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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
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Saturday, July 30, 2022

Peering through the fog, Fly Flatts,(permit only)

 A misty start at the reservoir with thick fog rolling in by 0815 hrs and light drizzle on a SW>3 at 12 degrees. The fog continued through in banks throughout the watch with a few very short periods of partial clearance.
                Only around 40% of the shore could be checked this morning with no visibility to the north shore where yesterdays Greenshank was found.
                The only wader found was a single adult Ringed Plover along with 1 Herring, 2 LBB and 8 Black Headed gull on the near shore. Around 6 Wheatear were present and a check on the Pied Wagtail nest found all 3 eggs hatched with healthy, well feathered chicks looking about a week from fledging. If these 3 survive the Pied Wag pair will have raised 5 young this year.
               On the way back Nolstar fields were just below the cloud base and 3 Curlew flew over >E. These could have possibly been Whimbrel as very short billed but not calling and more likely to be juv Curlew.
This coincides with a Curlew sighting over Ogden this morning also,(NK). Gull numbers are building in the Balkram Edge fields but only Black Headeds present this morning.
             More light wind and rain for morning which could mean more fog but hopefully not.
BS