A cold WNW wind, but sunshine all day again (having said that, the sun set at 16:05!)
Ring Necked Parakeet east over shops by Knowlys road yesterday per Dominic Green
South Shore
Wigeon 150+
Shelduck 6
Shelduck |
This next clip is actually from yesterday. It is the Red Nab bird, it had just had a bath and was rearranging its feathers, providing a nice view of its plumage.
The Polish ringed Black-Headed gull now in its sixth calendar year. It has been recorded at Heysham in winter in all of those six years. |
Pale-bellied Brent Geese 31 - there were none on Red Nab when I passed before the tide reached it, although there was, slightly unusually, a flock of 7 heading west at 10:30. Later Tim Woodward saw 31 as late as 15:30, when, as yesterday, the tide would have left the rocks.
Kingfisher 1 - one of its favoured fishing spots is on the edge of the groundwater culvert opening on the sloping wall on Red Nab. I managed to get quite close without it seeing me, and it revealed itself to have a reddening base to its lower mandible. So, it's an it no longer, she's a she!
Kingfisher - the red on the base of its lower bill showing her to be a female |
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