A slightly better morning at Fly Flatts though poor visibility above with mist over the moor and low cloud base. A light W>3 was a bonus at 5 degrees.
Around 30 Golden Plover were back on the Flat Moor hopefully staying longer this year after being flushed, not to return, last year by the Sphagnum moss planters.
Herring gulls started to head over >SW but the count was lost when the cloud base dropped even further down whilst the first 2 Oystercatchers were spotted across on the far east bank with their heads down and staying the same throughout.
A single male Pied Wagtail was back in the boatyard and 4 Curlew were present near the turbines.
A quick look on Soil Hill in the early arrival Wheatear hot spots came up with nothing, as expected, as well as a check on the Shelf Moor Wheatear field in hopes of my first ever February bird.
Struggling without the camera and no one wants to know about repairs during lock down, and the ones that are still operational refuse to be pinned down to a time it will be away.
Fly Flatts
1 m Pied Wagtail
c 30 Golden Plover
19 Herring gull.............>SW
2 Oyks
4 Curlew
+ usual sp.
Soil Hill
4 Curlew
3 Skylark
BS