A lovely morning to be walking the tops with clear blue skies and sunshine on a W>3 turning NW>4 and clouding at 11 degrees.
The water running into the reservoir is now easing so hopefully the level will now have peaked with the peninsular under water and all but a few small areas of shore gone. Luckily the level has,nt reached the overflow so that means the valve will have to be left open so all it needs now is a decent spell with no serious rain ready for August, September for the peak of the wader movement.
Luckily at Fly Flatts there is always cobbled banking and the slipway exposed which holds waders. This morning there were 3 Common Sandpiper and a single Ringed Plover present as well as the Oystercatcher family. On the plus side, wader watching is much easier, now that there is less shore to check.
Again, no Swifts or Swallows over the water and very little in the sky other than a single Buzzard, 1 Raven, 1 LBB gull and a Kestrel whilst the lagoon tree held a Willow Warbler among the swarms of Meadow Pipits.
Wheatears were once again everywhere with more adult birds now joining the juvs, mostly in near autumn plumage.
Please excuse squiggly writing on header pics as with no Picasa now I have no facility to type on the image as I used to do and its no easy task trying to write with a cursor. I,ll have to put on birds with a short name, lets hope I don,t photograph a Grasshopper Warbler !
BS