With the month of June and hot sunshine things can,t get any worse for reservoir watching.
Not too bad to start off with this morning on a SW>4 but the temp soon crept up to 20 degrees
and by late afternoon I was looking at 28 degrees, full sun and a multitude of heat distortion all over the shore with the wind turned SE>4 which kept some of the heat down.
A good start to the morning but could have turned out better if the two new arrivals had stayed. I had only just got out of the car and tackling up when the female Ringed Plover came flying into the pond area making a lot of noise and just as I got the bins on her, up flushed 2 Little Ringed Plover, spiraling very high and away >S.
Strange how she came from way across the far shoreline to see them off as her 2 juvs were over at the north end, but she obviously saw them as a threat.
Thats the first 2 LRPs at Fly Flatts this year, a species I,d almost given up on after having them visit last year from April to July.
After that it was all downhill with the only newcomer being a Heron trying to land on the north shore but seen off by Lapwings.
Fly Flatts
2 Ringed Plover + 2 chicks at 25 days old
2 Little Ringed Plover, spooked and off high >S
5 Common Sandpiper + 1 chick
2 Oyks
1 Heron
1 Redshank
+ usual sp
BS