A very hot and hazy start to the day at Fly Flatts but soon clouded over with a nice WNW>3 at 19 degrees.
A very active morning with tons of movement going on with a wave of passerines moving through, slowly ground hopping >S. Unfortunately it was early doors when the sun was full up and hazy with strong heat shimmer making scoping and photos poor.
A family of Whinchat were in with a group of Willow Warbler, Reed Bunting, Spotted Flycatcher and Stonechat along with several Meadow Pipits. By 0915 hrs the whole group had moved through just leaving the Wheatears still on the shore.
All the small passerine activity invited a fly through Merlin and 2 Kestrels but none seemed successful whilst Swallows were heading >S and a Curlew went over high and >W.
The juv Little Ringed Plover reappeared today along with a Common Sandpiper and a Snipe on the shore with just a female Tufted and 2 Teal on the water along with the usual gulls.
With the weekend over and temperature down I ventured to Ogden mid p.m. to do a gull check but nothing special with a poor count of Herring but Common Gulls up to around 15.
FLY FLATTS
1 Snipe
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Merlin
2 Kestrel
1 f Tufted
2 Teal
6 Wheatear
1 Curlew................>W
c 50 Swallow........>S
3 Whinchat
4 Reed Bunting
4 Willow Warbler
2 Stonechat
1 Spotted Flycatcher
sev Mipits
+ usual sp.
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