A dark and drizzly start to the morning with a moderate SW>4-5 at 10 degrees with slight breaks of sun by 0915 hrs.
A busy morning at Fly Flatts, especially in the sky, with 3 Buzzards up at once over the Nab whilst a Red Kite, moving >S beyond the wind turbines, was heavily mobbed by Lapwings and Starlings. The sky was buzzing with Swifts feeding over the water as well as a few Swallows whilst several LBB gulls headed >NE.
Wader wise it was down to the long staying Redshanks, Common Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plovers and Oystercatchers as well as Lapwings and Curlews. All these species, apart from LRP, have several families of chicks now and several Greylag goslings are very near fledging and ready for flight shortly.
Unfortunately, Ringed Plover and Dunlin seem to have gone without breeding this year.
The 2 pair of breeding Pied Wagtails have young leaving the nest now and the Stonechats will soon be taking flight.
Looking like a washout in the morning with a promise of heavy rain on a moderate SW at 10 degrees improving after midday.
BS