Better!

Dry after early morning showers. A very light SE breeze

Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)

Coot up to their antics again

Moorhen

Gadwall pair

Tufted Duck and Mallard - all the above on the main pond

Cormorant leaving the main pond

Long-Tailed Tits

Goldfinch 

Blackbird with a Hawthorn berry

There were five Redwing in the central marsh area

Water Rail 1 calling from the area near the yellow barrier by the golf course 

Heysham Skear (Malcolm) 10:45 - 12:30

Pale-bellied Brent goose 57 - some tried feeding on the skear a couple of times, presumably flushed from the play area rocks, but when the tide was making this group flew to the skear corner to freshen up in the brackish water here.

Eider 2

Red-breasted Merganser 1

Great Crested Grebe 6

Great Crested Grebes

Little Egret 1

No Shag seen but 5 Cormorants 

Oystercatcher 2,000

Curlew 30

Bar-Tailed Godwit 1

Redshank 350, interestingly they were all along the south side, not the north side where the water drains past. Suggesting that that side is still shrimp free.

Knot 2,000 

Turnstone 50

Dunlin 40

Bar-Tailed Godwit, Redshank, Oystercatcher and Dunlin

Redshank and Dunlin in flight

Some of the Knot were flagged, but very difficult seeing them. These
Knot are on one of the flatter areas, even so the only one with its legs
clearly on show is the orange flagged bird next to the Oystercatcher 

It wasn't just the Knot proving a problem. This Oystercatcher with an
orange and yellow ring, will have a coded ring on its other leg. But it
refused to show its other leg. It was stood like this each time I checked,
until one time I checked and it was nowhere to be seen! Definitely an
Icelandic ringed bird, probably the one seen earlier this winter