Still a continuation of clear blue skies and blasting sun at Fly Flatts this morning reading 14 degrees but feeling quite cool with a moderate E>4. The west bank was extremely windy whipping my cap off twice but a pleasant change to feel cool again.
The moderate easterly and cooler temperatures certainly did the trick with the waders with the original family of 4 Ringed Plover plus a second family of 4 along with two separate males. A count of 10 Ringed Plover is not a record up there but a nice count to brighten the morning.
Along with 3 Oystercatcher and chick, 6 Common Sandpiper and 4 Redshank it was a real healthy wader morning though still awaiting a new species of wader which may be into July now, if at all. Swifts filled the sky again but only 5 LBB gulls and a single Herring even though Mixenden had around 30 big gulls on the water as I passed early morn.
BS