The twitch is on. Birders galore at Fly Flatts.

               New in today, Ringed Plover

                                      with a different Dunlin from yesterday

 Kept getting a strange feeling I was being watched.

                                    Good to see the lads out.

                                     Ad Peregrine flushed the Plover and dunlins

Dense fog in the valleys first thing but luckily burnt off before rising to Fly Flatts. The sun was annoying combined with very little breeze making scoping the east shore impossible with the reflections until the sun got higher.
                                                A good team effort today with DF, JM and 2 more birders on the top road and me on the west bank so between us we found 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 1 Ringed Plover and 1 Dunlin which was a different bird from yesterdays odd plumaged bird which appeared later in the NE corner only to be flushed by an adult Peregrine along with the other Dunlin and Ringed Plover heading off >NE.
                                                 Yesterdays Dunlin was confirmed to be such, having a black belly, from   DF and NCD.
                               The Greenshank showed briefly under the banking as did both Green Sandpipers all down in the several hidden pools that have now appeared making viewing difficult.
                                  Otherwise it was down to several Lapwing, BHGs and 2 LBBs plus a few Mipits. Strangely an excellent south shore is failing to attract anything but Lapwing so far.
                                  Thanks to DF, JM et al for their help this morning.
No Little Ringed Plover this year yet so must be due along with Ruff and Godwits.
BS