Waders Galore, Fly Flatts

 

                                Several Dunlin

                                White Horses across the water

                                    female Pied Wagtail

                                Dunlins very mobile in the wind

                                My experiment to keep Canadas off the jetty

                                    Around 5 Redshank present

                                    Swifts piling through

                                    Double figures of Common Sandpiper

                                    A better year for Curlew

An icy cold NW>5 this morning at 6 degrees with 40% cloud and sunshine.

        The area was alive with waders this morning, all very mobile in the strong wind so hard to get an accurate count but Common Sandpipers are into double figures now along with a minimum of 7 Dunlin,

6 Ringed Plover and 5 Redshank.

        Swifts and Swallows were piling through >N with a single Wheatear and Raven near the lagoon.

Nothing else in the sky other than a single LBB gull with very few gulls this spring due to lack of shore but good news for the numerous Greylag, Canada and Mallard chicks which so far all seem to be doing well.

BS