Another of those hot sticky days with the temperature already up at 12 degrees and full heat shimmer by 0800 hrs. A very light SE>2 didnt help the situation.
With high water and no muddy shore for probing most of the Common Sandpipers have moved to the northern end of the water feeding around the ponds on the moor. The 2 Ringed Plovers seem happy feeding on the west banking and along the east bank cobbles as well as the Redshank. The water is creeping down slowly but by the time any mud is exposed it will be too late for the spring migrant waders.
A single Gt Crested Grebe was back on the water which is probably one of the 3 doing the rounds between Ogden and Mixenden.
No big move of gulls today with just 5 Herring over >NE.
No afternoon session again in the conditions but hopefully, if the forecast is correct, a promise of rain tomorrow afternoon which is badly needed to liven things up, not to mention fill my water butt up so I dont have to go through the meter watering the garden.
Fly Flatts
2 Ringed Plover
2 Common Sandpiper
7 Herring gull...............>NE
1 ad Gt Crested Grebe
Large Starling flocks
+ usual sp.
BS