Another midday visit to Fly Flatts with very dark clouds on a SW>3 turning W>4 at 16 degrees with light drizzle throughout but good reservoir weather.
A good move of wildfowl today with 5 Tufted on the water as well as 14 Teal hiding away in the NW corner but becoming very mobile flying from one end of the water to the other.
Just 8 LBB gulls on the north shore but otherwise quiet with all yesterdays Meadow Pipits, Stonechats and Wheatears gone overnight. Around 200 Mipits were in the area yesterday but must have been congregating ready for a mass blast off.
A flock of around 50 Goldfinch are moving around the thistle tops near the entrance track and near to the lagoon.
On the way back a check on the fields below the Raggalds where gull numbers are rising daily with around 80 gulls today, mainly Commons and Black Headed with a few Herrings mixed in but strangely no LBBs.
BS