A very wet and windy start to the morning with a cold NW>5 with heavy drizzle showers improving as the watch went on. By late afternoon the wind had turned and increased to W>6 with black clouds and patchy sunshine at 15 degrees.
Some signs of migration today when 2 adult male Ringed Plovers dropped in from the south flying low over the water and landing way over on the north shore. The 2 birds darted about, rapidly feeding for 15 minutes before taking off and leaving >NE.
A single Oystercatcher in the NE corner also took off >NE mid morning whilst Swifts were again on the move >S coinciding with counts of 10,000 and 20,000 over Spurn over the last few days.
There seems to be just one pair of Curlew left in the fields which will probably still have an unfledged juv , the area seems quiet now with no Curlew calls whilst the Redshanks and Lapwings have now all gone with Common Sandpipers being the only summer resident waders left.
A good count of Canada geese with 388 on the water today including juvs which, though unfledged , are hard to tell apart from the adults.
I spoke to Sue from the boating club today who was pretty sure she had an Osprey over the water last week when she was doing some work up there.
Fly Flatts
8 Common Sandpiper
388 Canada geese
2 Barnacle geese
4 Kestrel
1 f Merlin
2 Snipe
+ usual sp.
Visible Migration
c 150 Swifts.................>S
2 ad male Ringed Plover.....>NE
1 Oystercatcher...................>NE
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