Poor weather this morning with heavy rain.
It dried up a bit late morning, but Soil Hill was lost to low cloud.
I had a try for BS's Siskin seen earlier this morning at Ogden but failed to locate them.
It was wet and windy to start but I was blessed by a short interlude of fairly dry stuff where I could carry the camera without covering it.
It remained very gloomy throughout, not helping the quality, of the mostly distant, photos.
Birds:-
The usual smaller birds in low numbers seen along the way.
C70 Small Gulls with 2 Sub-adult larger Gulls and an adult Herring Gull.
Treecreeper seen with others calling.
A Sparrowhawk was being mobbed by a Gull flew high to leave > NW.
A pair of Oystercatchers zoomed over the water calling > N to loop around again.
One landed for a minute below the promenade before leaving > N.
I lost sight of the other one.
Just after the Oky left a large black bird flew high, with very quick wing beats - North.
It must be a Cormorant ... but it's passing coincided with a one-note high call which appeared to come from this bird - the call obviously not from a Cormorant - lots of Gulls about so it could just be a call from one of the Gulls.
It has a wedge shaped tail outline in one of the photos which probably confirms that it's a Cormorant.
It was good to see an early Wader - a sign of better times ahead.
Nice to get the early Oyc's John. Can't think anything other than Cormorant !
ReplyDeleteOystercatcher 2 months earlier than my 1st sighting last year.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if we have had them arrive in December?
Yes - I think it's a Cormorant - not much else in could be really.
John