A dark day throughout up here in the Gods and by 1500 hrs Fly Flatts was once again wiped off the map with low cloud and horizontal drizzle so, more to get the dogs out than anything, a reluctant visit to Ogden with only about 30 minutes of daylight remaining with heavy drizzle and a moderate SW>6.
Around 50 small gulls were on the water,75 % Black Headed, the rest Commons along with the usual Mallards. A Sparrowhawk was harassing the Goldfinch roost and that was it.
To brush away my November blues I looked back at a few of Fly Flatts highlights I was rewarded with over the spring and summer of this year :-
Distant Osprey over the wind farm
Sandwich Tern
Plenty Common Sandpipers
Whinchat
Shrimps eye view of Common Sandpiper
Red Kite
Lots of Ringed Plovers
Tons on Dunlin
Noisy Redshanks
Cuckoo
Breeding Snipe
Snipe chick
Sanderling
Golden Plover
Common Scoters
Cream Crown Marsh Harrier
Turnstone
5 juv Shelduck
Merlin
Distant Grey Plover
Distant Ruff
Barn Owl
Greenshank way across on the east banking
Peregrine on wader watch.
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