Heavy rain thoughout the morning, then dry and largely sunny in the afternoon. A NW light wind.
Heysham skear - Malcolm 15:30 - 16:30
I just walked in with the rising tide.
Little Egret 4
Red-breasted Merganser 3 together. I had to take a short clip as I couldn't get a shot with them all showing.
Gulls 550 - 600 there would have been more earlier. The gulls tend to drift off when the tide covers the area they were feeding on. There were still c400 feeding plus at least 150 resting higher up the skear. |
| Four green ringed birds were seen, there is one centre frame here. But this shot is to show that there is now a blanket of seed mussels covering the skear, even at this height up the shore |
Only one new ringed bird was seen and that was another 2nd calendar year Herring gull ringed at the Power Station. That's four seen so far this summer, none were seen here after early autumn last year.
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| Herring gull, back to its roots |
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| The resting gulls higher up the shore were mainly sat, so no chance of checking for rings. Nice view though. |
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| Cormorant |
Oystercatchers are very difficult to estimate at the moment. I think it is mainly down to there being so much readily available food around they are spread all over the skear. I could only account for c500, but as I was almost off the shore c1500 lifted. I think it was just tide related.
Curlew 7
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| Curlew |
Tomorrow's forecast is grim!
