A real grizzly start to the morning with hill fog and heavy drizzle turning to mist and rain finally clearing by 0830 hrs leaving 80% cloud with some sunshine and light showers on a WNW>3 at 12 degrees.
First bird of the morning was an adult Peregrine skimming the roadside wall before veering over the Nolstar field as I drove up there.
Regatta day at Fly Flatts so plenty disturbance with cars arriving so had to stick to the south and west bank. The 3 Oystercatchers were on the north bank but the Blackwit will be well on its way now with no sign around the shore.
The Ringed Plover is still present along with 2 Common Sandpipers whilst a flock of Lapwing headed >NW. A Kestrel was overhead being mobbed by Swifts heading >S whilst Curlews seem to have gone.
Best of the morning was my first returning juv Wheatear which only showed briefly by the lagoon before disappearing, not to be re-located.
Sounds like a brighter morning tomorrow at 12 degrees with cloudy sunshine but still a moderate NW increasing as the day goes on.
BS