A very wet afternoon at Fly Flatts with dark clouds on a SE>4 and heavy rain throughout making it feel like the Fly Flatts I,m used to and what seemed like ideal conditions for something special passing over but this never happened.
A check at the NE corner just produced 1 Herring gull and several Canadas though scoping was difficult in the heavy rain. Its going to be hard work this year finding single waders with acres of mud , several hidden areas with gulleys and hollows , plus the shoreline is now a scope- able distance away.
Luckily today all the activity was near the SE corner where the ponds are filling up nicely with todays rain. A Common Sandpiper was down the entrance track with 2 more in the boat compound and a further 2 on the south shore.
Dunlins and Ringed Plover were around the ponds whilst 2 Curlew and 3 Redshank were on the island. The waders love the rain and were all out probing the mud whereas when its dry and warm they seldom move, squat down with their heads in their wings.
A check on the Nolstar Dotterel field produced 22 Golden Plover which is encouraging for visiting Dotterel over the next couple of weeks.
Fly Flatts
4 Ringed Plover
11 Dunlin
3 Redshank
4 Common Sandpiper
2 Curlew
2 Greylag
Nolstar
22 Golden Plover
Stay safe, B.S.