below the ridge.
After negotiations and a compromise with the Fly Flatts saga my revised method will have to be, risk parking the car on the top road and walk the dogs down the northern public right of way track to the NW corner of the water . From here I can check the ponds, the water , the northern part of the east bank as well as scan below the west bank as far as the feeding station, which will now have to be re sited.
I can then take the car down the sailing club track to my usual parking spot from where I do my usual sky watching. The dogs will have to remain in the back of the car, which they do now happily after having a good walk, and I will have to don my Hi Vis vest reluctantly although it will be no problem for sky watching, unless the Ospreys see it and start to turn back.
From this position I can also watch the south shore and water and if need be we can walk through the boat yard to check the southern end of the east bank so really I,m only losing the feeding area and three quarters of the west bank.
When work starts , the northern path is to be closed but I,ll work around that when the time comes. The beauty of the high vis vest is when Im stood near the edge of the water and the boats are out in the fog I will act as a lighthouse to them so they know where the rocks are.
Misty milky skies today so nothing in fly overs but interesting to get a flock of big gulls coming in and landing on the north shore before eventually leaving >NE. There were 14 Herring and 4 LBBs, otherwise just the usual species and still no Common Sandpiper but going by previous years records any day now as they usually arrive on the 16th, 17th or 18th.
BS