A very windy Fly Flatts early morn with a moderate to strong NW>5-6 with full cloud at 14 degrees and hazy over the moor.
Hard work this morning with the wind wafting the scope around and a job to hold the bins steady. Very little about with just 2 Oystercatchers and a Lapwing on the wader scene whilst a few LBB gulls and Swallows headed >NW into the wind and 2 Black Headed on the water.
A Buzzard was on a distant post then a rock pile whilst a second bird was soaring high over the moor.
Otherwise, down to the usual Goldfinch, Mipits and Pied Wagtails etc.
With a poor morning and Lynda not wanting to go out I did an extended dog walk to check the Ogden west bank gull situation which produced around 80 LBB, 15 Herring, c 50 Black Headed and a single Common gull. No sign of Yellow Legged which have been poor, in what is usually the peak month, with just single sightings at Ogden, NK,BS. and 2 sightings of probably the same bird at Fly Flatts, BS. A Med gull sighting is imminent with August being the peak month, occasionally turning up at Ogden but more often found by MP at Thornton.
Otherwise at Ogden, 1 juv Heron, 1 Cormorant and 1 Oystercatcher plus the usual species and good to bump into NK doing the rounds.
A similar forecast for tomorrow with cloudy sunshine but a lighter NNW wind at 15 degrees. A slight chance of some light showers.
BS