Plenty of.........Mallard!

A fresher SE wind. Some weak sunshine in the morning then showers from early evening.

Heysham skear, low water 10:20 (Malcolm)

Eider 67

Red-breasted Merganser 4

Great Crested Grebe 6

Little Egret 2

We have quickly moved back to neap tides and it didn't fully expose the middle skear today. It should have produced a higher concentration of waders, if there had been a higher number of waders to concentrate. There wasn't!

Oystercatcher 350

Knot 220

Dunlin 1

Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)

Mallard

Moorhen in the bushes 

Silver Y

South shore (Malcolm)

Just a quick look from saltmarsh to Red Nab towards high water,  just as the rain was starting.

Knot 13 - 6 on saltmarsh, 7 on Red Nab

Bar-Tailed Godwit 92 - 77 on saltmarsh, 15 on Red Nab.

Bar-Tailed Godwit and Knot coming in to the saltmarsh 

Godwits and Knot resting by the saltmarsh 

Some of the Knot and Godwits with Oystercatchers on Red Nab

And finally, another Mallard! Slightly unusually on Red Nab. It was raining quite hard now, and he had just climbed out of the freshwater runoff. But he quickly slewed off the excess water.