Thursday, 12 December 2024

Pretty much the same stuff, but still interesting.

Another day of very light north breeze and low cloud.

Heysham skear this afternoon- low water 15:00 (Malcolm)
Pale-bellied Brent goose at least 28 feeding in small groups all across the inner skear. Occasionally a group would fly around, presumably spooked by someone, 28 was the biggest group,I saw flying at one time.
Some of the Brent having a fly around 

Eider 15
Red-breasted Merganser 5
Great Crested grebe 4
Little Egret 4

Oystercatcher, Curlew, Redshank, Knot, Turnstone, Dunlin and Ringed Plover all present in similar numbers to recent.
Bar-Tailed Godwit 21 - 20 rested along the waterline below Heysham Head and a lone bird on the skear.
Bar-Tailed Godwit with Oystercatchers

We are moving back to spring tides now, the outer skear was becoming 
exposed for the first time in a week, and the waders were keener than me
to get out there. Curlew, Bar-Tailed Godwit, Redshank, Oystercatcher
and Knot in this shot

A few of the colour coded Knot were read. This is quite an interesting one from yesterday.
Ringed in the Netherlands April 2019. It was seen at Walney in December 2020.
Then not seen again till February this year back in the Netherlands 
I wonder how many Peregrine attacks it has evaded in that time!

Curlew, Knot and Oystercatcher 


Perhaps why Janet regularly sees foxes in the evening on Meldon road
Highlighted by her head torch



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