Can't keep up with all this birding and blogging, though it hasn't completely taken over my life it's certainly closing in on it....The risk of divorce on the grounds of desertion creeps ever nearer!
Anyhow, better late than never, a quick look in on Conder Pool and the Lune Estuary at Glasson, as I wanted to spend some quality time around the tide at Cockersand, so here's Monday's notable birds.....
A Little Grebe and 26 Tufted Duck were just about the sum total on Conder Pool. With the south side still with it's head above the tide, the Lune Estuary held c.550 Golden Plover, 110 Curlew, 3 Snipe, 3 Goosander drake, and 2 Goldeneye drake. Around 40 Goldfinch were in flight, a Merlin perched on driftwood on Colloway Marsh couldn't possibly ever fail to excite, and c.350 Pink-footed Geese flying towards Aldcliffe Marsh I found odd, I wouldn't have expected any movement northwards into this area until Jan/Feb. In a field on Jeremy Lane, 125 Curlew, 92 Black-tailed Godwit, 80 Redshank, and a lone Golden Plover.
At Crook Cottage, I noted a few Tree Sparrow with House Sparrow and 12 Greenfinch. I watched a total of 28 Snipe come off the marsh, and Plover Scar held c.350 Oystercatcher, 38 Turnstone, and 2 Grey Plover, with 450 Wigeon, 18 Eider, 3 Red-breasted Merganser off here.
At least 2 Twite were with up to 45 Linnet in the rough field behind Bank House Cottage, and in the field north of Bank Houses, 9 Stock Dove, also 12 Skylark which would have probably proved to have been more given some time and effort on my part, 10 Meadow Pipit were over Slack Lane.
Of 2 Kestrel seen, one was at Bank Houses, the other Lighthouse Cottage, both were female.
On Tuesday I did the Lancaster - Glasson coastal path trek, but as is this post that one's running late, like the train I went to catch the other day.
Anyhow, better late than never, a quick look in on Conder Pool and the Lune Estuary at Glasson, as I wanted to spend some quality time around the tide at Cockersand, so here's Monday's notable birds.....
A Little Grebe and 26 Tufted Duck were just about the sum total on Conder Pool. With the south side still with it's head above the tide, the Lune Estuary held c.550 Golden Plover, 110 Curlew, 3 Snipe, 3 Goosander drake, and 2 Goldeneye drake. Around 40 Goldfinch were in flight, a Merlin perched on driftwood on Colloway Marsh couldn't possibly ever fail to excite, and c.350 Pink-footed Geese flying towards Aldcliffe Marsh I found odd, I wouldn't have expected any movement northwards into this area until Jan/Feb. In a field on Jeremy Lane, 125 Curlew, 92 Black-tailed Godwit, 80 Redshank, and a lone Golden Plover.
Grey Plover. Pete Woodruff.
At Crook Cottage, I noted a few Tree Sparrow with House Sparrow and 12 Greenfinch. I watched a total of 28 Snipe come off the marsh, and Plover Scar held c.350 Oystercatcher, 38 Turnstone, and 2 Grey Plover, with 450 Wigeon, 18 Eider, 3 Red-breasted Merganser off here.
At least 2 Twite were with up to 45 Linnet in the rough field behind Bank House Cottage, and in the field north of Bank Houses, 9 Stock Dove, also 12 Skylark which would have probably proved to have been more given some time and effort on my part, 10 Meadow Pipit were over Slack Lane.
Kestrel. Pete Woodruff.
Of 2 Kestrel seen, one was at Bank Houses, the other Lighthouse Cottage, both were female.
On Tuesday I did the Lancaster - Glasson coastal path trek, but as is this post that one's running late, like the train I went to catch the other day.
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