Heysham skear - low water 08:50 (Malcolm)
Pale-bellied Brent goose 37 at least, some in the SE skear corner, others feeding on the skear. Although recent heavy grazing has significantly reduced the easily available gut weed and there is very little sea lettuce left.
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| Some of the brent in the skear corner |
Pink-Footed goose 2 flying low to the south
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| Pink Footed geese |
Oystercatcher, Curlew, Redshank, Turnstone and Ringed Plover as recent.
Dunlin flock of 30 plus 2 inshore with the plovers.
Knot 700 in one very flighty flock. There were a few colour coded birds, but only one new one seen.
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| Some of the Knot with a Merseyside ringed bird centre |
No Eider, Merganser or Grebes seen today.
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| Yesterday, this planet shone in the evening sky as I was finishing watching the Stock Doves. This was before any stars were visible. My first thought was that it was Venus, then I remembered - Venus doesn't have any moons. |
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| Kevin Eaves identified it as Jupiter and a little later took this slightly sharper image through his telescope, and kindly identified the visible moons. As they say.....the truth is out there |
