Tuesday 30 July 2013

A dull day.

Before we even set off for the day we had a look at Golden Plover and Dunlin. A quick diversion resulted in a couple of fly over Red-throated Diver. There was no plan of attack so we just followed the road and stopped at a few locations - Common Seal, Common Tern, Black Guillemot, female Hen Harrier, Adder, Golden Eagle and another RT Diver were all seen. We checked a couple of places for waders and scored at one site with a small flock of Dunlin...
...and there were a couple of juveniles in the group.
Northern Wheatears were in good numbers...
...as were the Skylarks.
Other highlights were a single Twite, Greenshank, Crossbill, WT Eagle and Turnstone. We did see a few RB Merganser on the day but there photos were taken the following day. A good brood of 10 chicks...
...and you can see why they haven't been caught - little motorboats!!

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