Fly Flatts and Black Redstart search.

                                   Curlew left the east shore to go >W.

                                          Few juv Black Headed gulls about.

                                          Distant Ringed Plover with BHG.

                                                   R.P.

                                       Teal on the east banking

  2 Barnacles spent the day on the mud.

                                           Juv BHG

                                             and adult.

                Around 150 post breed Starlings near the Withins.

                                Goldfinch on the Black Redstarts favourite wall

   and Blackbird, still feeding young

                                           6 Teal on the east shore

  Acres of mud. The north and east shore are now as one
 with no water up at the top end.

                                         Oh no, its here again. Peregrine

                                   On its way to attack the Teal.

 Another victim. This van was parked at Nolstar.

A foggy start at Fly Flatts but cleared by 0900 hrs to be bright but cloudy with a SW>4 after a night of heavy thunderstorms getting me up half the night calming the dogs down.
The afternoon was back to the dreaded hot and sticky but still with a welcome SW>3.
                                                                  A busy east shoreline this morning with no signs of the Peregrine. A Ringed Plover was on the waters edge but at distance along with a Curlew but this soon left, calling and flying >W. 6 Teal were working their way along the shoreline whilst 8 juv Black Headed gulls and 3 adults were present.
                                                              The afternoon visit found the Teal out on the water and the Peregrine back on the mud before flying over the water and making a half hearted attempt at diving at the Teal which all ducked underwater avoiding capture. Otherwise the hot sunshine put everything into sleep mode.
                         A mid morning check on the Withins Black Redstart site failed to turn up the bird with just 1 Dunnock present along with a Robin and Blackbird both feeding young. The Robin, I suspect to be the culprit for moving on the Black Red as yesterday it was very aggressive towards it.
                     A charm of around 40 Goldfinch were mobile, as were about 150 Starlings, mainly juvs, whilst a Whitethroat was in brambles part way back up the track.
                     A scope of the Slade Black Red hot spot area on the way past this p.m. gave no results.
The rest of the hot spot areas were checked by DJS and Jen.
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