Weather: SW force 2
The estuary was both dark and misty this morning, setting up for a interesting day. The Pink-footed geese excelled themselves this morning with a passage out of the estuary calculated at 8,000 birds, presumably some of these had been wintering elsewhere.Two Canada Geese flew east over Hilbre followed by another 8 that landed briefly on te east hoyle.The surprise goose was a Bar-headed Goose that was seen and heard over Middle and after some uncertainty headed eastwards.
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Four Goosander were also here and the Brent remain around the 20 mark for now. As well as the pair of Eider, an adult male passed the north end during a sea watch, while other sea records were 3 Red-throated Divers, 12 Great Crested Grebes, 28 Guillemots.
Amongst the terns were 8 Sandwich , 2 Common Terns and 22 Gannets, some floating on the sea..
A Greenshank, scarce at Hilbre, was heard calling on the ebb tide and was finally spotted on the esat side of the gutter before flying south (record shot in gutter).
A second bird was on the east hoyle shore late afternoon.when 2 Bar-tailed Godwit were also seen along with 5 Harbour Porpoise. Three Whimbrel arrived today,
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and some of the 194 Curlew were departing,
Some 1,200 Dunlin were around the island. Among the passerines, 5 Wheatear were here
and 3 Blackcaps were present today after the first yesterday
Six Chiffchaff and 7 Willow Warbler and a Goldcrest was the best warbler arrival so far, nine new swallows of spring arrived, but reminders of early spring were 2 Skylarks, 2 Woodpigeons.and 12 Goldfinches.
Ringed: Chiffchaff 6, Willow Warvbler 4, Blackcap 3, Wren 1, Goldcrest 1, Linnet 4, Goldfinch 1, Sisikin 1
Photos JE, AS,
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