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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
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Sunday, February 27, 2022

Signs of Spring, Fly Flatts, (permit only)

 

                                             2 Oystercatchers pairing up.

                                       Back to just the original pair of Ringed Plovers now.



                                                No shortage of Curlew now.
                                           Oyks and Ringed Plovers on the east bank.

A bright spring like morning at Fly Flatts but an icy SE>3 with very slippery roads on the way up there at 0 degree. A thick bank of cloud was over the west bank restricting visibility to the west.
                                 It seems the original pair of Ringed Plovers have seen off their rival, or rivals, with just the two present along with 2 Oystercatchers and several Curlew.
                                The full complement of Canada geese are now back on and around the water and, with the noise from them and calling Curlews, it made it feel more like the active Fly Flatts.
                                 A trickle of LBB gulls headed into the wind >SE totaling 11 over in around 30 minutes whilst a flock of 8 Meadow Pipits were very mobile.
                               On the way back I stopped to check Nolstar for Golden Plovers just in time to see at least 15 Curlew flushed by mountain bikes around the top of  Slaughter Gap. These were probably some of the birds that NK reported recently at Stod Fold.
BS