A glorious morning at Fly Flatts with heavy ground frost at 3 degrees, cloudless skies and full sun with dead calm conditions rising to SE>2 by 0930 hrs.
A pleasing morning bird wise with some decent shoreline now showing and wader numbers slowly creeping up with 9 Redshank, 2 Common Sandpiper and 2 Snipe plus the usual Lapwings, Curlews and Oystercatchers.
Once again, Wheatear were the highlight with a count of at least 19 just along the south end of the reservoir along with 2 Stonechat, 2 Skylark and several Meadow Pipits. Nothing on the water other than Canadas, Greylags, 1 Pink Footed goose and Mallards plus 2 Black Headed gulls briefly.
Up to 6 Pied Wagtail in the compound area along with 6 Reed Buntings but no Willow Warblers or Chiffchaffs now that their favourite Willow tree has been butchered.
Nothing moving skywards other than around 15 Swallows >N. Looking like another poor year for Ring Ouzel so far as its now 3 years since my last sighting at this site and 6 years since I was tripping over them in the compound with 5 present and so tame I had to back away from them for photos.
Some of the 2020 Ring Ouzel photos :-
Showing a bright sunny start to the morning on a very light SE starting off at 2 degrees then clouding by midday with chance of afternoon showers.
BS