An overcast morning with early rain showers and good visibility on a moderate W>5 then by late afternoon the sky had broken to 40% cloud cover with the dreaded sun blasting down making thing difficult with distant viewing of the shorelines just a blur with heat shimmer. Luckily the W>5 was still blowing keeping the temperature down but thats enough of the sun for this summer, lets get back to the grey stuff.
The good westerly had once again done the trick bringing a host of new waders into the area looking like an early dispersion may have started with my first Dunlins here since the 13th June with 5 present by the afternoon watch as well as 5 Oystercatchers, an uncommon bird for this site. The long staying Ringed Plover was still present along with 7 Common Sandpipers, 4 Redshank , 2 Curlew and 15 Lapwing with all these birds being around the SE ponds luckily, away from the distortion of the east and north bank where it was impossible to go through the 300+ gulls there, even from the NW corner with a mass of shimmer all along the shoreline.
A high expectancy for Common Scoter was shattered today when nothing appeared after having a female present on the 22nd/2017 and 4 males 19th/2018, 1female 20th/2018 .
Just the 1 female passing through early on the 4th 2019 but they will be appearing at a reservoir near you over the next 3 month.
BS