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Friday, July 26, 2019

Fly Flatts surprise, Islands appear.


                  Not only me waiting for waders. juv Peregrine.


                                    At the water hole
                         Silver ring on right leg.
                                    Barnacles using the new islands.
                                         2 of 4 wader tempting islands.
                                        Looking >NE. Water a good quarter down
                                  North shore water line
                                 Thats a lot of mud to scope.
                                     From the SW corner.
          About a week will see it dry which is alright if it
keeps raining to wet the mud. If the mud dries out  its
                                                          game over.
       The only wader today, Ringed Plover
The water line at the south end is now 100 yds from the track
instead of lapping your feet.

A much better day at Fly Flatts both early morning and late afternoon with 90 % cloud cover, 21 degrees and a cool SW>3-4.
                                            A very quiet day but a nice surprise this morning with 4 islands appeared out in the water looking good for waders and already being used by the geese.
                                           The juv Peregrine was slightly nearer today using the soyth shore and seen to be sporting a silver ring on its right leg. If anyone gets to scope the Dean Clough chimney birds we,ll know if its the same bird.
                                          A group of 11 Greylags flew in from over the Nab, 7 of these being this years birds bred here and only just started flying. Its amazing how quick they master it.
The east shore this morning only held the usual Canadas along with 2 LBB gulls and a single juv Herring with quiet skies.
                                   This afternoons watch found a Cormorant in the water but left after a couple of dives, discovering there are no fish in here. The only wader, which I found in the last minutes of the watch, was a single Ringed Plover on the south shore water line which is now a good 100yds away and moving further out daily.
BS