Lots of Knot in the Bay, but they are not feeding here. Plus a dummy duck!

A dry day with a SE wind

South shore 

Pete from Ocean Edge

Duck decoy drifting past the outfalls

Shag 1 sub adult

Malcolm 09:30 - 10:00

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

Pale-bellied Brent goose 10

Brent Geese and Oystercatcher on Red Nab

Shelduck 15

Wigeon 120

Wigeon, Shelduck and Cormorants 

Eider 1 male

Eider 

Little Egret 1

Seven flocks of Knot flew SE towards the River Lune estuary, well over 3000 total number

One of seven Knot flocks, clearly there are plenty still in the bay

There was nothing along the foreshore or around the saltmarsh edges.

Heysham skear - Malcolm 14:15 - 15:45

Pale-bellied Brent goose at least 34, likely including this morning's birds.

Two flew south as I was walking out, there were none close in at first then 32 arrived from the north and fed along the edge of the innermost rocks.

Brent geese landing. That's Oakley Rd in the background 

An hour later they flew out to feed in the SE skear corner

They landed on the sea then swam back to the skear corner, I do like it when they swim towards me.

Eider 139

Red-breasted Merganser 2

Great Crested Grebe 3

Great Crested Grebe

Little Egret 3

Oystercatcher 1500

Curlew 4

Redshank 200

Turnstone 40

Dunlin 30

Knot 2000+ briefly. For most of the time there was just one small feeding group of 100. Then, just as the light was fading at least 500 arrived from somewhere and landed on the south side to freshen up in the brackish water there. By the time I reached them the light was fading quickly, I just began checking them for flags when at least another 1500 landed around them. No chance of seeing any flags now. The closer birds were in the water and the ones behind too densely packed. But it hardly mattered, no sooner had they landed when they all took flight again and headed off to the south.

Knot heading off to the south

Dunlin