Saltmarsh to Red Nab - mid morning (Malcolm)
The same short walk as yesterday morning, but there was a lot more around today.
Jack Snipe 1 accidentally flushed from the edge of the saltmarsh. Don't know why it at the edge, the tide wouldn't have reached the marsh today (it will tomorrow).
Linnet 35 feeding on and resting beside the saltmarsh.
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| Linnet |
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| Reed Bunting |
Blackbird 1 by the saltmarsh
Shelduck 53
Wigeon 150
Pale-belled Brent goose 10 (8 flew north from Red Nab).
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| Eight Brent geese getting ready to leave Red Nab Two more in a freshwater runoff (foreground) |
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| Brent, Wigeon and Shelduck drinking in a freshwater runoff |
Little Egret 4
Grey Heron 1
Heysham skear - low water 15:40 (Malcolm)
Little Egret 15
Grey Heron 1
Great Crested grebe 7
Pale-bellied Brent goose 15. There were 7 amongst the Honeycomb worm "boulders" in the SE corner as I walked out.
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| They were difficult spotting here, and I assumed that I had missed one and that these were the eight I saw earlier - four in this shot, note the abundance of sea lettuce |
When I was walking back along the north side I assumed a group of eight were the same birds.
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| Pale-bellied Brent geese between a couple of Honeycomb worm reefs on the north side |
Then the seven from the SE corner flew over and they all fed together.
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| No chance of locating any flagged Knot this evening. The tides are getting higher and the outer skear was exposed for the first time for over a week. All the Knot were feeding out there and darkness was already descending |
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| The sun was setting again, not as spectacularly as yesterday, but it still marked the time to leave. |
Fog forecast for tomorrow!
