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BRIAN SUMNER.
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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Sunday, April 23, 2023

Welcome visitors to Fly Flatts, Common Scoters.

                                    Single Wheatear

                                        1 of 4 Common Sandpiper

                                    This gull threw me with dark eye
                                    and pink legs. 
                                    Some dark grey on mantle, 2 CY  LBB.

                                        LBB gull  3cy



                                    6 LBBs present

                                    Single GBB west bank



                                    8 Common Scoter, 5f 3m in the mist

                                    Very flighty






 Good weather conditions this morning at Fly Flatts with a light mist on a NE>3 at 5 degrees. Full cloud with the wind increasing slightly at it turned north.
          Black dots out in the centre of the water as I arrived looked promising so quickly out with the scope to find 5 female and 3 male Common Scoter out in the centre but very flighty doing several circuits over the water but settling back down each time. They were still present as I left but boats and canoes were getting ready to launch for their Sunday session.
        A single male Wheatear was new in whilst the 4 Common Sandpipers were still present along with the usual 4 Ringed Plover, Redshanks and Oystercatchers etc.
         A Great Black Backed gull was on the west bank briefly but left as 6 LBB gulls dropped in nearby whilst , what I believe to be a 2 CY Lesser Black Backed gull flew over looking unusual with dark eye and still retaining pink legs but mantle too dark for Herring.
BS