Little change

We went from drizzle to mist to very low cloud. Almost no air movement.

North shore 

No reports from here so far from today, but some nice shots that Janet took yesterday.

First calendar year Kittiwake feeding on No.1 outfall

Little Egret, just below the sea wall

Oystercatcher and Turnstone feeding between the crevices on the 
Honeycomb worm bed out from the roundhead.

Heysham skear (Malcolm)

I went down at lunchtime as the ebbing tide was exposing the inner skear, by this time the mist had lifted and it was just very low cloud.

Pale-belied Brent goose 30 minimum feeding all around the skear and the rocks closer to the play area.

Pale-bellied Brent geese, Knot and Oystercatcher 

Eider 73 - 33 close to the skear plus a raft of 30 further out. These are some of the close in Eider with Brent geese. The geese are stripping the gutweed from the rocks.

Red-breasted Merganser 5. First record for a while, these two had just come in and were freshening up.

Wigeon 1

Great Crested grebe 5

Little Egret 4

Waders:

Knot 2,000

Curlew 120 - the majority just resting high up the shore

Knot 500 formed by several small groups.

Redshank 45

Turnstone 25

Looking back at a hazy Heysham Village