Fly Flatts p.m. too hot to handle.

With 28  deg at 1500 hrs and only a light S>3 it was way too hot for the team so a one man operation today which didnt please the team too much being left at home but I made it up to them with a good long play in the park when it had cooled off.
                                                                    Things were very quiet up there with a scope of all the shorelines from the north end of the west bank proving that the Turnstone, Teal and Common Scoter had moved on. No follow through of DJSs Whimbrels from this morning, the only waders seen being 1 Common Sandpiper and several Lapwings.
                                                                   Around 30 Black Headed gulls, mostly juvs, were scattered around the shoreline as well as 2 adult and 1 juv LBB with nothing other than Canadas, 2 Barnacle geese, 4 Mallard and the female Tufted, still with 4 young, on the water.
                                                                  Raptor wise, 1 distant Buzzard, 1 SEO , 2 Kestrels and a male Merlin chasing a Mipit which had the sense to drop into the bracken whilst the Merlin drifted off over Tattie Pie Hill.                                                                    Still no sign of returning Wheatear making them over 3 weeks later than usual from previous years.
As I left the wind had increased slightly and turned to the SE>4 feeling much cooler so hopefully a better day tomorrow,
BS