North shore (Malcolm)
Two checks again, morning on the flood tide and afternoon on the ebb.
It was strange light both visits, the flat sea was silver until the sun broke through this afternoon.
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| Mist rolling over Heysham Head this morning |
Pale-bellied Brent geese 37 was the most seen at one time, but they were scattered all around in small groups.
Pink-Footed goose 45 SE in the afternoon
Eider just 20 in the morning, but an impressive 188 in the afternoon, partly as the flat sea allowed all the distant ones to be counted.
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| Distant Eider on a silver sea |
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| The skear in this afternoon's unusual light - Brent geese in the foreground |
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| Brent geese and Eider after the sun broke through |
Little Egret 2
Oystercatcher 2,500
Curlew 20
Redshank 120 (no shrimps close in today as the sea was so calm)
Knot 2,000 including some new flagged birds.
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| This Knot is part of a scheme based at the Wash, Norfolk - details awaited It is just swallowing a small bivalve mollusc |
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| This Merseyside scheme bird has one of the molluscs in its bill |
Dunlin 44
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| Dunlin |
Turnstone 25
Ringed Plover 4
Grey Plover 1
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| Grey Plover with Knot |
