A fresh NW wind. It did really well not to rain today, it threatened to all day. Surprisingly cold, the warmest point in the day was 12.5°C, and that was at midnight!
South shore (Malcolm)
Just a walk along the sea wall mid morning on the rising tide.
There were lots of, mainly large, gulls feeding on both outflows. Clearly plenty of food was coming through, hopefully they will attract something different. This is No.1 outflow.
Osprey 1 - all the Power Station gulls lifted and looking up it was high above me. There was no obvious white showing as it was in silhouette and it wasn't immediately obvious that it was an Osprey.
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| Gull mobbing a very dark looking Osprey (the gull also looking dark) |
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| Its white features becoming more obvious as it moved away |
It was in no rush to move on and did a couple of circuits around the Power Stations before continuing north.
Linnet 3 between lighthouse and waterfall
Rock Pipit 1 displaying between the outflows.
North shore (Malcolm)
Once again I checked the inner skear rocks as the ebbing tide was exposing them.
Sanderling 55 minimum. It was quite frantic today, the birds were very mobile and it wasn't easy avoiding duplication, 55 was the most I could account for any one time. And right from the start small groups were heading off into the NW wind. Within 30 minutes they had all moved on and most of the skear still to be exposed.
These are some coming in with a single Knot.
31 in this clip, and a Dunlin at the end.
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| One of the small groups regularly heading off to NW |
Oystercatcher 500
Knot 1
Dunlin 2
Bar-Tailed Godwit 21 heading NW
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| Some of the Bar-Tailed Godwit passing through |
Eider 45
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| Eider framed by the South Lakes |
Little Egret 2
