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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Fly Flatts

    Meadow Pipit, nearest I could do for a Wheatear, sorry.
          Hundreds of Mipits moving >N
   Early morning fog in the valleys


   Ollie not happy tied up whilst I waded through a muddy patch
               on Wheatear hunt.
                         Plenty gulls moving through
  Aggression amongst the Canadas
                 More gulls through
   Heron on frog watch, moors alive with noisy frogs.

                          2 Oystercatchers

           Curlew numbers building
                 LBB, intermedius heading >N

Fly Flatts  0645- 1000 hrs
Thick fog on the way to Fly Flatts but luckily, as with Queensbury ,it was above the cloud so a bright morning with a cool NE>3.

Gulls and Meadow Pipits were the birds of the day with hundreds of Mipits heading >N, some very high whilst others were ground hopping across the moor.
Herring, Common and LBB were all heading >N with several LBB Intermedius sp. amongst them.
Otherwise it was the usual sp. with still no sign of Wheatear.
A call from HC scoping from the top road at the north end telling me of a Wheatear he had in his scope down near the water got me driving on there and walking down to the ponds in search but 2 earlier joggers seemed to have seen it on its way. Thanks for the call anyway Howard, a near miss.

12 Curlew
4 Lapwing
2 Heron
c300 Meadow Pipit................................>N
12 Herring Gulls...................................>N
21 LBB , Graellsii ................................>N
4 LBB  Intermedius..............................>N
16 Common .........................................>N   and  >E
5 Red Grouse
2 Snipe . Drumming
+ usual sp.
BS