South shore (Janet)
Pale-bellied Brent goose 35 on Red Nab
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| Some of the Brent coming in to land |
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| Shelduck |
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| Wigeon, Redshank and a Grey Plover |
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| Grey Plover |
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| Curlew and Oystercatcher on the saltmarsh |
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| Moorhen by the pond along the dog walk path |
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| Rabbit hiding amongst the foreshore rocks |
Rock Pipit by the foreshore slipway - Kevin
Heliport area (Howard)
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| Knot and Oystercatcher on the Heliport wall |
Unfortunately another, over zealous, photographer spooked the Knot by approaching too close. Please respect the roosting birds here. In winter they need to be either feeding or resting to conserve energy. Wasting energy can result in failing to keep warm enough overnight, or failing to avoid the next Peregrine attack, both result in death!
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| Fortunately, Howard still managed to read some of the flagged birds. |
Heysham skear (Malcolm)
A check on the rising tide this morning saw.
Pale-bellied Brent Geese 22
Pink-Footed goose 33 to SE
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| Pink-Footed geese in the low morning sun |
Eider 124
Red-breasted Merganser 2
2,000 Knot were lifted off the outer skear by the rising tide. As soon as they were up they were attacked by a pair of Peregrines and all disappeared to the south. Another 500 Knot had been on the middle skear, these remained but were understandably flighty.
A second check this evening again saw the Knot attacked by a Peregrine Falcon. It lifted 2,000 birds that then headed north.
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| This evening's Peregrine was the one with a dislocated talon |
Dunlin 40 seen morning and evening.
Bar-Tailed Godwit 1 this evening.
Other waders as recent
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| One of three Great Crested grebes this evening |
All 35 Brent geese returned to feed around the skear
