Not the best of conditions today for this site with a very light N>1 this morning on full cloud at 8 degrees. By late aftrenoon the light breeze had turned E>3 with full cloud and light rain throughout.
A good start to the morning with a Skylark down the entrance track, a very rare species here and only the second sighting this year.
Down at the water more rare visitors were a Gt Crested Grebe along with 2 Black Headed gulls and a pair of Tufted duck, all these first 4 species being irregular visitors to Fly Flatts.
Yesterdays Dunlin was still present along with the usual waders whilst several Swallows were trawling the water enjoying the abundence of flies, which I certainly was not.
A few gulls were overhead but missing out on gull numbers this year with no shore for them to land on at their favourite NE corner.
An interesting report today from a birding couple I spoke to who had seen a pair of Dotterel by the trig point on Bare Clough Hill up on Fly Flatts western ridge a couple of weeks back. The birds were in with Golden Plovers in an area of bare patches in the heather.
Fly Flatts
3 Oyk
2 Ringed Plover
1 Dunlin
1 Snipe
6 Common Sandpiper
1 Redshank
1 Gt Crested Grebe
1 pr Tufted duck
1 Skylark
3 m Reed Bunting
1 pr Pied Wagtail
1 m Nth Wheatear
1 m Greenland Wheatear
2 BH gull
10 LBB gull..........................>SE
2 Herring gull......................>NE
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