Another wintery morning at Fly Flatts with an icy cold WNW>4 gusting 5 with white horses on the water. Around 60% cloud with periods of sunshine at 5 degrees.
A real wader morning today with 9 wader species, the bonus being another, or the same, Little Ringed Plover, a bogey bird for this site in the past.
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Ringed Plover
8 Redshank
2 Oystercatchers
1 Snipe
6 Common Sandpiper
4 Dunlin
Sev Curlew
Sev Lapwing
Just 2 Wheatear hanging on as well as 3 Stonechat plus 2 Reed Buntings. A group of 11 Lesser Black Backed gulls settled on the water whilst Swifts were piling through >NE continuously.
A Buzzard flying through the wind turbines was heavily mobbed by Curlew and Lapwing and at one point the Lapwing dropped down onto the Buzzards wing for a split second, making feathers fly.
A cold but pleasing, hectic watch.
A light to moderate NW for morning with plenty sunshine clouding by midday. A dry morning kicking off at a cool 4 degrees.
BS