Very light NNE winds. Mainly overcast.
Middleton Nature Reserve
Visible migration and ringing report from Jean:
A much quieter day. There was still a trickle of migrants but nothing like the Redwing rush of yesterday.
Vis 0730-1030 NE F1-2 part cloudy with an occasional light shower
Redwing 74 N
Fieldfare 3 N
Song Thrush 1
Mistle Thrush 1 E
Canada goose 2 N with
Barnacle Goose 1 (might be a “fence hopper”)
Teal 8 E
Snipe
Grey Wagtail 2
Chaffinch 11 (20 at Heysham NR)
Bullfinch 2 SE
Siskin 1+
Lesser Redpoll 1
Jackdaw 59 S
Skylark 2 N
Starling 6 S
Ringing was equally slow but there was quality rather than quantity:
Grey Wagtail 1, Redwing 7, Blackbird 1, Reed Bunting 5, Lesser Redpoll 2, Chiffchaff 2, Goldcrest 1, Chaffinch 1, Great Tit 1, Wren 1 retrap
Saltmarsh area high water 10:50
The tides have now quickly swung to spring tides. Some very high tides over the next four days.
Mediterranean gull 1 adult flushed by the tide and flew off east.
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| This is what you get when you photograph a white bird against a white sky. |
If you manage to find a bit of undisturbed shore, not easy, the birds sit out high water.
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| Two Grey Plover on east side of saltmarsh |
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| Juvenile Cormorant on foreshore |
Heysham skeer - low water 17:45
Great Crested Grebe 8
Red-Breasted Merganser 7
Turnstone c40
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| I can't decide what this one is eating. |
Knot c 2,500
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| Some of the Knot murmurating |
It was a beautiful sunset
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| Sunset over the wind farm, I suppose it is the 21st century's equivalent of "Sunset over the gasworks". |
