Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)
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Mallard drake |
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Gadwall pair |
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Grey Heron |
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Goldfinch |
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Wren |
South shore (Janet)
Jack Snipe 1 lifted from the saltmarsh, but landed again along its edge.
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Jack Snipe |
Pale-bellied Brent goose 27
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Pale-bellied Brent geese |
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Curlew on the saltmarsh |
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Wigeon on the saltmarsh |
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Some of the regular Oystercatcher that feed on Ocean Edge grass |
On Red Nab
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Cormorants |
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Redshank |
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Turnstone |
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Rock Pipit, first record for a while |
North shore (Malcolm)
Two checks, the first in the morning as the skear was being covered by the tide.
Pink-Footed goose 43 south
Pale-bellied Brent goose 22 south (these would have formed part of the 27 seen later by Janet)
Little Egret 1 - first for a while here
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The waders were spooking each other as the quickly incoming spring tide pushed them up the shore |
Oystercatcher 2,000
Knot 1,300
Redshank 150
Turnstone 60
Curlew 80
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Curlew and Oystercatcher, this shot taken from the promenade |
Several of this morning's Knot were flagged, but it was very difficult getting close enough to read them without spooking the already flighty waders. Still at least one new bird for this winter was read. A second look in the quickly fading evening light, as the skear became exposed again, saw 400 Knot and again including at least one new one for this winter.
Also this evening
Eider 140
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Waders, Eider and gulls |
Red-breasted Merganser 3
Just out of the recording area (Malcolm) - Sunny slopes near the groyne (the northern limit for terrestrial birds is as seen from Knowlys Rd, this would be just out of sight).
Stonechat 1 female type 09:45 - feeding just above the small wall that separates the promenade from the sunny slopes.
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