A pleasant but cold morning at Fly Flatts with 80% cloud on a light S>2 turning SW>3 at 7 degrees with good visibility.
Very quiet skies today other than several Swifts and 4 Curlew moving high and >E, plus a single Kestrel,
A new arrival of Ringed Plover with now 5 present along with 8 Common Sandpiper and a single Redshank. Just 3 pair of Lapwing left, still with chicks, and the breeding Curlews are now getting restless spending most of the time noisily in the air whilst they wait for their young to fledge.
A sum up of the Greylags and Canadas came up with over 400 geese including a good year for goslings, but not good for keeping the floating jetty clean, which at the moment is a daily task.
A Short Eared Owl was quartering a distant field on my way home. You're probably sick of photos of Common Sandpiper and Ringed Plover but, Ringed Plover especially, are such stunning birds I find it impossible to see them without snapping them, and when they are gone, they are gone.
A moderate sou'westerly for morning with chance of some rain but hopefully the wind will move the overnight mist. A slight rise in temperature.
BS