A real wintry morning at Fly Flatts at 1 degree with the lagoon and pools frozen over and snow showers on a icy cold NW>4 but broken cloud bringing some welcome sunshine.
It seemed to be a case of, keep your heads down, this morning in the icy wind with nothing in the sky other than Lapwings chasing off unwelcome Crows passing over their territory.
Plenty wader activity with 4 Ringed Plover, 4 Oystercatchers and 6 Redshank but none of the awaited Common Sandpipers or Dunlin with Common Sand due any day now and Dunlin later in the month.
No sign of the Wheatears today looking like they have moved straight through, and who can blame them, but no doubt others will be on their way. A pair of Pied Wagtails in the boatyard and just a single Greylag on the water as well as a pair of Teal and the usual Canadas.
A calm and dry south wind day tomorrow then rain and moderate easterlies for Monday and Tuesday which will put me back on Little Gull and Kittiwake watch.
BS