As good as it got at Fly Flatts a.m.
Ogden sub adult Lesser Black Backed
Still showing some brown primaries and tertials
1st year Black Headed
Deformed bill
Adult Black Headed
Juv Lesser Black Backed.
Cormorant off to roost
LBB
This LBB, left, was dark enough for Intermedius.
Moulting LBB, missing primaries.
1st year Black Headed
- Another abandonment at Fly Flatts this morning with dense fog and drizzle on a W>3 at 15 degrees . I hoped for the fog lifting by the time I,d walked the dogs but at 0930 hrs it was ,if anything, getting thicker so another early finish and no vis mig.
- Late afternoon and I could see from home that the cloud base was still low over the ridge at Fly Flatts so once again headed for Ogden for a gull watching session.
- An improvement on yesterday with more gulls to sift through though no Herrings today and very few Commons. There were 14 LBBs present with 7 adult,or near adult, the rest being juvs whilst one of the adult birds was very dark showing signs of Intermedius.
- Around 40 Black Headeds with a mix of adults and first year birds but none retaining their black summer hood and none that I could check being ringed.
- Just the 2 adult Gt Crested Grebe were on the water with the juv moved on whilst a single Cormorant was on the depth gauge.
- A happy story to finish with, yesterdays lost Parakeet was re united with its owner today. The bird escaped from its home at Bolton 5 days ago to end up in Queensbury and a delighted owner, who thought he would never see the bird again, collected it today. On a moving video I was sent the bird seemed as pleased to be re united as the owner was.
- Surely its got to be a fog free morning tomorrow ???
- BS
