The RH is sub adult whilst the LH looks adult but retained
pink legs as some LBBs do.
Another decent reservoir day with rain and drizzle a.m. with a low cloud base on a light W>2 at
7 degrees rising to 11 degrees p.m. with an increased W>4 and torrential rain showers.
A few good soakings today but once again the place was alive and being in the reservoir basin was like being out on an estuary with waders whizzing round. The mud is already starting to soften with the rain and soon it will be back to its normal state like quicksand and impossible to walk on.
No newcomers this morning whilst late afternoon found 9 Greylags drop in during a particularly heavy shower settling on the west shoreline, not a common visitor here. A cuckoo was calling down the valley towards Dean Head reservoir whilst around 100 Swift were feeding and slowly drifting >SW high above the reservoir looking like a feeding party moving between the showers.
Fly Flatts
1 pr Ringed Plover + 2 chicks
7 Dunlin
5 Redshank
1 Oyk
12 Common Sandpipers
2 Snipe
3m 1f Pied Wagtail
c 150 Herring/ LBB gull
3 BH gull
9 Greylag
c 100 Swift
Cuckoo calling.
Stay safe, BS