Many birds disappointed by the lack of shrimps

Another dry and mainly sunny day with a light SE wind

Howard checked at high water this morning 

Pale-bellied Brent goose 27 counted out from the play area, before they flew over to the skeer as the tide was dropping.

Still plenty of gutweed to feed on here

There were no Knot roosting at the heliport or any of the groynes, but c1000 were on Heysham Head rocks.

Heysham skear - Malcolm 12:00 - 14:00

Pale-bellied Brent goose 8 flew north

Brent geese heading north, below are some of 300+ Black-Headed gulls hoping to
feast on shrimps, but an onshore wind is best for shrimps here, and they quickly left

Pink Footed goose 62 SE

Some of the Pink-Footed geese. The bird second from the left has a trailing leg. It was like this in all the shots.

Better a broken leg than a broken wing

Eider 35

Oystercatcher 1500

Curlew 1 today!

Curlew

Redshank 130

Turnstone 40

Knot 1400, presumably the 1000 that roosted on Heysham Head rocks plus a few more. Most just rested

Some had a half hearted go at shrimping

By the time I left all the Knot had moved off to the north

The forecast is for offshore winds for the rest of the month. But it also forecast that this week would be wet! So hopefully we will get some more onshore winds.

Just out of the recording area - Teal Bay groyne - Howard

No Knot, but there was this leucistic Oystercatcher