At RSPB Geltsdale one of the colour ringed male Whinchats perched up nicely on a Marsh Thistle amid a buttercup meadow ... while alarming all the while ...
... and on the nearby Tindale Tarn the lack of rising water levels recently allowed two Common Gulls to fledge this year ...
In the bay to the east of Port Carlisle with the tide receded hundreds of Black-headed Gulls were feeding way out on the mud ... and among them three Avocets - a female and two juveniles ...
... and nearby a hybrid Carrion x Hooded Crow among the dozen or so Carrion Crows ...
Across Moricambe Bay on the edge of Skinburness Marsh a male Common Scoter lingered ...
... and way out at Anthorn on the Wampool bend a little group of birds comprised a Little Egret, Black-headed Gull, several Redshanks and a single Greenshank ...
