Yes! its fog again..A look back at this years Fly Flatts Dunlins.

Dense fog yet again throughout the day up on the tops blanking out Queensbury and Fly Flatts.
                                                       This morning was a dog walk at Ogden in the pouring rain but just below the cloud base. Just the usual few gulls and Mallards here.
                                                     Late afternoon was another dog walk, this time to Mixenden reservoir, with a half hearted check of the water in the mist and dark skies where there was just the usual small gulls, around 100, plus 5 Herrings along with a single Moorhen, 2 Cormorants and a pair of Goldeneye.

Not to be down hearted by the run of bad weather, which isnt over yet, heres a capful of  Fly Flatts Dunlins from this spring and summer showing that there really is ,or was, birds out there.
                                                        Dunlins started to arrive at the end of April with 11 present on the 1st of May. This count built up steady through May peaking on the 29th with a record number of 48 present for several days. The last Dunlin on the shore up there was seen mid August and the last bird was October with a single fly over. An amazing year for this species.

                           Most birds were in full breeding plumage.

                The last August bird in non breeding plumage.

  This birder waited in vain for autumn birds returning
                                       which never happened.
BS