Wednesday 29 August 2012

Experimental photography


Heysham today.

Ocean Edge/Red Nab medium high tide
Grey Plover - 223
Bar-tailed Godwit - 270
Dunlin - 320
Ringed Plover - 32
Knot - 295
Oystercatcher - 5,650
Curlew - 52
Redshank - 480
Whimbrel - 1
Turnstone - 13 (+105 on wooden jetty)
Med Gull - 4 juvs, 2 ads, 2 2CY (& 2 juv, 1 Ad north wall area)
Little Gull - adult

Last night's Middleton Swallow roost
About 450 in the roost but did not arrive en masse until about 2015hrs and roosted in the more sheltered reed bed next to the gate in the western marsh.  Plenty of Sand Martin calls heard and 4/73 birds in the net were this species despite no tape. Just 3 adult Swallows ringed.