A bright sunny morning at Fly Flatts with full blue sky on a light SE>2 at 10 degrees.
A better wader morning though mostly scope work with several of the birds over on the NW banking. At least 8 Dublin, 6 Redshank, 4 Common Sandpiper and a single Ringed Plover along with Oystercatcher, Curlew, Lapwing and a single Snipe.
The long staying pair of Tufted were on the water as well as one LBB gull. No hirundines or Swifts this morning and nothing moving skyward.
A strange year with the geese with around 200 Canadas but only 6 goslings seen so far. The majority of the Canadas are out on the water looking like none breeders. Two pair of Greylags, each with one white bird, had 7 goslings each but within a few days, adults and goslings have left the area, though its not unusual for Greylags and Mallards to walk their young across the moor to Cold Edge Dams.
Several well grown Lapwing chicks around the fields at the moment but no proof of breeding Curlew as yet.
Another cloudy sunshine day tomorrow on a light NNE starting off at 9 degrees.
BS