Better, well......drier, than expected

Overcast all day, a heavy morning shower, then just the odd light shower. A SW wind.

South shore (Malcolm)

08:45 - 09:45

Saltmarsh to Red Nab and back towards high water.

Linnet 50+ on the saltmarsh 

Wheatear 3 along the foreshore 

A particularly pale Wheatear

Rock Pipit 2 - 1 each foreshore and Red Nab

Shelduck just 2 (more later)

Little Egret 6

Mediterranean gull 3 - 2 adult and a 1st calendar year

1st calendar year Mediterranean gull

Great Black-Backed (top) and lesser Black-Backed gull

14:00 - 15:30

Along the sea wall then foreshore

Shelduck numbers had grown to 20 when I set off, then 42 by the time I got back.

Shelduck

Carrion Crow 39 gathered on the shore

Pink-Footed goose 14 south

These two Little Egret were catching small fish/shrimps. The Black-Headed gull can also see them, but hasn't got the equipment to catch them.

The Egret on the left has caught something 

Shag 1 juvenile on the wooden jetty

Juvenile Shag (right)

Common Sandpiper 1 in the fisherman's wharf on the north side of the harbour.

Mediterranean gull 8 - there were 6 adults and a 2nd calendar year on the feeding beach, then another adult arrived from the north. So minimum 9 total for the day with this morning's 1st calendar year.

Adult Mediterranean gull arriving from the north

2nd calendar year Mediterranean gull 

There were some Sandmason tubes showing, but the worms were not showing themselves for the Meds to catch them. The Oystercatchers were catching the Sandmason worms though. So the Meds turned to thievery! 

Rock Pipit 3 on Red Nab

Wheatear 8 along the foreshore 

Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)

2 Cormorant on main pond

Cetti's warbler singing Central Marsh 

Chiffchaff  on the South side

Loads of Pink-Footed geese over my house, heading south 22:50 - Malcolm