Afternoon Pinks, Fly Flatts, (no public access)

                                    Big bird heading >S. Hercules.

                                  Plenty Mallards present

                                            24 Golden plover on the far NW shore

                                         2 skeins of Pinkies late afternoon >W

            2nd skein way over the western ridge

 These geese would have been able to see the west coast from their position.

                  Gulls building up on the north shore .

Another bright blue sky day and again very quiet in the morning but livening up for the late afternoon watch . Frozen ponds again this morning at 3 degrees rising to 9 degrees in the afternoon on an ENE>3.
             Starlings were the bird of the day with several squadrons over in the morning and continuing through the afternoon watch with just one flock of Fieldfare very low over the moor skimming the heather.
            An unusual time for Pink Footed Geese to be moving with 2 skeins over within a few minutes of one another at 1500 hrs. We seem to just be getting the dregs now with the big skeins gone.
        Otherwise it was just bits and bats with gulls coming in to the north shore again as the light faded.

Vis Mig
311 Starling............................>NW
32 Fieldfare...........................>NW
17 Lapwing...........................>NW
2 Herring gull.......................>W
74 Pinkies.............................>W       2 skeins   41, 33.

Present
42 Mallard
3 Mipits
6 BH gull
13 Herring gull
22 LBB gull
24 Golden Plover.
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