A decent start to the morning weather wise with haze and damp air on a light ESE>2 at 17 degrees.
By mid watch the hazy sun appeared and by late afternoon it was back to full sun and 26 degrees.
Only waders present at the moment are the 2 Ringed Plovers and the last remaining Common Sandpiper with its juv waiting for it to fledge before they can leave. A single Curlew that arrived on the east ridge a couple of days back is still present and very vocal.
Still Black Headed gulls over and on the water along with a handful of LBBs whilst a Merlin was on the Robin rock on Mipit watch.
Canada geese arrive mid morning from Cold Edge bringing the total Canada population at the moment to over 500 geese.
The highlight of the day was 2 juvenile Cormorants on the peninsular showing the different amount of white, birds of this age can show. One of the 2 was particularly brown plumaged. Cormorants are very rare visitors to this fish less reservoir due to the water being very brown from the peat.
A text this morning that a Black Tailed Godwit was at TMR briefly before leaving >W.
The Blackwit at Fly Flatts this weekend was my 134th species seen at this site over the years.
Good to see Comp (HC) over from Haworth today doing a check of the Dailie Fields.
Fly Flatts
2 Ringed Plover
1 Common Sand + juv
1 Curlew
2 juv Cormorant
1 f Merlin
9 LBB gull
6 BH gull
+ usual sp.
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