Some recovery news

After a largely sunny morning, rain showers began at lunchtime. A variable light west(ish) wind.

This is the colour coded Oystercatcher seen on Red Nab 16/11/24
It was ringed as a breeding adult in Iceland in 2023 and has previously 
not been seen outside Iceland 

All sightings 

These are the scheme manager's comments:

First sighting of this bird outside Iceland. There were high hatching success of oiks at the golf course in Selfoss but almost no fledging success. This bird had two chicks but very likely both were lost.

We have received some of the histories of the Knot seen on the south shore
on Wednesday. This one was ringed as at least a 2cy bird 8/05/24 at Ainsdale
Beach, Merseyside on 21/08/24 it was sighted at Friesland in the Netherlands.

Heysham skear - low water 10:00 (Malcolm)

Pale-bellied Brent goose 15 in the SE skear corner.

Looking back towards Knowlys Rd, the brent along the waterline 

Eider 4

Creat Crested grebe just 1 seen

Little Egret 4

I'd gone out to see if the Knot were feeding there again, about 1,000 were. I managed to read three new flagged birds.

One of very few nice clear views of a flagged Knot

Dunlin 20+ mingling with the Knot

Oystercatcher 1,500

Curlew 15

Turnstone 50

Redshank 40

Ringed Plover 4

Beautiful view 1 of many!

17:00 a large sounding skein of Pink Footed geese south over my house (Malcolm)

Storm Bert arrives tomorrow, unfortunately he looks to be blowing in the wrong direction!