A glorious morning at Fly Flatts with thick fog down below in the Aire Valley but cloudless blue skies and sunshine on the tops with the wind turned to a very light ESE>1 at a frosty 2 degrees but soon warming up in the sun.
A bit of a better morning bird-wise with at least 8 Redshank now present as well as 2 Oystercatchers plus the usual Curlews and Lapwings. A Snipe over the Flat Moor was a rare sighting at this site when I used to get around 6 every visit a few years ago.
Two LBB gulls were on the water at the north end and good to get 2 female and 1 male Teal below the south bank before moving onto the water beneath the north banking.
A pair of Red Legged Partridge ran across the track and into the top field whilst Meadow Pipits are slowly increasing.
Common Sandpiper should be arriving anytime now, my earliest being the 7th but usually around the 14th of this month.
Still no Golden Plover in the Nolstar fields so looking sad for Dotterel unless we get some heavy rain in the next few weeks. The problem now is that most farmers have fancy digging equipment which are used for draining their fields so dry fields mean no waders.
Another sunny day tomorrow with a light NE but still an early morn temperature of 2 degrees.
BS