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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Fly Flatts/Mixenden Reservoir.

 

FLY FLATTS                                             7 Wheatear present

                                                        A good count of Common Sandpipers


                                               1 pr Ringed Plover


                                               A good breeding season for Curlew


MIXENDEN                           1 Common Sandpiper

                                                  1 Redshank
                                              doing a circuit of the water
                                             several House Martins




An icy morning at Fly Flatts with the lagoon frozen over. A cold NW>4 was blowing at 1 degree
but clear skies and full sun.
                                   A walk of the west bank produced 11 Common Sandpipers plus the usual waders along with a single Dunlin across on the east bank.
Very quiet skies with only a single LBB gull over and no gulls on the banking. Linnets are now becoming more popular.
                            Mixenden late afternoon was completely dead for the first 30 minutes apart from 1 Gt Crested Grebe but a walk around the perimeter found a single Common Sandpiper and a Redshank.
                           A wave of hirundines started coming through with firstly Swallows and then several House Martins plus 2 Sand Martins all feeding over the water and banking slowly making their way >N.

Fly Flatts
11 Common Sandpiper
2 Ringed Plover
3 Redshank
2 Oyks
1 Dunlin
15 Linnet
7 Wheatear
1 LBB gull

Mixenden
1 Redshank
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Gt Crested Grebe
1 Jay
1 Herring gull, ad
2 Sand Martin
sev House Martin
sev Swallow
BS