Overcast all day with light showers. The east wind continues!
Heysham skear - Malcolm 10:00 - 11:15
Whooper Swans 4 (1 adult and 3 immature) flew low to the south. It had just stopped raining and I suspect they had been resting on a sand bar. I was checking out to sea for ducks etc. and didn't see them till they were almost overhead, fortunately I had just unpacked my camera. The adult had a yellow ring, but I couldn't read it.
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| Some of the Brent geese out from St Peter's church |
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| A few were scraping a living on the skear |
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| Red-breasted Merganser pair |
There were very few small waders around.
Oystercatcher 1500
Curlew 25
Redshank 20
Knot just 2 flew overhead briefly
Turnstone 40
Dunlin 1
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| Oystercatcher about to lose a feather |
South shore
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| The adult Shag was showing really well on the nearest platform in the Harbour Kevin Eaves |
These two Eider had been just out from Red Nab, then drifted out beyond the southern recording area boundary. They rested on a rock before moving back to Red Nab with the ebb tide - Mark Jones
This clip taken from Mark's holiday caravan - not a bad view!
Janet spotted this fish on Middleton Nature Reserve. It is quite large c10 inches so possibly dropped by an overly ambitious gull. It could be one of the Rudd-goldfish hybrids from the pond on the dog walk strip. Or possibly a Koi missing from someone's pond. But it does seen a bit like a red Herring!
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