Spare Time!

Mediterranean Gull off Broadway Morecambe.

If you're going to have a couple of hours to spare at Morecambe and you want to be called a birder then you need to be sure you have some optics on you. I decided to cover as much of the promenade as I could in this two hour spare time and noted the following over the tide and even managing a half decent pic into the bargain.

At Teal Bay I counted at least 125 Black-tailed Godwit on the groyne and 7 Wigeon were of note as they don't appear here in the same numbers as yesteryear. Off Broadway an adult Mediterranean Gull and 2 Scaup female were excellent, also seen from here were at least 12 Great-crested Grebe, and in the area between here and the Town Hall slipway 160 Eider, 7 Goldeneye, and 5 Red-breasted Merganser.

Green-backed Kingfisher. Indonesia 2006.

And a couple of 'Golden Oldie Images' from Mike Watson above, and from Colin Bushell below. Thanks Mike and Colin.

 

 Plumbeous Kite. Peru 2006.

I have it on good and reliable authority that the wintering Common Sandpiper at Conder Green was seen there again on Monday, and 2 Song Thrush are still visiting our humble walled garden in Lancaster, an excellent record I assure you.

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