....finishing with a raptor.

Rather than walk from Cockersands on Tuesday I decided to drive - and be guilty of polluting the atmosphere even more - to Cockerham Marsh where a good wander along the marsh edge resulted in finding 3 Yellow Wagtail, seen as two brilliant adult and a juvenile. A further wander past Bank End Farm to view the Cocker channel produced a 1st winter Mediterranean Gull and 5 Little Egret. 

The Lune Estuary at Glasson Dock held nothing of any major significance, though at least 2,000 Lapwing sounds like something of a contradiction of 'nothing'. Also noted in view from the bowling green, c.90 Golden Plover, 120 Curlew, 80 Redshank, 2 Goosander, and 2 Little Egret.

On Conder Pool, 10 Little Grebe and the Great-crested Grebe seen again. In the creeks, 3 Greenshank, a Spotted Redshank and Common Sandpiper, the single lingering Black-tailed Godwit, and 2 Grey Wagtail.

For a bigger commotion 'clik the pik'.

As I was about to leave, a commotion and a large number of gulls in the air above Conder Green, plus a call from a hawk-eyed birder looking up....

Osprey Warren Baker  

....had an Osprey circling and gaining height all the time before drifting off south....Wonderful stuff.

Red Admiral Marc Heath 

A Red Admiral in the Bank End area was the only butterfly I noted on the day.

Thanks to Warren and Marc for the posts excellent images.