Perfect skies at Fly Flatts this morning with 80% cloud and patches of blue on a light W>2 and an icy
6 degrees.
The best day so far for Pink Footed Geese with skeins moving on a broad front all >SE and reasonably high. Some of the skeins were barely visible, all being well to the North and South of me so very hard to spot and being well out of earshot. A total of 648 geese went by in 7 skeins all between 0900 and 0945 hrs.
Greylags were also moving with just a single skein >SE whilst my first moving Jackdaws went through >NE.A single RH Goosander headed >SW from the direction of Soil Hill whilst Snipe, Chaffinch, Goldfinch and Swallows passed by.
Tufted Duck were down to 8 today with Stonechat and Reed Bunting present but very few gulls.
No Peregrine on the shore today so I can,t blame that on the lack of waders although it did fly through the turbines late on in the watch.
Vis Mig
648 Pinkies............>SE, 7 skeins = 46,23,148,115,49,192,75.
48 Jackdaw............>NE
sev Mipits.............>S
17 Chaffinch..........>SW
1 Goosander...........>SW
2 Snipe...................>W
41 Goldfinch.........>S
4 Swallow..............>S
35 Greylag............>SE
Present
8 Tufted
5 Stonechat
4 Reed Bunting
9 LBB gull
5 BH gull
sev Mipits...........blogging
1 Peregrine
1 Kestrel
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