A good run of weather lately for the morning visits to Fly Flatts. This morning had full cloud at 8 degrees with a SW>4 and a few specs of rain.
More Ringed Plover had arrived with a total of 6 birds but still down to 3 Dunlin as well as the usual Common Sandpipers, Oystercatcher and Redshank.
A single Buzzard was over the east ridge harassing the Lapwings and Curlews whilst a good number of gulls were eyeing up the mass of Greylag and Canada goslings though none seemed to dare to have a go. Wheatear are still in the area and the Cuckoo was calling from down in the valley near Dean Head. Just 1 male Stonechat today but very mobile and soon moved through and across Fill Belly Flat.
A check on the juv Mute Swan at Ogden mid p.m. found it a little brighter and using the open water whilst around 35 big gulls were on the west bank before being flushed. A walk around the water perimeter track produced several singing birds, which I didnt get involved with, plus 2 Common Sandpipers on the shoreline.
Though quiet with birds there was plenty going on with 3 nuggets in dingies on the water who were reported to YW who in turn were going to pass the message on to presumably the police , though none turned up whilst I was there. At the duck feeding corner a young lady RSPCA officer had a large net hoping to catch a reported Mallard with a bad leg but I left her throwing seed out in the hopes they would come out of the water for her.
FLY FLATTS
1 Buzzard
1 m Stonechat
3 Wheatear
1 Cuckoo
3 Dunlin
6 Ringed Plover
3 Redshank
1 Oystercatcher
5 Common Sandpiper
48 LB gull
19 Herring gull
+ usual sp.
OGDEN
1 juv Mute Swan
2 Common Sandpiper
25 LBB gull
10 Herring gull
1 Heron
+ usual sp.
BS