A decent morning weather wise at Fly Flatts with a brisk NW>3 at 16 degrees with a mix of cloud and sunshine after heavy overnight rain.
Wheatears are starting to arrive with 4 juveniles and an adult male in partial moult but, as always, the first returners are very timid and keep a good distance before settling down.
Nothing new in the way of waders as yet with just 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Oystercatchers and a pair of Lapwing with at least 1 very late chick.
Plenty Swallows over but no Swifts for a few days now, though I have recorded then through to the end of August on previous years.
A Kestrel dropped down onto the edge of the moor and came up with a vole in one talon but soon dropped it back into the long grass, I wonder if it survived its ordeal. The Kestrel later tried its luck at the Lapwing chick but was soon seen off with the adults. A Buzzard was on a distant rock to the west of the water.
Nothing on the water other than the female Tufted and 3 chicks as well as 2 Black Headed gulls whilst the shoreline was, once again, alive with Mipits, Pied Wagtails and Goldfnch.
The 7 white Greylags a becoming a real distraction, as when they fly, at distance, they look just like Egrets making me grab for the camera.
A cloudy morning given for tomorrow with a light SE at 16 degrees, hopefully, no fog.
BS