Tuesday, 21 November 2023

21st November 2023

Weather:  N force 4, veering NNE 3,  clear, lake district visible

Eleven hundred Cormorant flew out of the estuary at dawn.

 

Arriving on Middle and finding a Redwing down could have been considered a good omen, but it wasn't.

The only other migrant was a fly over (again on Middle) Goldfinch as the observer was leaving. Three Eider were noted and the 335 Brent Geese included 3 colour ringed birds.

 Six hundred Common Scoter and a Red-breasted Merganser were on the sea, while the waders seen included 5,000 Knot, 60 Ringed Plover, 180 Turnstone but just 2 Purple Sandpipers and a Bar-tailed Godwit. A Grey Heron was about the islands with 4 Little Egret on the incoming afternoon tide.

 
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