Decent weather conditions this morning with a cold NW>3 at 9 degrees with full cloud and some sun by 0915hrs.
I was hoping for the month to go out with a bang but instead it went out like a damp squib with a very quiet morning and now very limited exposed shore.
A surprise to see a Redshank on the moor with possible chick after not hearing or seeing them for a couple of weeks now. A pair of Lapwing were nearby with a very late chick.
Once again the sky was full of Swifts, some skimming the water and some very high in the grey clouds. Just 3 Common Sandpipers present but looking like the Ringed Plovers are well gone after a failed breeding year.
Meadow Pipit numbers are up with several new fledged birds around along with 2 Reed Bunting.
A quiet gull morning with 4 LBBs >SE and a single Black Headed on the water.
Not a good month with the highlights being a Little Egret and 2 Barnacle geese at Leeshaw as well as Cuckoo whilst Fly Flatts produced a single Dunlin, Common Scoter , 2 Raven with 5 juvs and a breeding Wheatear.
Looking wet and windy for tomorrow with a moderate westerly.
BS