Brent numbers steadily increasing

Overnight frost followed by a dry largely sunny day. Almost no air movement till after lunch then a very light SE breeze.

Heysham skear - low water 16:00 (Malcolm)

Pale-bellied Brent goose 25 

Brent geese flying low over the skear

Having a stretch

There is currently plenty of food to go round here, but they can't help arguing!

Eider 5

Common Scoter 5

Common Scoter with Eider behind

Great Crested grebe 8

Great Crested grebes

Knot 1,000+ included colour coded birds from UK, Holland and Iceland based schemes.

One of the Dutch scheme's Knot

A UK flagged Knot

Other waders as recent

Peregrine Falcon, just one visit, presumably successful as it then flew off to the north

Quite a bit of evening movement of Pink-Footed goose, at least 5 skeins between 17:00 and 17:15.