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Friday, March 1, 2019

March visit to Fly Flatts, pm

                                  Mega distant Short Eared Owl

 A rare visitor, Heron. Frogs must be coming to the moor now to spawn

            Lapwings across on the east banking
                                              SEO hunting
            2 Oystercatchers on the floating jetty
If anyones looking in from the boating club you,d better get
the jet wash going, Canadas are using it now.

The first visit of March late afternoon in murky but birdable conditions with a light S>3. Plenty activity giving a good start to the month though everything today was very distant.
                                                      Most of the action was way across in the NE corner with a SEO quartering the fields as well as 65 Lapwing along the shoreline whilst the unusual sight of a single Heron on the east banking meant that frogs are coming in to spawn as this is the only time I get Herons on the moor. A couple I met up there told me there is already plenty frog spawn at Cold Edge Dams, lets hope it doesnt freeze.
                                                  Scanning over the west moor a Buzzard flew low over the heather whilst a Merlin perched on a shooting butt briefly before skimming off across the moor.
Back at the south shore sky watching, as best I could in the conditions, 8 Golden Plover flew over towards the flat moor and 2 Oystercatchers came in to land on the floating jetty.
                                                 Not a bad start to the month and with rain and strong winds forecast for the weekend we should get some newcomers.
BS