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Monday, December 2, 2019

Fly Flatts and back to the fog.

  These shorelines are bound to pick something up eventually

        Pebble beaches, sandy shores and mudflats


    And still enough water to take wildfowl.


Fly Flatts this morning was in what seemed to be ideal conditions with 60% cloud cover on a W>4 at 0 degrees and good visibility but unlike yesterday morning things were quiet.
                                                        No continuation of the Herring gull move which was on a very broad front after I had a count of over 500 but the big groups were far out to the west coming from the Greater Manchester area where SJ had a count of 1721 over his watch point at Bury, Gt Manchester.
                   No gull of any kind this morning and just 6 Fieldfare over as well as the usual Stonechats, but only 2 present today, along with 3 Reed Bunting.
                  The Peregrine made a quick fly past and 2 Kestrels were over the quarry.
By late afternoon a massive fog bank was hanging over the western ridge giving me just enough time to walk on to the NE corner and check out that end of the shore which I have had to neglect, first with the fog and then ice on the sloping cobbled bank .
By the time I got back to the boatyard I could hardly see the dogs on the end of the leads it was so dense but looking back from Queensbury when I got home I could see the wind turbines in clear sky again. Hopefully it won,t return for the morning when I,ve got a meeting with 5 Snow Buntings and a Shorelark, you,ve got to think positive !!
BS