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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Some Fly Flatts specials from August 2019.

 With the heat full on today and only a steady E>3 Fly Flatts was ,as expected, extremely poor. Early mist soon lifted but the sky to the west was very hazy and milky, cutting visibility.                                                                                                                     Pick of the crop was an Intermediate Lesser Black Backed gull plus a quick visit from the 3rd year Yellow Legged Herring which landed then immediately took off towards TMR.                                                                                                                                                      Swallows and House Martins were the only moving birds with no waders and no Wheatear today.                                   If this weather doesnt break soon its going to be a poor  species list of returning waders for Fly Flatts with only about 4 weeks left of the peak season.                                          I,ve put together a few of the specials that appeared at Fly Flatts in August 2019 which I,m hoping will turn up in the next few weeks :-

                        Black Redstart was present throughout August.

                                Several Ringed Plover passed through

                                   Sparrowhawk on Wheatear watch
             Willow Warblers in the lagoon tree

                                             Several Oystercatchers
                                            1 of 2 Greenshank

                 juv Turnstone flyover + one on the shore 2 days after

                                         Plenty Common Sandpiper                                                                                       
                                  Sanderling                                                          

                                        juv Ringed Plover                                                                    
                        Distant Green sandpiper                                                                                                                                                                  

Visible Migration                           Snipe in the ponds.

39 Swallow.............>S                                                                                                                                    19 House Martin....>S

Present                                                                                                                                                            16 LBB gull                                                                                                                                                    1 YL Herring gull                                                                                                                                           1 LBB gull   intermedius                                                                                                                                 + usual sp                                                                                                                                                      BS

PS...This new blog is a nightmare which seems to put your typing in any shape and form. Hence the diagonal list???