Heysham skear 09:30-11:00 (Malcolm)
The ebbing tide was just exposing the skear as I started.
Eider 48
Red-breasted Merganser 6
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| Female Red-breasted Merganser with three displaying males |
Great Crested Grebe 5
Little Egret 3
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| Little Egret |
Sandwich Tern 7 minimum.
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| Sandwich Tern |
They were fishing as they headed north
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| They dive in hard..... |
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| ........and deep! This one watched on by a Great Crested Grebe |
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| Success, it emerges with a small fish |
Tern sp - just a brief distant glimpse of a "darker" Tern.
Oystercatcher 600
Curlew 6
Bar-Tailed Godwit 159 - three flocks, 6, 10, 143
This is the large flock coming in
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| Just a few in summer plumage |
These are some of the 10 feeding along the waterline just south of the skear
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| Just a few of the Redshank |
Knot 3
Dunlin 1
Turnstone 120 - most in smallish flocks flying west
Meadow Pipit 2 north
Sand Martin 4 together north
Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)
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| Common Buzzard |
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| Chiffchaff |
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| Female Speckled Wood |
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| Male Orange Tip |
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