Another clear morning with a S>4 at 6 degrees and light showers. Late afternoon produced some of the heaviest rain and sleet showers that I have seen for a long time. At one point you couldnt see to the other side of the track after the skies went black and the rain lashed down in stair rods.
Chances of any special waders at Fly Flatts this season looks very grim with the water now back up to the overflow covering all the shore other than a small corner at the SW.
Common Sandpipers and Ringed Plovers seem happy with the cobbled banking but the Dunlins moved straight on.
Just 6 Herring gulls on the water this morning with nothing but the usual in the sky. A Snipe flushed from the south bank and landed over Fill Belly Flat.
A late afternoon check on the shoreline at Leeshaw found plenty shore with 5 Dunlin and the usual waders but all very distant on the north shore.
At least 2 Cuckoo were calling up by the farm but only giving distant views as they got moved around the fields by Lapwing and Curlew.
A few Herring and LBB gull passed through >W but still awaiting a Tern.
Fly Flatts
10 Common Sandpiper
2 Ringed Plover
3 Oyk
2 Redshank
6 Herring gull
2 LBB gull
5 Wheatear
1 Snipe
2 Lapwing chicks
+ usual sp.
Leeshaw
5 Dunlin
2 Redshank
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Cuckoo
1 BH gull
5 LBB gull
12 Herring gull
Sev Swallows
+ usual sp.
BS