Despite the weather forecast for a dry, sunny, calm morning, it was just the opposite at Fly Flatts with a strong W>4 gusting 5 with heavy rain showers throughout at a cold 9 degrees and a very low cloud-base.
Understandably, in the conditions, very little was on the move with several grounded Meadow Pipits
and just a handful on the move keeping low below the cloud. A report of Pinks >E over Ogden at 0826 hrs must have sneaked over my air space up in the clouds, thanks to Nick Small for the report.
A single Buzzard, Kestrel and Peregrine were overhead but otherwise it was back to groundwork which produced the usual Wheatear, 9 Stonechat, 3 Reed Bunting and a Pied Wagtail whilst a Willow Warbler was flitting about in the lagoon tree.
BS