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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, July 17, 2025

The wait continues, Fly Flatts

 

                                    Single Ringed Plover


                                     Low water   SE corner

                                        South shore


                                            Bring on the waders

A strange weather morning with dense fog down in the air valley to the east and fog banks on the tops to the west. Luckily these banks soon cleared leaving full cloud on a light SE>2 increasing 3 at 15 degrees. Heavy drizzle by 0945 hrs.
    A bit of a non descript morning with plenty activity but nothing to get the adrenaline going.
A single Ringed Plover was present as well as 2 Common Sandpiper and 3 Oystercatcher whilst the Lapwing is still giving warnings about the unseen chick/s.
   The female Tufted is still on the water with 3 juvs along with 4 Black Headed gull and 2 LBBs whilst the sky remained empty, other than a Raven over the quarry. The 5 Wheatear must have passed straight through as no signs this morning.
    Otherwise, down to small passerines with good counts of Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit and Goldfinch.
Got to be some Terns about anytime now and a couple of weeks away from Black Redstart time.
     Cloudy sunshine for morning on a light SSW at16 degrees with a thunderstorm warning for p.m.
BS