Another very wet and misty morning at Fly Flatts with heavy drizzle turning to rain with a low cloud base and scud clouds moving over making visibility poor. A light W>3 increased to W>4 by late afternoon with a morning temperature of 12 degrees.
The morning saw a good move of LBB and BH gulls through >NE but more likely to be moving from a roost to the fields rather than movers.
A walk on the west bank just produced 4 Kestrel and a juv Merlin but too wet and misty to scope the east shore.
The afternoon was clear with some blue sky which brought all 3 Hirundine species through as well as a good count of Swift all >S, whilst a scope of the east shore from the west bank produced a single Dunlin, 1 Oystercatcher and a Ringed Plover.
The water is slowly swallowing up all the shore now with very little remaining, much more heavy rain and it will be gone.
Fly Flatts
juv Merlin
2 ad, 2 juv Kestrel
1 Oyk
1 Dunlin
71 LBB gull...............>NE
46 BH gull..........>NE
c 150 Swift.........>S
c 100 Swallow....>S
14 House Martin..>S
2 Sand Martin......>S
BS