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BS




Saturday, July 5, 2025

A bad day follows a good one. Match abandoned.

 With a near gale force wind blowing early morn, heavy horizontal drizzle and fog on the tops, it was down to a very wet dog walk around Foxhill.
   Disappointing not to be able to get up to Fly Flatts whist the big Black Tailed Godwit move is on with a count of 40 at Nosterfield, Ripon as well as 7 fly-overs with several other sites reporting visiting birds.
    It gave me time to reflect on the waders I,ve had so far this year with a count of 14, these being :-
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Lapwing
Snipe
Golden Plover
Redshank
Greenshank
Bar Tailed Godwit
Black Tailed Godwit
Ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper
Dunlin
Wood Sandpiper
Ruff.
 
All these being at Fly Flatts other than the Bar Tailed Godwit which was at Leeshaw. Despite a decent count, Dunlin have been in low numbers and failed to breed as well as Ringed Plover whilst Sanderling missed  altogether as well as Little Ringed Plover although the latter is very scarce at this site.
      Autumn is usual poor for waders at Fly Flatts although in previous years it has provided brief visits from Grey Plover, Green Sandpiper, Knot, Spotted Redshank, Whimbrel, Turnstone and Sanderling, plus returning species which I've had in the spring. With water levels perfect it just a lot of waiting and scoping now through until October though with such a poor spring, I'm not holding my breath.
   A cloudy morning tomorrow with possible light rain and early mist on a lighter WNW at 13 degrees.
BS