A milder day today with the wind shifted round to W>3 then NW>4 with a start off temp of 3 degrees getting up to 10 degrees by midday. Around 50% cloud with sunshine causing plenty heat shimmer.
About the same as yesterday with a slight increase in Dunlin and Swifts being the bird of the day with around 100 counted >N with this figure including over 40 birds over Mixenden reservoir as I passed late morning.
Plenty gulls today with around 70 mixed LBB and Herring , 70 % being LBBs and most birds being non breeding sub adults.
Two Wheatear are still present in the top field by the entrance track but very flighty and non photogenic. A huge drop in Canadas this year with around 20 pair and so far only 15 goslings up to last years count of over 400 birds including goslings. Possibly due to the low water level.
The 6 Greylag goslings are growing well whilst several Lapwing chicks are dashing around the mud and ponds.
Bentleys have found another problem in the reservoir basin which YW has asked them to repair. This means some more water pumping out and more excavations extending the work by another month or so with the water not starting to go in till around the end of June taking a good month to fill if there is a good amount of rainfall so it looks like there will be some decent shoreline well into the autumn.
Fly Flatts
2 Snipe
16 Dunlin
2 Ringed Plover
12 Common Sandpiper
2 Oystercatchers
4 Redshank
2 pr Greylag
c 70 Big gulls
2 Wheatear
c 60 Swifts.........>N plus c 40 over Mixenden reservoir.
Stay safe, BS