A very dark and wet morning with a moderate SW>4 and heavy drizzle at 8 degrees, my kind of weather which seems to be what the waders like also.
A second mega wader in the same number of days with a stonking Black Tailed Godwit feeding with the Dunlins. After about 15 minutes it did a circuit of the Flat Moor before heading off >W. It was July last year when I had a visit from a Black Tailed Godwit but no Bar Tailed Godwit at this site since May 2011.
Otherwise it was busy wader wise but just the usual species.
Mid afternoon and a risky visit to Ogden, it being school holidays , but with steady rain it was surprisingly quiet with very few people around.
The idea of the visit was to check the juv Mute Swan which seemed much improved since last week and was moving around the water freely and feeding well.
Otherwise it was just down to a pair of Tufted and 6 LBBs on the water plus 2 Heron and the usual warblers etc.
BS