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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Things are looking up at Fly Flatts.

 

                                          The Nab in good weather conditions
                                                     The West bank below bright clear skies.
                                      Looking across to the boatyard.
                                          A distant Stoodley Pike.
        Had to stop this fellow landing on the water so he did,nt flush the Canada goose.
                                     Here comes the icing on the cake, Red Kite.
                                     1st winter bird, shallow forked tail and pale underside.
   Never got to see the tops of the wings for white tipped coverts as per 1st winter bird.
                                          Mixenden , 2 Ring Necked Parakeets.

A glorious morning at Fly Flatts with 100% blue sky and sunshine at an icy cold minus 2 degrees on a biting N>3. All the puddles frozen solid and frost on the grass but no ice on the lagoon and reservoir.
                                                     I know I said I was going to put Fly Flatts on a back burner for a while but with Whoopers on the move I thought it was worth a check and a change from scoping through hundreds of gulls.
                          Very little about but more than my last visit ,with signs of things starting to appear.
A few gulls over this morning which is a bonus for this site with 4 Herring, 1 LBB and 15 Commons all >NE over the water. Just a single Canada goose on the water along with a pair of Mallard whilst Red Grouse were noisy on the moor.
                              Just as I was tackling up I saw a distant black spot in the sky over 'Tatty Pie Hill',
what a great name that is, so grabbing the bins and expecting to see a Buzzard I struggled to start with whether Red Kite or Buzzard with its very shallow forked tail, but as it got a bit closer I could see it was a pale 1st winter Red Kite which drifted off >SW down the Calder Valley where it was picked up from Cold Edge Dams by DJS.
                              Just what the doctor ordered, a decent bird to get my Fly Flatts head back on.
 On the way home I stopped off at the Mixenden Parakeet site and managed to get 2 together in one of the usual trees. This is my first sighting this year after several checks, looking from Mixenden reservoir,
and I was beginning to wonder if they were still around.
                             No birding this aft with a project on in the daughters garden but tomorrow is looking good weather wise again.
BS