And then there were two

It remained dry with sunny spells till heavy showers began in the afternoon. A light west wind.

Red Nab to Saltmarsh towards morning's high water (Malcolm)

Pale-bellied Brent goose 4

Wigeon 160

Pale-bellied Brent geese and Wigeon

One of the Oystercatcher was ringed as part of an Icelandic ringing scheme.
Details awaited

Another "identifiable" Oystercatcher was this regular with a 
partially leucistic head

Linnet 16 and Reed Bunting 2 at the saltmarsh 

Reed Bunting showing off its tail feathers

Common Snipe 14 flushed by the rising tide

Knot 45 south

Most of the Wigeon moved to the saltmarsh, it was sheltered from wind noise here, so I took a clip to capture the males whistling.

Heysham skear (Malcolm)

I went down as the ebbing tide was exposing the skear this afternoon, unfortunately coinciding with the only heavy showers of the day!

Knot 1 small flock of c40 flying around

Dunlin 2

Little Egret 10

Most of the Little Egret were feeding on the south side of the skear today

Great Crested grebe 5 at least

Eider 3

Pale-bellied Bret goose 4

Dark-bellied Brent goose 2

When I was walking out (it was chucking it down!) there were just 2 pale-bellied and a dark-bellied in the SE skear corner. I had to walk past them then turn around with the rain to my back to get any pictures.

Dark-bellied Brent goose eating sea lettuce

A little later I noticed 2 pale and 1 dark-bellied on the sea,
 and assumed something had spooked them. But seemingly not.

The rain was relentless and so I called it a day, but fortunately I decided to walk back the same way instead of along the north side. In the SE corner now were 2 dark-bellied and 4 pale-bellied.

The two dark-bellied (far left and right) and three of the pale-bellied

The dark-bellied on the left had just seemed to notice the one on the right. It wasn't bothered about the pale-bellied there but was having nothing of the other dark-belled, and charged over to see it off!

These last two shots are poor quality, but they do convey the apparent vitriol
accompanying the attack. The vanquished bird settled 100m away and they both
resumed feeding. I returned home for an early bath!