Another pea-souper this morning at Fly Flatts with visibility down to 50 yards with a light SE>2 at 14 degrees. The fog began to clear at 0930 hrs but rolled in again as I left at 1000 hrs.
Another foggy visit to Fly Flatts but at this time of year my main aim is to check for waders which is still possible in the fog, apart from the far away shores. After a while, staring into the fog, your eyes start to play tricks thinking every stone or piece of driftwood on the waters edge is a bird. You can even think sometime that they move.
No waders but small migrants are starting to appear with an adult and juv Robin in the lagoon tree, not a common species up here, whilst the compound bushes held a Wren, Reed Bunting and juv Stonechat, the latter being scarce these last few months.
At least 6 Wheatear were mobile around the shore as well as a good count of Meadow Pipits.
Fortunately the wind turns round to the west for morning, hopefully blowing the fog back out into the North Sea where it belongs, with a light west to north west forecast with cloudy sunshine.
BS