Poor conditions this morning with a foggy start lifting to a very low cloud base with light drizzle on a SSW3 inc 4 at 12 degrees. The skies finally cleared by 0945 hrs with a touch of sun but too late in the day for any fly over migrants other than Hirundines.
Just enough visibility to scope the north and east shoreline from the west bank though dark and misty but enough to prove no waders present. Just 4 LBB and 3 Black Headed gulls on the shore with nothing on the water.
Several Meadow Pipits were around the shore along with just 2 Wheatear but no sign of the Stonechat flock down on the fence line. The 2 resident Crows were giving 2 Kestrels some grief whilst a Buzzard was high over the moor.
On the way home, a check of the Withins Head farm area for Black Redstart and the Nolstar fields for Yellow Wagtails drew a blank, even though there are several reports of good counts of Yellow Wag around the region at present. Yellow Wag is a bogey bird for me with my last sighting at Fly Flatts, 3/8/2020 and only 6 sightings since 2011. My best sighting being on the Raggalds Flood, 17/5/2013.
A morning of cloudy sunshine for morning at 10 degrees on a moderate SW increasing as the day goes on bringing a weather front of rain around midday.
BS