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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Match abandoned. Fly Flatts.

Rain I don,t mind, torrential rain I can contend with but torrential rain and fog is something else so after a committee meeting with me and the dogs it was voted unanimously to abandon this afternoons visit to Fly Flatts. In fact it was a struggle to even get the dogs to go out in the garden.
                                                     Vis mig over Foxhill this morning was reasonably quiet with a steady flow of Mipits >SW along with a few Swallows whilst 6 Alba Wagtails and 4 Chaffinch headed >W.

Meanwhile, to ease the doldrums heres a few of the special birds to visit Fly Flatts so far this year. :-

                                            Greenland Wheatear
                                     Drake Pintail in eclipse

                                             juv Ringed Plover
                                                          juv Ruff
                                          Regular visits of Ringed Plover
                                      Plenty Dunlin throughout
                                           Stonechat, a rare bird this year
                                      5 juv Shelduck
                                           Grey Plover
        12 Ringed Plovers present at one point.
                                        Distant juv Greenshank
                                                Peregrine
                                            Several Snipe
                                        drake Common Scoter
                                           Turnstone

      A good season for juv Common Sandpiper
                                         Marsh Harrier

  Remember Swifts ? now they,re gone.

          Another 4 drake Common Scoter followed by a single female
 A poor year for Grouse but fortunately no shoots yet this season
            juv Common Sandpiper, 18 adults present late spring
             Another rare sighting this year, Golden Plover
                                              Sanderling
 Remember little yellow Mallard, only saw him one day ?
                                 Around 8 pair of Curlews bred
               A second Sanderling visit
                                           Redshank
 Buzzard and Short Eared Owl battle for air supremacy

                                    5 Pair of breeding Reed Bunting
                                       A spring Cuckoo
                     Another scarce passerine this year, Whinchat
                                      Cherry on the cake, Red Kite

                         Along with Osprey in Spring.
                         Still waiting for an autumn bird.

                               A real rarity. Sandwich Tern

                                       Whooper Swan
                                           Shelduck
                                                    Raven

                                                         A visit from 8 Whooper Swans

And still over 3 months to go.
BS