Birding today at Holme
I arrived at Holme 7.40am (Sat 7th October), the tide was very high (6.51am - 8.2) and was crashing into the dunes, it was spectacular and wild.
High tide for Sunday 7.34am - 8.5, Monday 8.16am - 8.5 and Tuesday 8.59am - 8.2 if anyone is interested.
Seawatching produced 9 gannets, 9 shelduck going west, shearwater??? at 7.50am going east, 200+ knot, 95 bar tailed godwits, 7 common scooter, 1 grey plover, oystercatchers, sanderling, 1 ringed plover, 24 brent geese going west, 1 greenshank, 2 grey wagtails over dunes and a sparrowhawk. From gorse/elderbushes at Holme Bird Observatory, 1 goldcrest, lots of blue tits, great tits, several coal tits, greenfinches, chaffinches, goldfinches, 2 robins, several wrens. Over marsh: several hundred pink feet, kestrel, 1 little egret. Lots of Red Admirals feeding on blackberries, also 2 commas, and 2 painted ladies. Lots of dragonflies including migrant hawker which I photographed! Lots of skylarks.
Redwell Marsh - 4pm: Several hundred pinkfeet, lots of jackdaws, 37 linnets, 6 teal.
Holme Marsh Reserve - 4.45pm: Several pairs of ruddy duck, 17 grey lags, 19 Egyptian geese, 55 wigeon feeding quite close to hide, and a hare. Lovely sunny day but crap for migrants!!!!!!:girl: