Another icy cold morning at 2 degrees on a W>3 turning NW>2 with full cloud and a few light snow showers.
Everything is against the spring movement at Fly Flatts this year so far with a high water level and icy cold winds keeping birds down at a lower level. Luckily waders are keeping the wheels turning despite the lack of shore with now 6 Ringed Plover and 5 Common Sandpiper as well as Oystercatchers and Redshank.
A single Raven was over 'Tatty Pie Hill' whilst a distant Buzzard over 'Fill Belly Flat' was mobbed and moved on by Lapwings and Curlew.
A group of 9 Herring and 2 LBB were over in the NW corner where several geese and Lapwings are sitting eggs.
According to MC at Oxford, Bar-tailed Godwits are on the move, though they seldom visit Fly Flatts with my last sighting here being 2011, whereas I usually get a Black-tailed Godwit annually but its still to happen this year as yet.
Mornings looking dry, back down to 1 degree on a light, fog threatening, N turning NE so its wait and see.
BS