Monday, 19 March 2007

Red Nab, Outfalls & Harbour

Little Gull TWO adult + 1 1st W outfalls & one of adults in harbour later
Kittiwake 3 ad + 1 1st W in harbour
Red-breasted Merganser 2M + 1F off Red Nab
Shag Two juv wooden jetty
Shelduck 10 off Ocean Edge; poor showing compared with recent counts here.
Raven - two of this scarce but slowly increasing visitor over the reserve
Mistle Thrush with food Ocean Edge foreshore (see John's posting for tomorrow)

Elsewhere
10 Whooper Swans still viewable distantly on the Lune floodplain from the A683 at Farleton. Purple Sandpiper still on the Bubbles Groyne, Stone Jetty mid-morning at high tide