Monday, August 29, 2011

Fly Flatts Grey Plover

At 0845 this morning in strong WSW>6 winds a single calling Grey Plover flew low over the water at Fly Flatts from the direction of the NE corner and over the banking at the NW corner keeping low over the moor >SW in the direction of Dean Head or down the Calder valley. I don,t know if the bird had been on the shoreline or just a fly over as scoping had been difficult in the conditions.
1 out of the 12 Wheatear present was a brightly coloured large bruiser of a bird of the Greenland sp.
BS

2 comments:

Nick Carter said...

Reward for effort Bri!

David Sutcliffe said...

A very good bird to get for our area as it's not always an annual tick! Well done for getting up there in those conditions.