Luckily the moderate NE>3 kept the fog at bay with a low cloud base shrouding the turbines on a drizzly start to the morning but improving to 50% cloud and some sun at 8 degrees.
A very lively morning wader wise with at least 10 Common Sandpipers, probably more, but 10 is a safe count without fear of duplicating. Ringed Plovers counted at 6 along with 5 Redshank and 4 Oystercatchers but the first small wave of Dunlin seem to have gone through.
A surprise to get Snipe at last with 4 birds chipping and up drumming, just as I was beginning to think
they had deserted this site.
Several Swallows through >N and my first 3 Swifts of the spring, indirectly, whilst feeding, heading >NE.
Only 4 Wheatear this morning and looking sad on Ring Ouzel yet again this spring with only one record here last year. Unbelievable that in 2019 when all the work was going on at the reservoir, Ring Ouzels were hopping around the workers in the compound and several too near for me to focus on, unfortunately, just a one off.
Otherwise, just a single LBB gull and the usual species present but a great birdy morning.
An afternoon dog walk on Ned Hill Track was just that with a single Willow Warbler and a few Woodpigeons.
Weather for morning not looking too bad though the wind short of puff with a very light SW turning SE so it will be a swot the midges morning. Also, camera heat shimmer is raising its ugly head as the temperature creeps up.
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