Knot there!

A dry and often sunny day. A light variable breeze.

North shore:

Pale-bellied Brent goose 37 - David Kaye

I checked on the shore on the rising tide (Malcolm)

There were no Knot along the waterline this morning. A couple of Peregrines turned up and set about the Redshank higher up the shore. The commotion spooked the Brent.

Some of the Brent geese

This clip shows the Brent circling away, but it is really about the Peregrine, you can hear them calling above my head.

The sky was quite pearlescent as the sun was breaking through.
These are 27 Pink-Footed geese heading north. 2 others flew south

Eider 30

Oystercatcher 1,000 - many more were along the waterline to the south of Heysham Head

Curlew 20

Redshank 120

Knot - none were moved off the skear by the tide. A small group of 60 were briefly along the waterline.

Unusually for such a small group it included 2 Dutch ringed birds

1,500 Knot were seen distantly flying to the south, then later a group of 400 landed amongst the rocks below the Sunnyslopes groyne.

Turnstone 35

Turnstone 

Dunlin 30

Dunlin

Howard checked the Heliport, but that too was devoid of Knot today.

This lovely shot is from Thursday when 4,000 Knot roosted at the Heliport 

It's nice to see such large numbers, and that is the whole point of these flagging
schemes. To identify locations and habitats critical to the birds, so that they can be
protected for future generations. Generations of birds, and people to enjoy them.
You can imagine the difficulty of checking this crowd for any flagged birds.
But you can see a Dutch scheme bird stood on the wall.

Howard did find today's roost, just beyond the recording area on the marsh at Middleton Sands.

c3,000 Knot coming in to land on Middleton marsh