just inside the top gate.
Another bright and dry day at Fly Flatts with the wind SE>4 as yesterday at minus 1 degrees this morning freezing all the SE ponds.
An early morning wake up as I turned into the track with a male Ring Ouzel right in front of me along with two more males a bit further down the track.
A quick check of the boatyard found the other 2 still in the same area so a dash back up the track to find the 3 still there. Not a bad start to the day with 5 male Ring Ouzels.
I think the 3 at the top of the track were probably flushed from the Slade area where the moss planters were walking down over the Flat Moor, and the birds had gone by mid morning.
A walk on to the NE corner produced 2 Ringed Plover and 3 Redshank along with several Lapwings on the shoreline. A Buzzard and a Peregrine were high over the moor whilst a pair of Blackbirds and a pair of Pied Wags were in the boatyard looking ready for nesting.
Late afternoon was a bit less hectic with just the usual 2 Ring Ouzels in the boatyard and only 1 Ringed Plover could be found but with such an area to cover it could quiet easily have been missed.
A single Herring gull was on the shoreline whilst a Reed Bunting was in the reeds.
Good to see that MB got a Ring Ouzel in the boatyard watching from the top road and thanks to DW for reporting 2 Redshank on the Raggalds Flood.
I hope this threatened lock down doesnt come just as things are getting going up at Fly otherwise I,ll have to go up there disguised as a sheep.
Fly Flatts
5 Ring Ouzel , yes 5, not a misprint
2 Ringed Plover
3 Redshank
1 Reed Bunting
1 Herring gull
1 Buzzard
1 Peregrine
1 pr Blackbird
1 pr Pied Wagtail.
+ usual sp.
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