Plenty of Brent, but a bit erratic

A mainly sunny day with just a very light west breeze.

North shore

Pete Crooks checked from Knowlys Rd

70 Pale-bellied Brent Geese – distantly off the children’s play area.
1 male Common Scoter – offshore
1 Grey Plover – among the large numbers of Oystercatcher and Knot on the tidal skears

And from the Battery car park
c.400 Eider drifting south on the ebbing tide
1 Guillemot
10 Red-breasted Merganser (6 males, 4 females)

I checked the skear as it became uncovered (Malcolm) 09:30 - 11:00

Two lots of Pale-Bellied Brent goose flew north 6 and 71, the latter would have been Pete's birds, presumably disturbed, but no idea where they were heading.

Brent geese heading north

Eider 114

I managed a marginally better shot of the Common Scoter today

Great-Crested Grebe 4

Great Crested grebe

Little Egret 4

Oystercatcher 700

Curlew 10

Redshank 150

Turnstone 40

Dunlin 1

Knot 1500 - they were resting on the edge of the skear and didn't move for 30 minutes until a Peregrine Falcon attacked them.

You can see the Peregrine in each of these shots. This attack was unsuccessful 
but all these Knot continued south.

Later 400 Knot arrived to feed, possibly additional, or possibly some returning. I managed to read two new flagged birds for this winter.

Imperial Rd (Malcolm)

I just got out of my car and both Stonechats flew over to "greet" me. I suspect that on one visit I must have flushed a tasty morsel for them, and they were hoping for an encore.

The male rested on this post only 3m away

The female was close too, but I zoomed out to show the location. That's my
car parked just by the blocked entrance 50m from the roundabout.

I was only there two minutes!