A quiet morning so took my turn to swab the decks by clearing all the mounds of
Canada goose poo off the jetty.
Once again the early morning fog soon burnt off leaving me with a day of the dreaded hot stuff with temp rising from 11 to 19 degrees, even higher in Brighouse town centre over midday. The only positive feature was a SE>3 over the water which made things more pleasant and gave a better chance of something moving.
Once again, as expected, the area was stagnated with very little movement and nothing in the sky. On the afternoon visit 2 Dunlin flushed from the water side and landed together on the moor making me suspect possible breeding.
No Wheatears to be found now dashing my hopes of a June bird, of which I,ve only ever had one in June, that being a very young juvenile which was possibly bred in the area. This was 2 years back and the only June record for me at this sight though I start getting return birds early July.
A check on the Nolstar fields found the post breeding Starling flock is now up to around 150.
Fly Flatts
2 Ringed Plover
4 Common Sandpiper
2 Dunlin
1 Redshank
3m Reed Bunting
4 Golden Plover
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