GOD JUL
OG
GODT
NYTTÅR
The above is the traditional Scandinavian Christmas and New Year greeting. It comes from Jim Wilson who manages the schemes covering the Icelandic and Norwegian flagged Knot. Jim lives above the Arctic circle in Norway, he also sent this
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| We lost the sun here on 6 December, but are compensated by the Northern Lights here with moon and stars. Sadly no snow, the temperature is +6c crazy for so far north. |
It was also 6°C here today, but felt cooler in the biting east wind.
Heysham skear - Malcolm 08:30 - 10:00
I managed to go out further on the skear than I have for some while today, much of the area is desolate.
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| This area on the middle skear is normally like that in the bottom right corner |
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| Instead the surface is stripped away exposing the stones that form the skear base. You can see by the lack of erosion on these stones that they are rarely exposed like this. I can't recall it being exposed to this degree before. Not many feeding opportunities here! |
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| Further out is similar, but some of the rocks are bigger! |
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| It was a beautiful morning, the rising sun making everything rosy for a while |
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| Knot in flight with Honeycomb worm reefs behind |
Oystercatcher 1500
Curlew 35
Redshank 60
Knot 1000+ as I was walking out a flock of c1000 was snaking its way south. I didn't see them land and as I walked around, there were only several small groups scattered about totalling 300.
Turnstone 40
Dunlin 15
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| Dunlin |
Pale-bellied Brent goose 38 at least
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| Some of the Brent geese on the north side. The bird at the rear has a white ring. One to watch out for. |
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| Some of the Brent geese in the SE skear corner |
Eider 6 flew north
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| Three pairs of Eider |
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| The card created by Howard, the sentiment from all in the Observation team |
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