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BRIAN SUMNER.
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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Thursday, June 19, 2025

Too hot to handle, Fly Flatts.

 

                                Distant Redshank on a sandbank.

                                        1 of 3 Common Sandpiper

                                    Over 500 Canadas present



                                    2 pr Pied Wag + 7 juvs



A better than expected morning, weather wise, with a light SE>3 keeping it cool from the wall to wall sunshine at 15 degrees.
      A busy enough morning though mostly distant, active, or marred by the heavy heat shimmer making the camera near redundant. 
   A scope from the peninsular produced 3 Redshank, 3 Common Sandpiper and 2 Oystercatchers as well as Lapwing and Curlew, whilst a rough count of geese came up with over 500 Canada and around 150 Greylag but a very low count of goslings, Canadas being down to single figures.
   A heart stopping moment with a tern like bird on the buoy that held a Sandwich Tern back in 2018, but a quick grab of the scope found it to be a Black Headed gull, whilst 4 LBB gull were out on the water.
   Empty skies today with no Swallows or Swifts.
Not looking much better for tomorrow with possibly a touch more cloud on a light SE and starting off at a crippling 18 degrees.
BS