Pleasant as the warm sun was today, Marshside didn't hold too many surprises.
The Golf Course had a few Goldcrest, a Greater Pecker and titmouse flocks, while a few thousand Pinkies were grazing and tootling about.
A single Avocet was on Polly's Pool.
The moonscape of the Sandplant Compound held Meadow Pipits, Blackbirds, Goldcrest, Robin and Blue Tits and a steady trickle of Mipits and Skylarks was going on overhead - visible migration in the sun!
Merlin and Little Egret on the Outer Marsh, and I believe there were still two Curlew Sands up at Crossens Outer.
There were more Migrant Hawkers and Common Darters about than you could shake a stick at, with plenty of Speckled Woods and a few Small Tortoiseshells.
Earlier Graham Clarkson had led a guided walk and shown visitors ringtail Hen Harrier and Marsh Harrier on the outer marsh, but I left him pulling faces at the van radio as another black derby day loomed for Everton.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
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28.09.08 Marshside: 8 pale bellied Brent Geese on beach opposite Hesketh Road.
Juvenile Greenland Wheatear Sunday morning and Red Squirrel at Old Formby Tip.
Hi John,
Greetings from sunny Sandwich Bay.
I really enjoy reading your blog and keeping up-to-date with the the goings-on in West Lancs.
I was up at Martin Mere on Saturday and was wondering if any of the Martin Mere regulars had any news about the juvenile Peregrine that ditched in the mud on Vinson's on Saturday afternoon and eventually managed to drag itself across and out onto the bank completely sodden in mud.
Regards,
Rob