Another hot one at Fly Flatts starting off at 15 degrees this morning then working up to 21 degrees by late afternoon but made workable with a stiff E>4 blowing well and keeping the temperature down.
I,ve been watching the Ringed Plovers for the last few weeks with a very active male throughout showing all the signs of breeding whilst females have come and gone, or so I thought, until they surprised me today producing 2 chicks on the shoreline which was part expected by both Kim, last week , and myself, but it still came as a surprise.
Nothing new on the wader front whilst a single male Tufted was on the water and the top fields were black with Rooks, Crows, Jackdaws and Starlings with about 200 of the latter, mostly juvs, as were several of the corvids.
The afternoon was grizzly with the heat turned up full so a walk on the west bank was in order to get the full force of the cooling east wind. The peninsular was heaving with around 250 Herring/Lesser Black Backed as well as a single Black Headed but a good scoping, along the hot wobbly shimmering mud found all the yellow and pink legs in the right places. There,s bound to be a Yellow Legged Herring on shortly though July is the peak month.
Fly Flatts
1pr Ringed Plover + 2 chicks
4 Redshank
1 Oystercatcher
4 Dunlin
3 Snipe
5 Golden Plover
6 Common Sandpiper
1 m Tufted duck
c 250 Herring/ LBB gull
1 BH gull
c 200 Starling
sev Rooks, Crows and Jackdaws, mainly juvs
Stay safe, B.S.