A busier morn at Fly Flatts.

                                     2 of 6 Lesser Black Backed

                                        2 cy

                                    Usual Oystercatchers

                                    Single Wheatear

                                    Plenty Curlew

                                    4 Common Sandpiper present.

                        Relief to find the Ringed Plover pair.

An icy cold morning at Fly Flatts reading 1 degree and a heavy ground frost but clear blue skies and sunshine which turned to full cloud by 0900 hrs with a biting NW>3.

      Much more activity this morning and a couple of surprises with a single Wheatear and the Ringed Plover breeding pair turning up after I thought they must have gone. Also a single Redshank showed up which this species also being absent the last couple of visits.

      A Heron was on the west bank along with 4 Common Sandpipers, feeding between the cobbles. More big gulls are starting to show up with the adults probably being non breeders whilst todays LBBs were mostly 2 cy birds which will soon be going into their 3rd cy. Just 2 of todays gulls were adults with the others being 2 cy.

    Nothing in the fields on the way home today but 2 Swallow were over Bradshaw near the old brewery at the bottom of the 'Bonnet'.

      Looking dry for morning but a strong north westerly that may bring me some Arctic Terns over from Lancashire.

BS