Too Nice For Anything Else!

The weather yesterday was too nice to be doing anything else, and although I'm not usually a weekend birder, KT only had to utter the words....'are you not out birding today'....and I was off like a shot.

 Red-crested Pochard. Howard Stockdale.

Although the immature drake Scaup was on show again on the canal basin at Glasson Dock along with 3 Pochard, there was no sign of the female RCP. Noted on the Lune Estuary, 5 Bewick's Swan included 2 juvenile, 28 Goldeneye counted, 32 Black-tailed Godwit, and estimates of 550 Golden Plover, 200 Knot, and a Little Egret. 

Bewick's Swan. Howard Stockdale.

At Conder Green, 7 Goldeneye, 42 Teal, 36 Wigeon, and a Goosander were all on Conder Pool. Two Spotted Redshank were in the creeks, I failed to count the Teal in the creeks here but c.200 Wigeon were in the Conder Estuary channel, 2 Little Egret were on the marsh, and 3 Meadow Pipit noted.

Snow Bunting. Howard Stockdale. 

I noted just 7 Greenfinch, a Little Egret, and a Kestrel at Cockersands where I barely had an hours daylight left by the time I got there and failed to find any Snow Buntings again despite speaking to a birder earlier in the afternoon who had.

Little Grebe.

I counted 12 Little Grebe seen in the area yesterday, with 6 on the Lune Estuary, 5 at Conder Green, and one on the canal basin. 

Thanks to HS for his trio of excellent images, the drake Red-crested Pochard, the ten Cockersands Bewick's Swan, and the Cockersands Snow Bunting. And by way of a change, the non-bird header of a Red Squirrel with my thanks to Paul Foster.