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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




Sunday, May 10, 2015

Fly Flatts

                                        Plenty Curlews holding territory.
                      Unusual to find a pair of Tufted at thiis site


                                  No shoreline so down to 5 Common Sandpiper

  A poor spring for Wheatear, only 2 present

               A mish mash Greylag



       One of my favourite sights, flying geese.

                          More Common Sandpipers

Fly Flatts  0645-0930 hrs  Icy cold SW>6, bright with good visibility

With water right up over the banking now not much chance of waders with just 5 Common Sandpipers on the cobbles whilst an Oystercatcher was on the boat jetty.
Wheatear numbers are well down this year with just 2 females present and a third spotted by DP who was watching from the top road.
Several of the Canada geese have young now with many more still on the moor whilst 6 Greylag inc 1 white job were mobile before landing way out on the moor with the white goose standing out like a snowman.
Plenty Swallows moving through but too windy and early in the day for Swifts.

2 Wheatear
1pr Tufted
5 Common Sandpiper
1 Oystercatcher
Several LBB gulls cruising round the moor on egg watch
+ usual sp.
Still no sign of Twite despite Nyger being put down weekly.
BS