A very windy morning with a W>5 gusting 6 with white horses across the water. Good visibility with 90% cloud at 9 degrees but feeling much colder in the wind.
Moving conditions must have been good through the night with a full clear out of Dunlin apart from 1, new in, juvenile Dunlin which I hoped to make into something else from a distance going by its small size and darting about the shore in an un Dunlin type fashion.
Trying to sort the 3 races of Dunlin which pass through the area is as bad as sorting out the sub adult gulls. Speaking of which, a shopping trip to Keighley midday found several big gulls starting to re appear around the Cullingworth fields.
A quiet morning otherwise in the strong wind with just the usual species but good to see the female Ringed Plover has finally left her dead chick and is moving around the whole of the shore again along with the male.
Still plenty Swifts moving through >S undeterred by the strong wind.
FLY FLATTS
1 juv Dunlin
1 pr Ringed Plover
1 Snipe
4 Oystercatchers
3 Common Sandpiper
2 Redshank
2 Wheatear
sev Swifts......>S
+ usual sp
BS