Monday, 17 January 2022

17th January 22

 Weather:  NE force 0/1

 A brief visit on a very calm sunny afternoon recorded a good crop of sea birds in the flat calm conditions. There were about 3,500 Common Scoter out in Liverpool bay and 16 Red-throated Divers, 35 Guillemots and 125 Great Crested Grebes were also noted out to sea through a telescope.

Among the waders were a single Sanderling and Bar-tailed Godwit,


 while in more numbers were Ringed Plover (65)


and 148 Curlew, 85 Turnstone, 85 Grey Plover and 6 Purple Sandpipers. Gulls featured with 18 Great-black Backs, 1,200 Herring, 125 Common and 350 Black-headed. Forty eight Shelduck were counted and also 453 Brent (3 dark-bellied). the marine lake was an attraction to the visitors and also to 14 Goosanders

Photos SRW

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