Got down to the marsh this morning for just after 8.30am, when it was nice and bright still.....plenty of fresh plumaged Meadow Pipits around the Sandplant, even I managed to get some reasonable shots of 'em.
The Sandplant and Mount Baker rose majestic in the early morning light.....
...and there plenty of Skylarks and Pied Wagtails going through. A few Grey Wags called and small groups of Pink Feet passed overhead, coming inland from the estuary.
Graham Clarkson counted a few thousand coming in at first light (when I was still stumbling about Dempsey Towers).
A fine male Stonechat perched up around the lorry road out onto the estuary, and small groups of corvids were coming down from the north - mainly Carrion Crows, but one or two Jackdaws, and plenty of Magpies.
Good numbers of pinkies came over all morning, but the Lapwings and Golden Plover in front of the Sandgrounders hide were spooked by this juv Marsh Harrier, which came in low on the inland side before going high and getting mobbed by the time I got my camera out.
A Merlin was perched up out past Polly's Creek.
Finch flocks are building with good nos of Linnets on Marshside 1, and Gringos and Goldfinches around the Sandplant.
Goldcrests and a phylly (I couldn't see it), where round the Sandplant compound, I think the latter sounded more like a Chiffy, and down at Nels a juv Curlew Sandpiper was in with the Redshanks and wildfowl briefly before jiggering off.
Not a bad morning all told, the northerly wind made things feel really autumnal, time to dig out yer thermals...
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies.....
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