Heavy overnight rain again, but it eased off by late morning. The sun came out by lunchtime and remained largely sunny for the remainder of the day. The fresh wind was WNW all day.
I just had time for a short check of Red Nab at high water (10:10), it was still raining heavily at that time (MD).
Pale-bellied Brent goose 47 - the clip below shows 41 coming in, the smaller birds in flight are Wigeon. A little later another 6 Brent flew in from the south.
Wigeon c150
No Shelduck today
Rock Pipit 2
I didn't get a chance to get out again until low water (17:00), so I checked out the skear in the light of the setting sun.
Pale-bellied Brent goose 38 (almost certainly many from this morning's count) - there was one group of 13 in the SE corner, with smaller groups from 2 to 5 swimming and flying around the skear, but by low water they had all made their way to the SE corner. Most were still searching for scraps of weed. The sun was setting behind me, providing both nice lighting and rendering me invisible to the birds, so I took this clip of the activity, apart from the Brent, there are: Oystercatcher, Redshank, Curlew, Little Egret and Black-headed gulls (Turnstone, Knot and Dunlin were just out of frame)
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| Two Pale-bellied Brent and an Oystercatcher Flying over a sea of Oystercatchers |
Eider 100+ they normally dive to feed but these were browsing the bottom in shallow water. Not sure what they are feeding on.
It was such a pleasant evening, I called in to Middleton Nature Reserve on the way home, to see if the Jackdaw were still roosting there. At 17:30 there were c40 Jackdaw milling around, but no more by 17:45, when they all moved off to the east. So presumably the main roost has moved east, more towards the recycling centre.
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