Brent enjoy a leisurely meal

Another warm sunny day with an east wind.

Middleton Nature Reserve 

Janet watched this young Great Black-backed gull diving several times from height into the main pond.

She wondered what it was after.....

.......turned out to be just weed! It is too young to need nesting material
but perhaps its instinct is to collect it at this time of year. Although it did eat
some, so possibly there are enough invertebrates mixed in with the weed to 
justify the effort.

South shore (Malcolm)

Just a short evening check from Red Nab to the saltmarsh towards high water.

Swallow 2 in/off together

15 Brent geese on Red Nab. They all appeared to be Pale-bellied

Pale-bellied Brent geese

The gutweed has grown quickly with the warm weather and the lack of grazers (typically 250 Wigeon over winter). The Brent were spread out and feeding quietly, with no bickering. These are some of them.

Just one Wigeon remained

Wigeon

Curlew and Oystercatcher 

One of three Little Egret

Along the foreshore 

Pied Wagtail
2 other Pied or White Wagtail in/off and continued north

Wheatear 3

Wheatear

Nothing on the saltmarsh except.......

........a lone Redshank

c100 large waders on the distant waterline, most of them at least Curlew.