A bright clear day at Fly Flatts with 40 % cloud cover and good visibility just spoilt with heat distortion and a moderate SW>5 making scoping possible but difficult by either keeping the tripod legs down or crouching below the banking out of the wind.
Another entertaining day but nothing new in and 1 Ringed Plover and Little Ringed Plover moved on leaving just a single Ringed Plover along with 18 Dunlin plus the usual Common Sandpipers and Redshanks.
With the same birds late afternoon I concentrated on the gulls with just 33 on the NE shore, 9 of which were adult Lesser Black Backed , the remaining 24 being Herring gulls at various stages from 1st year birds up to 4th year sub adults but no adult birds, no Yellow Legged and certainly no Caspians.
The last 15 minutes sky watching, which I have neglected lately with wader watching, produced 2 Buzzard, 3 Raven and a distant Cuckoo over the wind farm.
BS