Fly Flatts 0800 - 0930 hrs. Misty start with drizzle clearing briefly then thick fog and heavy rain by 0915 hrs.
Not the best of conditions with mist shrouding the west moor but the water remained clear for three parts of the watch. Another very quiet morning with just 3 BH gulls on and around the water whilst a low fly over of a Heron was a surprise, a bird I only get up there in spring in the frog spawning season.
The wet mud on the east shore was hard to scan, reflecting like a mirror, so it was only by chance I picked out a Dunlin near the waters edge . After a few distant photos I was walking back towards the south shore when the Dunlin plus a second bird flew past me low over the water, both being adults in winter plumage, heading for the south end.
By the time I got back on there the fog was rolling in and the rain getting heavier just giving me time to re located the Dunlins out on the SE corner but well out of camera range. Thoughts of going into the boatyardto get a better vantage point were quashed when the fog put the lights out so it was another early bath and head for home.
BS