A pleasant morning weather wise with full light cloud on a cool NE>2 at 10 degrees with good visibility.
A bad omen to start with when I picked out 2 Ringed Plovers on the south shore. This is usually a sign that waders have been flushed from the north end which a walk on the west bank soon confirmed with not a wader in sight.
A specially good LBB gull count of 123 along with the usual Yellow Legged Herring, 4 Herring and 5 Black Headed. A few Canadas had returned to the water with 16 present.
With wader watch quiet it gave me chance to check the compound and feeding area which produced
2 Grey Wagtails down by the beck as well as a pair of Stonechat. Just a handful of Meadow Pipits present as well as 4 Wheatear whilst 28 Swallow headed >S, closely followed by a Merlin but not showing any signs of a problem to them.
If my run of alternate days of good and bad continue I should be over-run with waders in the morning, he says, hopefully !!!
A cloudy morning tomorrow with a turn about of the wind to a light WSW at 12 degrees.
BS