A better day with full cloud and a cool NW>4 at 4 degrees at Fly Flatts with good visibility.
Ringed Plovers are now up to 6 with 4 males and 2 females using both the west and east banks as well as 2 that were by my car in the boat compound as I returned from walking the west bank.
A few passerines today with Reed Buntings, Stonechat, Pied Wagtail and Blackbird, the latter probably returned to nest which it does each year. A flock of 17 Crows were in the area which is unusual but probably getting psyched up ready for the Lapwing and geese eggs and chicks appearing.
Only other waders were 2 Oystercatchers along with the Curlews.
Plenty disturbance this morning with the return of the sphagnum moss brigade with the helicopter dropping bags onto the moor and flushing everything in sight. It seems strange that they do this each year just on the start of the breeding season. Last year they flushed the whole of the Golden Plover breeding colony off ,not to return.
Fly Flatts
4 Greylag
2 Barnacle
sev Canadas
1 Stonechat
1 pr Pied Wagtail
2 Reed Bunting
1 Blackbird
3 Herring gull...............>SE
17 Carrion Crow
2 Oyks
6 Ringed Plover
2 Barnacle geese
+ usual sp.
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