Shag numbers increasing

Some very light rain during the morning, then heavy and prolonged showers from late morning. A SE wind.

These shots from Middleton Nature Reserve yesterday, by Rosemary and Peter Silvester.

Migrant Hawker

Common Darters

Common Bluetail

Common Blue

Speckled Wood

South shore (Malcolm) 09:30 - 11:15

This Great Black-Backed gull has a flatfish, the Carrion Crows and other gulls hoping for a stray titbit.

Rock Pipit 2

Rock Pipit on the sloping sea wall

Redshank and Turnstones

Shag 5 juveniles on the wooden jetty.

Three on the shore side of the old lighthouse 

Two beyond the lighthouse, just one in this shot

Full frontal and profile views

Cormorants and Shag on the wooden jetty

We are quickly moving to spring tides, the tidal surge today was really powerful!

One of the two buoys out from the north wall had been dragged under 
the surface, the other showing the force of the tide out there

The dredger had to head on a collision course to the roundhead.......

........but the force of the tide pushed it safely past

Grey Seal 3. All three were near No.1 outfall, this one towards the seaward end.

The other two were quite close to the sea wall

Unusual to see two together like this. The nearest is a female (dark spots
on a pale skin). The other suggests a male, but if so, far from fully grown.
Seal pups are independent from their mother just after they are weaned so
this is unlikely to be the female's youngster.

Just out of the recording area Potts Corner, early afternoon 

Juvenile Curlew Sandpiper on the dropping tide (and pouring rain)