Dense fog to start the day clearing by 0930 hrs leaving a day of hazy sunshine but a nice SE>2 increasing 3 and temp rising from 7 to 17 degrees.
With the fog thick to start with it was a matter of walking the bankings checking the shoreline for anything new. This produced 9 Common Sandpipers along the west bank , some very fidgety usually pointing to new arrivals. The usual waders were also around the waters edge with 2 noisy Snipe in the top fields.
As the fog cleared I was scanning the water at the north end from the boatyard when 3 small waders flew from the NE bank across the water until I lost them in the NW corner. With no time to get the scope on them I followed them with the bins and would say 90% Sanderling going by the jizz plus a white wing bar and black trailing edge to the wings.
Late afternoon I headed straight for the NW corner and scoped all the bankings but unable to re locate them so they will have to go down as 'Cud av bins'. A bonus on the walk back to the compound with 5 Dunlin scattered along the south bank.
So despite the hot stuff, a decent day saved with the SE wind and another easterly for tomorrow.
Fly Flatts
2 Ringed Plover
5 Dunlin
9 Common Sandpiper
1 Redshank
3 Oystercatchers
3 Snipe
4 Golden Plover
4 Herring gull............>SE
+ usual sp.
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