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A cold start to the day at 4 degrees rising to 7 late afternoon. A light SW>4 got up to SW>6 in the afternoon with rain showers and 100% cloud with good visibility.
First job of the morning was moving a 3 piece suite that some scumbag had dumped blocking the entrance gate. A stop off down the entrance track to scope 2 Wheatear on a distant wall which were a male and female Greenland, possible the birds I got from a few days back with an unmistakable plumage. The males brilliant plumage standing out and the female being a very dark brown bird.
A second pair of Wheatear were down near the feeding station but these were both northerns.
A single Oystercatcher was present whilst 3 flew >SW very high and direct.
Otherwise it was just down to the usual Common Sandpipers, Redshank and the usual pair of long staying Ringed Plovers which have been here since the 28th Feb. These 2 birds have gone through all the usual courtship rituals etc and looked like nesting several times, mainly through March, but now seem to have given up on the idea and just spend their time preening and feeding.
More rain and south westerlies forecast for tomorrow so hopefully the Oxon Turnstones will be getting near Fly Flatts by now.
Fly Flatts
3 Oyk...................>SW
1 Oyk present
2 Ringed Plover
5 Common Sandpiper
1 Redshank
1 pr Northern Wheatear
1 pr Greenland Wheatear
1 pr Tufted
+ usual sp.
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