The weather has been conspiring against us lately with wind, rain or wind and rain that has been making ringing sessions impossible. It hasn't even been viable to travel any distance to check for dragonflies, damsel flies or butterflies with the risk of extremely heavy showers punctuating the brief spells of sunshine.
So, today we checked back to the local gravel extraction plant to see how the Little Ringed Plovers are progressing and look for any Lapwing pulli that we missed on our last visit.
There was no sign of LRP chicks with two adults, possibly sitting, so we'll have to try again later. We again saw the Lapwing chick trio that we'd marked on our last visit and also saw two much larger chicks. We thought these were probably the pair that we'd ringed one of and lost track of the second. Luckily, as we only found one of these it was a chick without a ring. These well grown chicks, increasingly gangly and less cute every day, are likely to be flying when we are next on site.
There was a nasty storm later that afternoon with heavy rain and large hailstones so we were right to take advantage of the window in the weather.