Saturday 8 November 2014

Storm force Cliffe

Very blowy with the wind carrying a bite warning of winter to come! Between about 12 noon and 3:30, very occasional raindrops.

On Radar, a lot of Coot, Great Crested and Little Grebes, Mallard, Shoveller, Tufted Duck, Pochard, Teal, Wigeon, Pintail, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew.

Behind Flamingo, a pair of Marsh Harriers (well, one male, one female) the female being mobbed by a small hawk, a merlin maybe.

On Flamingo 1200 or so Dunlin, 2 Little Stint, 50+ Ringed Plover, 40+ Grey Plover, 1 Golden Plover, 6 Curlew, 2 Knot possibly, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, more Coot, Grebes and a few Black-headed Gulls.

I might have seen half a dozen Redshank over Elf, I couldn't be sure. I missed a Raven over Flamingo, while I was concentrating on the BTO curlew/whimbrel video.

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