Fly Flatts

A pleasant afternoon up there after earlier wind and rain rain eased and cleared.
1 Turnstone on the mud at the top end flushed and towered high and away >W
c10 Common Sandpiers
2 Oystercatchers
6+ Lapwing
c10 Curlew
2 Redshank
Dunlin heard but not seen
c 8 Wheatear
No Twite though more Niger seed put down.
1 Herring Gull and 17 and 12 L B B Gulls through >W

Gutted by the news from Bowland today - Three grey male Hen Harriers 'disappeared' in last 3 weeks. Two of the nests were abandoned.