First Jack Snipe and Brent of autumn

A dry day with a south(ish) wind freshening by evening.

South shore (Malcolm)

A morning check from Red Nab to the saltmarsh, where I watched the tide completely cover the marsh. It doesn't take long on these spring tides.

Brent Goose 1 (probably pale-bellied) flew from the NW towards Potts Corner.

Shelduck 28

Eider 3 south

Wigeon 72 flew from Red Nab, most ending up on the saltmarsh.

Wigeon in the saltmarsh creek as the tide was arriving 

More Wigeon arrived later

Lapwing 107

Once again there were no Common Snipe flushed from the Marsh, presumably they are more sensitive to the recently regular raptor visits.

Jack Snipe 2 - one came in from the north and landed on the saltmarsh, before being flushed by the  tide and flying to Middleton Nature Reserve. The other must have already been on the marsh and flew in the same direction when flushed.

Jack Snipe

No sign of the Merlin today, but a Sparrowhawk made one pass over the marsh.

Linnet 26 on the fringe of the marsh

Rock Pipit 1

Grey Wagtail 2 together flew east over the caravans 

This Carrion Crow found this "morsel" (looks like discarded chewing gum!) on the
 saltmarsh grass. It examined it for quite a while......

.........before deciding it was indeed edible 

Janet managed an outing today. Her arm is still in a cast so she was restricted to just using her standard camera lens.

Little Egret in front of the foreshore rocks

Red Admiral 

Long-Tailed Tit

Heysham skear (Malcolm)

I went down this evening on the off chance that there were any Brents feeding in the skear corner. There wasn't.

Still loads of gutweed and sea lettuce available, they will have plenty to
eat when they do arrive 

Eider 12

Red-breasted Merganser 1

Little Egret 6

Oystercatcher 1,000

Curlew 50

Knot 500

Redshank 130

Turnstone 25

One of the Knot had an orange flag. The code on one side was 
completely obscured 

I didn't manage a clear shot of the other side, but it looks to be at
least partly obscured