Crow tops the bill again!

A sunny start then overcast later, but it remained dry. A SE wind became quite fresh in the afternoon.

Heysham skear - Malcolm 08:30 - 10:00

The inner skear was almost covered as I started, and a patrolling Peregrine Falcon meant that it was clear of all small waders apart from a handful of Turnstone close to the promenade.

Oystercatcher 3000 

Curlew 15

A barren skear!

I was just heading back when 2500 Knot arrived from the north.

Some began settling on the Sunnyslopes groyne, but soon moved on

They ended up amongst the stones below Heysham Village slipway.
I didn't have much time today, or I would have checked Heysham Head rocks later

Pale-bellied Brent geese 36. They were feeding along the outer rocks from the play area, but there is very little  gutweed here now.

They don't touch the dark wrack, just the green filaments of gutweed 

This section close to the promenade was covered in gutweed a few years ago,
just wrack here this year.

Eider just 1 male drifted in with the tide

Red-breasted Merganser 2 quite a way out.

This Carrion Crow has an Oyster, presumably with still some flesh attached as the Crow wasn't for letting it go.

Male House Sparrow on the Sunnyslopes groyne. Plenty of gutweed here.