A bit of a black and white day

Almost no air movement today, what little there was from the north. Low cloud but dry.

Heysham skear - low water 14:00 (Malcolm)

Pale-bellied goose 46 minimum - I went down early in the tide as the SE skear corner was being exposed. 17 Brent were already there, then two more flocks joined them.

Brent geese coming in to land

You can hear their soft contact calls in this clip. As with most things today, I could have filmed this in black and white, and it wouldn't look much different.

This is the second flock coming in.

Red-breasted Merganser 5

Eider 30

Male Eiders

Great Crested Grebe 8

There are always several Cormorants around. This one shaking its feathers dry

Little Egret 2

Waders pretty much as recent, with the addition of 

Bar-Tailed Godwit 120 along the waterline out from Heysham Head. They arrived from the south in two similar sized flocks and one lot was still there when I was leaving.

Some of the godwits

Location of the godwits along the waterline out from Heysham Head

A check from Knowlys Rd in the afternoon located at least 60 Pale-bellied Brent geese

Janet's, now regular, evening encounter with the Foxes around Meldon Rd