Ravens in battle
Up in the mist over the turbines
Nice fall of Goldies
Good count of Wheatear
Jumping for joy
- Another morning of thick fog but luckily cleared by 0945 hrs leaving some drizzle on a very light SE>2 at 16 degrees. By late afternoon it was up to 20 degrees and sunny bringing out swarms of flies and midges making Peter the site manager up there remark, " Now I know why they call it 'Fly' flatts .
- Peering through the early morning fog I scoped 3 short billed Curlews which I hoped for Whimbrel but as the fog lifted they left >W and dashed my hopes with a Curlew call so obviously juveniles.
- Wheatears were everywhere with a count of 19 just in the SE corner area both morning and afternoon.
- As soon as the fog lifted Swallows and Meadow Pipits were on the move for about 1 hour whilst the YL gull was again with LBBs on the north shore.
- Late afternoon and a surprise waiting for me with 5 Golden Plover on the north shore and then a group of 42 came in low over the water to land on the south shore, a rare species this year at Fly Flatts.
- A good thunderstorm and lashings of rain this tea time at Queensbury which hopefully will have washed all the fog away with a forecast of rain on a light SE tomorrow which could prove interesting.
- VISIBLE MIGRATION
- 3 juv Curlew blogging then.......>W
- 47 Goldies blogging then.........>W
- 43 Swallow..............................>SW
- 32 Mipits.................................>SW
- 19 Wheatear......blogging
- 1 YL Herring gull...blogging
- PRESENT
- 10 LBB gulls
- + usual sp
- BS
