Dense fog on the tops this morning with just enough visibility to check the shoreline but no view of the water. A very light SW>2 at 6 degrees with light drizzle.By mid afternoon the fog had cleared leaving dark and cloudy skies.
A good start to the morning with a stop off at Cold Edge Dams to find DJS's Whimbrel still present held down by the fog but reported to have left late morning >N.
Fly Flatts was enveloped in dense fog with no visibility over the water but enough to check the shoreline for waders.
A very frustrating morning with plenty small wader activity flitting around the fringes of the water and then disappearing in the fog.
A return visit mid afternoon found it alive with Dunlin and Common Sandpiper plus the usual Ringed Plovers and Redshank whilst 3 Snipe were present, one taking food into the reed bed.
Swallows were a regular sighting whilst there are now 2 pair of Greylags with young as well as several Canada goslings. A noisy Lapwing alerted me to the presence of 2 chicks looking very vulnerable.
Fly Flatts
6 Dunlin
8 Common Sandpiper
2 Redshank
3 Snipe
2 Ringed Plover
1 m Wheatear
1 Oystercatcher
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Pied Wagtail
14 Swallow
2 m Reed Bunting
2 Lapwing chicks
several Greylag and Canada Goslings
2 Kestrel
+ usual sp.
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