Quiet, with very little water at Marshside now....these four Snipe were feeding at the Hesketh Road end of Marshside One.
They were in the three remaining bits of water under the new platform, where Wigeon and Teal manked about in eclipse plumage.
Willow Warbler, Whitethroat and Greater 'Pecker around there too.
Golf Course quiet, a few small groups of Meadow Pipits and hirundines, no dragonflies.
There was a Greenshank on the Sandplant pools, where five more Snipe dropped in.
Small groups of Linnets, Goldfinch and Greenfinch, and from the top of Mount Baker Pete Allen and I had juv Marsh Harrier, Peregrine with prey and distant Grey Plover, Golden Plover, Lapwings etc out on the sands of the estuary.
Parties of Swifts zooming through, but it got so muggy I called it a day at midday and headed for the hills.
Phil Smith had a Yellow Winged Darter in the dunes during the week - keep your eyes peeled if you're down that way!
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
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Hey John,
just managed to read the blog in Kansai airport, Japan! They have free PCs all over the place. Only birds of note are very distant and un id`d.
3 Cormorant sp sat on bouy in river, and 2 Gulls.
See you later.
Marshside birders get everywhere...sincerely hope the far east and antipodes have more birds than the marsh at present...or at least they get a little nearer to you.
Remember the "wisdom" we learnt long ago - "tired of looking through binoculars? Get a better view of the bird by walking closer to it."
Admittedly this maybe difficult from an aeroplane roaring out of Japan, but there you go.
Good birding Neill!
Hi John
Reading in Sweden, where I've had Red Breasted Mergansers, Eider, Greenshank, Cormorants, Nuthatches and Wood and Willow Warblers all by the bucketload just down the road from by bro-in-law's place just south of Gothenburg, plus a Little Ringed Plover and five Golden Plover tonight - snatched moments on a family gathering kind of holiday ...
Japan? Sweden? Where next for Marshside's finest? Yorkshire? (steady on).