First Brent for a while

The light east wind continues. A dry but mainly overcast day.

South shore Red Nab to saltmarsh (MD)

Shelduck c80

Wigeon 25 (almost certainly more beyond Red Nab

Rock Pipit 1 male parachuting over Red Nab

Reed Bunting 2 on saltmarsh - this is a slightly different viewing angle

Middleton Nature Reserve (MD)

Just a quick check of the main ponds on my way home.

Mute Swan, the 5 immature remain on the main pond while the adult pair are on the "no swimming" pond

Mallard 8

Gadwall 14

Teal 2

Coot 5 

Moorhen 6

Cormorant 1

Grey Heron 1 - this clip looks like the Heron is sharpening its bill on a stone. I expect it was just cleaning it.

Little Grebe 3

Jackdaw 10

Heysham skear - low water 16:00 (MD)

Eider c30

Pale-bellied Brent goose 11 - these surprised me, there was none amongst the rocks out from the play area, despite there still being plenty of available food there. They were drifting on the SW tip of the skear, but obviously had been resting on the skear itself. There was no food were they had rested, but they had been feeding somewhere, the area was marked with copious droppings. They drifted towards the SE skear corner.

Brent geese drifting along the southern side of the skear on the rising tide.

Before flying low to the north

Great Crested Grebe 2

Little Egret 2

Waders:

Oystercatcher c1,000

Curlew more than recently c50

Redshank 100+

Turnstone 50+

Common Snipe 2

Dunlin 12

Knot c2,000

A nice shot of the largest Knot flock with the South Lakes as a backdrop 

Footnote: Barn Owl - those of you who read the posts in the evening may have missed the amendment to yesterday's post.  Additional images taken by Ian of the Barn Owl, and a closer check of my images, do indeed makes it look like an escapee with brown ankle straps and short brown jesses.