Cold Edge was both disappointing and very quiet; any Whinchat I hoped for failed to materialise and there wasn't much doing otherwise. Curlew, Snipe, 2 Barnacle among the Canada, couple Linnet.
BS stopped on his way back from Fly Flatts to inform of the wealth of waders up there so I made the effort to go up. 4 Curlew were in the fields near the old Withens pub.
DP later joined in but a walk halfway round what remains of the reservoir provided only drumming Snipe and a calling Curlew, 6 Common Sandpiper and a battalion of big gulls until we reached the stretch from SW corner to the boatyard end.
Here I got 10 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plover and another Common Sandpiper. DP went along the moorland side looking for Whinchat but reported nothing doing.
I decided to walk down to Ogden which proved fatal; nothing on the drink with a Grey Wagtail in the overflow.
