Decent weather for Fly Flatts after a poor very sunny start the clouds came over on a light N>3 at 13 degrees but feeling cooler in the breeze. Good visibility.
Hard work this morning finding the birds after a few days at Leeshaw with wall to wall birds then back to a very quiet Fly Flatts with the water slowly receding and the east peninsular just starting to show.
Only 4 waders present with 4 Common Sandpipers on the newly exposed peninsular which is usually the area that attracts Sanderling anytime now. Very quiet on small migrants with just a handful of Meadow Pipits, a single Grey Wagtail and 2 Wheatear whilst the only birds in the sky were a single Swallow, one LBB gull and a juv Peregrine.
All the 5 Greylag families have fledged and left now apart from one lonely gosling that is healthy enough but still waiting to fledge so it can go and join the rest of the geese, presumably in fields at Cold Edge. Several Canadas have also gone with around 300 left, some not yet fledged.
The problem at the moment with Fly Flatts is it's very quiet compared to Leeshaw but needs to be watched at this time of year as it has the biggest chance of picking up waders, whereas Leeshaw has the best chance of gulls and Terns so I'm a bit split between the two.
Several Willow Warblers moving through Foxhill Park this afternoon, seen whilst dog walking.
More of the same weather tomorrow with a light sou'westerly.
BS