Saturday 23 February 2013

20th to 23rd February 2013


Flock of Knot at the north end

23rd February :- 3 Red-throated Divers, 25 Great Crested Grebes, 1 Little Egret, 2,00 Knot at Little Eye and 200 on the main island, 13 Purple Sandpipers. (DB,JE)     photos JE

Purple Sandpipers
22nd February :- good flypasts of a pair of Goosanders east, 2 Mute Swans south east and 2 drake Eiders north. Still 185 Brent present including 1 dark-bellied bird, a flock of 110 Sanderling, 380 Curlew on the east hoyle bank,10 Common Scoter, 15 Great Crested Grebes, 65 Turnstone and 45 Redshank.
 (DB,CJW et al)
20th February :- 1 Dark-bellied Brent, 3 Robins + 1 on Middle, 1 Red-breasted Merganser. (DB,AAB,AS)

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