A dead calm morning at Fly Flatts with bright clear skies and a hard ground frost at 4 degrees but feeling warm in the sun.
A bit livelier this morning thanks to wildfowl with 5 Wigeon on the water along with 1 Teal and 32 Mallard whilst 16 Greylag geese headed >SE.
This must be by far the worst October so far for migration with completely empty skies and no grounded passerines other than 2 Stonechat by the top gate as I was leaving. Where are all the Pinks?
Just 8 Black Headed and 2 LBB gulls present but a mega for MP when he text me with a Little gull leaving the Thornton fields >E with Black Headed. I think I,ve only ever had 2 inland Little Gull,
one being Fairburn Ings- May 26th 1996 and Otley Gravel Pits- May 14th 2000, although they have passed through Leeshaw in the not too distant past.
Looking back at last year, we are now a week past the peak time for the main surge of Pinks over so hopefully they are just running late due to the mild weather.
BS