1500 hrs and poor conditions at Fly Flatts with blue sky and sunshine and only 20 % cloud cover on yet again another blasting near gale force W> 7 at 34.4 mph.
A walk to the NW corner of the west bank produced 2 Carrion crow and 3 Kestrels with empty water, shoreline and water. Not another bird was seen until 15 minutes from the end of the watch as I got back to the car. When I was ready to leave dark clouds rolled across the moor from the west and within minutes 100% cloud cover was achieved with light drizzle and a drop in wind. This in turn immediately livened thing up and I got more birds in that last 15 minutes than the whole of the watch.
Two Buzzard were up 1 to the west and 1 to the east with one being mobbed with a Sparrowhawk and the other a Kestrel.
Lesser Black Backed gulls started to move over >SW with around 40 counted whilst 3 Stonechat appeared near the lagoon, at distance and very flighty.
Several reports this morning of Pink Footed geese on the move both east and west whilst a mega sighting this morning by HC and DCB at their Oxenhope watch point of a Red Throated Diver passing the Fly Flatts area, see link to Trektellen for their full report . More sunshine tomorrow but less wind so we,ll see what I can conjure up then. See you tomorrow.
BS