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BRIAN SUMNER.
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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




Friday, May 8, 2026

Fly Flatts. Thursday 7/5/26

 

                                    Stonechat busy feeding young



                                    Pink footed goose



                                    1 Oystercatcher
                            Waders way out on the peninsular obscured by heat shimmer
                                Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover

                                    Redshank, 2 Ringed Plover

An ideal morning, weather wise, with full light cloud and good visibility on a light SSE> at  4 degrees.
   Waders were buzzing this morning but very distant on the peninsular and badly obscured by heat shimmer. At least 4 Redshank, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Common Sandpiper and 2 Dunlin as well as the usual Curlew, Oystercatcher and Lapwing.
   A Pink Footed goose was in with the Greylags before heading off towards Cold Edge dams whilst small passerines were 2 Stonechat, 3 Reed Bunting 3 Wheatear, 4 Pied Wagtails and several Mipits. Plenty Swallows skimming low over the water but nothing moving skyward.
    A light SW for morning at 9 degrees with some thick cloud and 50% chance of rain throughout the day.
BS