A windy early afternoon at Fly Flatts with a NW>4 at a chilly 10 degrees with part cloud and some sun.
Gulls were the feature today with around 250 big gulls, mainly LBBs with a few Herring but very hard to check through being tightly packed and way over in the NW corner along with heat distortion. A fly over of an adult Peregrine put the whole flock up which all left >NE.
The single juv Dunlin from yesterday was still probing in the same area but nothing else around the shoreline other than a couple of juv Pied Wagtails.
A few Meadow Pipits were present whilst 3 Tufted and 8 Canadas were on the water. Not a good start to autumn birding so far.
Very few gulls in the Thornton fields this p.m.
BS