Not bad, but nothing new.

A dry day with a light north wind, that switched to a westerly in the evening.

South shore (Janet)

Rock Pipit still displaying along the foreshore 

In the Nature Park 

Chiffchaff

Honey Bee

North shore 

Howard checked the Heliport area around high water.

There were fewer Knot today  c1500 favouring the grass once more, only disturbance was via the corvids which allowed a couple of inflight grab shots.

This is the first record for this Knot which was flagged in Merseyside 08/05/24

I checked the skear twice, once this morning as it was being covered and again this afternoon when it was uncovering again (Malcolm).

Pale-bellied Brent goose 24 this morning, and at least as many scattered around this afternoon. With all yesterday's rain, the freshwater runoffs on the skear were gushing. These are some of this afternoon's Brent freshening up.

Eider 26

Red-breasted Merganser 9

Male Red-breasted Merganser coming in to land

Great Crested Grebe 2

Oystercatcher 1,500

Curlew 30

Curlew, probing its long bill under something 

Redshank 250

Knot 600 moved off the skear this morning and didn't feed on the mud shore. c1,500 eventually turned up this evening. At least one new flagged bird for this winter seen. Unfortunately the switch of the wind from north to west this afternoon came too late to provide a shrimping opportunity for the waders, other than in the draining pools. Forecast back to NE wind for tomorrow which also won't provide.

Dunlin 30

Turnstone 60

It gets busy as the tide starts to uncover the feeding areas.
Brent goose, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Knot and Turnstone all looking for a meal.
You can see some quite lush gutweed the Brent is feeding on. There are small
pockets like this all around, and why the Brent are feeding in small groups