With another late afternoon visit in a strong SW>5, low cloud base and drizzle across the moor Fly Flatts once again failed to provide producing 2 Buzzard mobbed by 1 Crow and 1 Raven across on Tatty Pie Hill whilst a lonely LBB gull was on the shoreline wondering where all the birds had gone.
Some good Pink Footed Goose reports from around our area this morning, all from Calderdale via the Hx grapevine apart from the one report text in from Peter Turner from the Shelf Moor area with a skein heading for Queensbury but not picked up by me.
I,ve yet to get an autumn sighting.
With yet another disappointing report from Fly Flatts today I looked back at October 2017 where things were quietish the first part of the month then 3 megas in the second 2 weeks :-
1st mega for Fly Flatts 16/10/2017. 1st winter Caspian Gull.
This species was a first for Calderdale.
2nd mega for Fly Flatts 18/10/2017 Great White Egret.
This species was also a first for Calderdale.
3rd mega for Fly Flatts, 27/10/2017. Ring Ouzel.
Not classed as rare but a low reported passage migrant.
Still getting Dunlin at Fly Flatts, end of October
into November. 2017.
So not to be disheartened , anything can be around the corner.
BS
