A pleasant morning to be up on the tops with blue skies and sunshine at 11 degrees on a very light NE>3.
Surprisingly, in the conditions, the birding was much more active than yesterday with more waders in , though no new species, and several new chicks around. All the geese were out on the water with well grown goslings, now looking like a record year to the dismay of the sailors with the amount of mess they make in the compound and keeping me busy clearing the jetty.
The water is extremely low with some small islands appearing offshore which is another worry for the sailors but ideal for waders.
Two BH gull over were a bonus for this time of year , although shopping at Keighley midday there were several in the car park. Two drake Tufted were on the water.
It worked the other way round today with Fly Flatts busy and Ogden, mid afternoon, quiet with just a single Herring gull in with a group of LBBs plus the usual Black Headed.
The water held 7 Canadas along with 2m and 1f Tufted plus the usual 2 Gt Crested Grebe.
FLY FLATTS
4 Ringed Plover
7 Dunlin
5 Common Sandpiper
4 Oystercatchers + 2 chicks
6 Redshank
sev Curlew chicks
2 m Tufted
1 Kestrel.......scarce this year
1 LBB gull
2 BH gull
8 Greylag + 11 goslings
c 400 Canadas + c 100 goslings
1pr Wheatear + 4 juvs just fledged
1 pr Pied Wags + 5 young still in nest.
+ usual sp.
OGDEN
7 Canada
2m 1f Tufted
2 Gt Crested Grebe
19 LBB gull
1 Herring gull
1 BH gull
+ usual sp.
BS