gusting 5 which well and truly counteracted any heat from the sun. Still way too bright sending the camera settings all over the place and having to readjust for every shot.
A few gulls were moving >NE, some dropping briefly on the water before moving off again with 9 LBBs, 3 BHGs and 5 Herring, one of which was extremely pale and almost grey. This bird stopped on the water just long enough for photos to show it was a Herring gull.
Just the one Dunlin on the now empty lagoon with no sighting of its mate and the chick, whilst 7 juv and 4 adult Common Sandpipers were present with several adults now moved on.
No sign now of Curlew or Redshank and just a single Lapwing guarding a well grown chick.
Amazing how quickly the little bumbly Canada chicks have grown in the last few weeks now showing their head and neck colours and getting hard to tell them from the adults.
A family of 4 Ravens showed briefly over the Nab but dropped straight back down behind the ridge before Bertha could get her act together.
BS