A morning of showers on a W>4 followed by a late afternoon of blue skies and sunshine on a fresh
W>6 blowing white horses across the water and making scoping very wobbly whilst the dreaded heat made gull photos unpublishable due to excessive shimmer off the mud and water.
Swifts were feeding over the water from early morning through to the afternoon watch with over 50 birds present at one go.
Waders were poor with the usual Common Sands and Redshank and back to just the single Ringed Plover which has obviously seen off yesterdays new arrival.
Only 51 big gulls were present early morn although these built up to just over 200 in the afternoon but a walk on to check them out failed to produce any specials finding them to be mostly LBBs with only around 30 Herrings, these all being sub adults at various stages. A single Black Headed looked out of place among them.
Raptor wise, 3 Kestrels were up hovering, a distant Buzzard was showing signs of moult with a tail feather missing and a female Merlin powered through making a half hearted attempt at the Swifts.
Longest day tomorrow ( Summer Solstice) so they,ll be a pilgrimage up to the Sacrifice Stones on The Nab and then the evenings will slowly be going tuther road.
BS