Heysham skeer - low water 10:00 (MD)
Long-Tailed Duck 2 female/immature - yesterday, Pete managed a brief view of 2 - 3 small ducks feeding a long way out across the bay, they could have only have been this species. Later Foulney reported 3. So this morning I was looking out for them, and dropped lucky!
I was on the skeer and saw two small ducks flying around near the green marker post. Too distant to check details with my x10 binoculars so immediately used my camera set at x30 to video them. Just as well, they didn't come any closer.
I lost focus twice in the clip so split it into two sections
At the end of this second clip they were heading west, I lose focus here and cannot relocate them with my binoculars, presumably they continued west out into the bay. They were flying very quickly!These are some stills, zoomed in from the videos.
Red-breasted Merganser 9
Great Crested grebe 8
Eider not counted, but looked similar to yesterday
Pale-bellied Brent goose 12 - I was pleased with these, yesterday I posted a picture showing that some of the isolated pools amongst the honeycomb worm beds still held reasonable amounts of sea lettuce.
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| Today all 12 were feeding in one of them |
Middleton Nature Reserve (JP)
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| Lesser Redpoll - quite early movement |
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| Brown Rat - it's not just the birds that take advantage Of the seeds left by visitors |
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| Two Canada geese on the main pond |
Finally, Kevin took advantage of today's remarkable visibility to take these images from the lighthouse area on the south wall:
The visibility today was exceptional and, by tweaking the contrast, I was able to show the mountains of Snowdonia (the highest one being Carnedd Llewellyn, I think) quite clearly.
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| You can even make out some detail on the left |
Also some shots across the bay:
Scafell Pike (you can make out the submit cairn) |
Piel Castle 
BEA Systems building 
the Hoad Monument near Ulverston 
the shipyards in Barrow
All the above photographed with Kevin's small lens camera!
